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A new animated video for Thin Lizzy's classic Jailbreak has been launched
By Fraser Lewry published
The Jailbreak video coincides with new mixes of Thin Lizzy's 1976 albums Jailbreak and Johnny The Fox, and a Classic Rock cover story

Inside Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak and the campaign to break America - only in the new Classic Rock
By Siân Llewellyn published
Also in this issue: Motörhead, Jerry Cantrell, Jon Anderson, The Cold Stares, Fleetwood Mac, Terrorvision, Michael Schenker, Idles, The Hot Damn!, Bad Religion, Paul Gilbert and more

On the road with Thin Lizzy in Europe and America in the late 1970s
By Harry Doherty published
Thin Lizzy hit their stride between 1977 and 1979 – and journalist Harry Doherty had a front row seat for their American tours

A tribute to Phil Lynott, by the guitarists who played alongside him
By Dave Ling published
Phil Lynott's bandmates share their memories of their late, lamented, but inimitable frontman Philip Lynott

For years Thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham kept his art secret, but all is now revealed
By Dave Ling published
It can only be a matter of time before a band commissions Scott Gorham to produce their album artwork

Thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham once encouraged Adrian Smith to front Iron Maiden
By Paul Brannigan published
In 1997, Scott Gorham suggested that Adrian Smith should rejoin Iron Maiden in place of Blaze Bayley

The first and last lyrics sung on record by 20 legendary bands
By Dave Everley published
From The Beatles and Bowie to Freddie Mercury and Kurt Cobain and, these are the first and last lines sung on record by rock’s biggest bands

"People in Dublin thought we'd made it and were living like kings. Little did they know": Thin Lizzy and the struggle of Vagabonds Of The Western World
By James McNair published
It was on Thin Lizzy's third album, Vagabonds Of The Western World, that "you really get to hear Phil the poet", says drummer Brian Downey

"I came home from school and learned all the sounds, and learned all the songs note for note. I could just relate to it somehow": How the blues galvanised Gary Moore
By Siân Llewellyn published
Heavily influenced by the 60s boom, Thin Lizzy’s perennially under-rated guitarist Gary Moore would take blues rock to the next level and beyond
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