THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
125-Thin Lizzy-The Boys Are Back in Town.
1976-Number 8 single.
Best Bit-At 2.00.’Lock up your daughters.’
Thin Lizzy were formed in Dublin.Ireland in 1969 by Phil Lynott(1949-1986) and Brian Downey. Lynott was born in West Bromwich,Staffordshire,England but grew up in Dublin,he is one of Ireland’s most celebrated artists with a statue in Dublin erected in his memory in 2005.His later years were dogged by drug and alcohol dependency leading to his collapse on Christmas Day 1985,he died of pneumonia and heart failure due to septicaemia ten days later,he was 36.
There are many theories regarding the inspiration behind ‘The Boys Are Back in Town,’although none have been verified,The most likely is the one about the ‘Quality Street Gang.’Lynott’s mother Philomena was the proprietor of the Clifton Grange Hotel,Manchester in the 1970’s where many known criminals operating in the Manchester area would congregate,it has also been claimed that the ‘Gang’ had ties with organised football hooliganism connected to Manchester United.On a lighter note it is said that the ‘Gang’ were named after the Quality Street confectionery because most of the gang members were overweight.
‘Guess who just got back today,them wild eyed boys that had been away.’
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