Cowboy Song: The Authorized Biography of Thin Lizzy's Philip Lynott Thomson GraemePaperback
Cowboy Song: The Authorized Biography of Thin Lizzy's Philip Lynott Thomson GraemePaperback Philip Lynott packed a vast amount into his 36 years. The mixed-race child of a Catholic teenager and a…
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Cowboy Song: The Authorized Biography of Thin Lizzy's Philip Lynott Thomson GraemePaperback
Philip Lynott packed a vast amount into his 36 years. The mixed-race child of a Catholic teenager and a Guyanese stowaway, Lynott rose above daunting obstacles and wounding abandonments.Cowboy Song analyzes his unsettled childhood; musical apprenticeship; key alliances with the poets, painters and folkies of 1960s Dublin; stardom with Thin Lizzy and drug-induced decline. An instantly identifiable singer, charismatic stage performer and supremely gifted songwriter, the guiding spirit of Thin Lizzy combined the instincts of a wild man with the soul of a poet.The first biography written with the cooperation of the Lynott Estate, Cowboy Song explores the fascinating contradictions between Lynott's unbridled rock star excesses and the shy, sensitive "orphan" raised in working-class Dublin.
It examines the unique blend of cultural influences which informed Lynott's