Record Store Day 22 Phil Lynott Album 40th Anniversary Ltd Edition White Vinyl
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Record Store Day 22 Phil Lynott Album 40th Anniversary Ltd Edition White Vinyl.
To mark Record Store Day in 2022 and the 40th Anniversary ofits original release, Universal Music Catalogue are reissuing Thin Lizzy singerPhil Lynott's 1982 solo album ‘The Philip Lynott Album' on LP for the veryfirst time, on limited edition white vinyl. ‘The Philip Lynott Album' has beennewly mastered for 180 gm vinyl at Abbey Road Studios, and is housed in aneye-catching black and gold sleeve reproducing the original artwork. Originallyreleased in September 1982, ‘The Philip Lynott Album' was the singer's secondsolo venture, following on from 'Solo In Soho' two years earlier. It wasrecorded and released between Thin Lizzy's eleventh and twelfth studio albums'Renegade' (1981) and 'Thunder And Lightning' (1983). This 40th anniversaryvinyl release adds the 1981 remix of 'Yellow Pearl'; a No. 14 hit in January'82, it was co-written with Midge Ure of Ultravox and used as the theme musicfor Top of the Pops between 1981 and 1986, but omitted from the original UK LPand cassette versions. Two further singles - 'Together' and 'Old Town' - werealso taken from the album. In addition to Midge, the line-up on 'The PhilipLynott Album' includes his Ultravox band mate Rusty Egan, plus Thin Lizzymembers Scott Gorham, Snowy White, Gary Moore and Brian Downey. Two of thetracks - 'Old Town' and 'Ode To Liberty (The Protest Song)' - were co-writtenby Phil and Jimmy Bain, bass player with Rock bands Dio and Rainbow (andperhaps more surprisingly, on Kate Bush's 1981 single 'Sat In Your Lap'). MarkKnopfler adds guitar to 'King's Call' and Huey Lewis plays harmonica on 'Tattoo(Giving It All Up For Love)' and 'Ode To A Black Man'. Phil Lynott was afounding member, singer and bass player with Thin Lizzy, who had fifteen UK Top40 singles and fourteen Top 40 albums between 1973 and 2020. He had a furtherfour Top 40 solo singles, including the 1985 No. 5 'Out In The Fields', acollaboration with guitarist Gary Moore. He was also the singer on Moore's 1979No. 8 single 'Parisienne Walkways'. Phil featured on the best-selling 1978concept album 'Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of the Worlds', playing (andsinging) the role of Parson Nathaniel. The following year Phil, along with ThinLizzy's Brian Downey and Scott Gorham, collaborated with the Sex Pistols' PaulCook and Steve Jones, releasing the No. 28 Christmas single 'A Merry Jingle'under the name The Greedies. Phil died in Januray 1986, and is commemorated bya bronze statue, erected in 2005 on Harry Street in his home town of Dublin.
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