![]() ![]() Fighting brought a harder edge to the proceedings, which ultimately coalesced with the more memorable tunes they wrote with Lynott on Jailbreak. Jailbreak's influence on hard rock and metal is immense, to the point now where lazy PR writers will call any band that harmonizes guitars "Lizzy-esque." Gorham and Robertson had played together in Thin Lizzy since the Nightlife album, but those songs were more subdued and could almost be classified as soft rock. all of that and more was distilled into 36 minutes of pure magic. Label pressure, other bands getting heavier, Phil Lynott's growth as a songwriter, the legendary Scott Gorham/Brian Robertson twin-guitar attack in peak form. Not just the right moment, but Thin Lizzy's last moment Jailbreak was the band's sixth album, and Vertigo Records was ready to write them off after the lackluster sales of previous releases Nightlife and Fighting. It's not their best album - this writer would bestow that title on either Bad Reputation or Black Rose, depending on the day - but it was a perfect storm of singular musicianship, Irish balladeering and populist songwriting that hit at the right moment. would still be just another classic rock almost-was. Yet if it wasn't for the American commercial breakthrough of Jailbreak, which was released 40 years ago tomorrow, Lynott & Co. That's a good thing along with Blue Oyster Cult, they've been the perennial "most overlooked/underappreciated" rock band of the '70s. ![]() Plenty of ink, digital and otherwise, has been spilled about Thin Lizzy over the last decade. ![]()
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