I have never ready any books about Thin Lizzy before and this had very
good reviews so I decided to pick it up. I will say straight away that this is
an excellent book but a very sad story as well. It is a very honest account of
a very talented man’s inability to escape the destructive path of hard
drugs. Anyway, it is not really about
Thin Lizzy. The book goes into some depth about some of the records but it is
really about Phil; his songs, his lyrics-poetry, his family, life and drug
problems.
The book is basically chronological and takes you from his earliest
days as a child growing up black in nearly completely white Ireland! He never gave a fuck though and thought of
himself as being Irish and was really into it as well, the history, the life,
everything.. I learned a lot about both
Phil and Thin Lizzy and also how terrible it can be when you don’t seek help
for your drug addictions and it eventually kills you. I am still surprised that
none of the management, band, friends ever forced him to seek professional
help. He was a tough guy but no one wanted to stand up and help him until it
was too late and he was dying. Great
book but you might cry as it was a sad and tragic end for this great rock and
roller..
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