Thin Lizzy

On Friday's installment of the Power 96 Cool One, I featured a band made up of members from the most recent Thin Lizzy line-up who recorded a new album as the Black Star Riders. The tune I chose was "The Killer Instinct," which is the title track of their sophomore attempt, released on February 20 of this year...

The bassist played his final performance with Thin Lizzy on Sept. 4, 1983.

Last Friday's Power 96 Cool One came from Thin Lizzy. I picked the track "Waiting for an Alibi," their first single from their Black Rose: A Rock Legend album released in 1979. This is the only studio album featuring the work of blues rock guitarist Gary Moore, and it managed to make it to No...

Rock history is full of stories about songs that only became hit records after a few strange twists of fate — a rich tradition that apparently includes Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back in Town."

Last Friday's Power 96 Cool One came from a former Thin Lizzy guitarist, Gary Moore, off one of his many solo works, 1987's Wild Frontier. The title track is one of my favorite Gary Moore tunes, so I decided to use that as my Cool One. Although it charted well in Europe and Australia, it failed to make onto the charts in the U...