Phil Lynott

I don't know if you'll necessarily get it right on the day because, you know, shipping dates are a little bit crazy.

But Phil Lynott, we played a lot of Phil Lynott on CFNY, those solo records, and a bunch of Thin Lizzy back catalog stuff too.

So 40 years after his death, there is an eight CD box set, Phil Lynott called The Story of My Life.

And it has both of his... 1980 solo album, Solo in Soho, the Phil Leonard album, along with remixes, rare demos, alternate versions, and a bunch of other stuff.

Also coming, The Mission, God's Own Medicine, Children, and Carved in Sand on vinyl.

It's kind of a fail, Nightlife, produced by Ron Nevison.

This is actually produced by Phil Lynott and quite well.

And now the big change becomes fruitful and it turns out to be really good.

Scorpions Entranced, same sort of thing.

Yeah

... and Phil Lynott, it, it brought me straight back.

Yeah.

Yeah.

An old man hobbled into Clarence Street Church, lit a candle for his wife.

Window cleaners, market stalls, Bewley's brass rails.

Someone said they spotted Philo, that the boys are back in town.

But the heart still beats in the winding lanes.

What? 50, yeah.

Two days ago for Philo and the Boys.

Don't believe me if I tell you Especially if I tell you I'm in love with you Don't believe me if I tell you That I wrote this song for you That just might be some other silly pretty girl I'm singing to Don't believe a word For words are so easily spoken And your heart is just like that crop Cause words can tell lies And lies are no company When there's tears in your eyes Don't believe me if I tell you Not a word of this is true Don't believe me if I tell you Especially if I tell you That I'm in love with you Don't believe a word No, don't believe a word Don't believe it, don't believe it Not a single word

Well, hey, whoa, didn't realise that was that short.

The Timeless Sound of Thin Lizzy, still amazing, half a century later.

That was Don't Believe a Word of Johnny the Fox, released 16th of October 1976.

And that was originally written by Philo as a bluesy 12-bar, much slower song.

You can hear that version on Gary Moore's Back on the Streets album, which came out two years after Johnny the Fox in 1978.

He was a pioneering record executive who fundamentally transformed the landscape of post-war American music.

After he immigrated to Chicago in 1928, he and his brother Phil initially managed a series of neighborhood bars and jazz nightclubs, most notably the Macomba Lounge.

Recognizing a growing market for electric urban music, Leonard Chess invested in Aristocrat Records in 1947.

By 1950, the brothers assumed full control of the label and renamed it Chess Records, which became a cornerstone of Chicago blues, R&B, and early rock and roll by signing and developing artists like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, and Etta James.

Unfortunately, Leonard Chess' life came to an abrupt end in the autumn of 1969.

Just a few months after selling his namesake record label to General Recorded Tape, otherwise known as GRT, he sold it for $6.5 million, which, trust me, that's an awful lot of money, especially for back in 1969.

He was an operatic tenor who is considered to be the definitive mid-century interpreter of Verdi's Othello.

George Liberace passed away in 1983 at the age of 72 from leukemia.