Episode #225 | 3.11.25

Thin Lizzy: Gangsters, Drugs, Punks, and St. Patrick

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In this episode

What made the band Thin Lizzy different from your standard 1970s rock and punk? Crime, that’s what. The criminals who populated Phil Lynott’s mother’s bar and the stories they told that influenced the songs Phil wrote. That and a harmonized guitar.

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Sources

Cowboy Song: The Authorized Biography of Thin Lizzy’s Philip Lynott, by Graeme Thomson

Phil Lynott: Songs for While I’m Away (2020, dir. Emer Reynolds)

Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott in 10 revealing stories (Goldmine)

The rise and fall of Thin Lizzy: ‘No one was going to be sitting in the shadows with this band’ (The Guardian)

The Manchester gangsters that inspired an iconic rock song (The Manc)

So Alone: The Johnny Thunders Story (Louder)

Disgraceland is a podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. It melds music history, true crime and transgressive fiction. Disgraceland is not journalism. Disgraceland is entertainment. Entertainment inspired by true events. However, certain scenes, characters and names are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes.