Whenever we’re discussing lead-off tracks with Black Star Riders, I always say, ‘Don’t listen to me – I’m the one who thought ‘The Boys Are Back In Town’ shouldn’t have been a single!’”Īfter releasing their second album last year, Black Star Riders are on their European tour and will be coming to the Dublin’s 3Arena on December 3rd. 272 on the 2021 edition of the '500 Greatest Songs of All Time' list. It is considered by Rolling Stone to be the band's best song, placing it at No. Thin Lizzy // Live and Dangerous // The Boys Are Back In Town.Rainbow Theater // London // 1977.I do not claim any ownership or copyright of this video.Warne. The song was originally released in 1976 as the first single from their album Jailbreak. Lyrics and music composed by Philip Parris Lynott. In his new venture with Black Star Riders Gorham is wary that he doesn’t want to make the same mistake again “It shows you how thin the line can be that separates success from failure. ' The Boys Are Back in Town ' is a song by Irish hard rock band Thin Lizzy. The Boys Are Back In Town is a song by Thin Lizzy from the album Jailbreak. Gorham revealed that it was one of a number of songs they had to choose from ““We recorded 15 songs, and of the 10 we picked, that wasn’t one of them”, It turns out it was management that were the ones that eventually convinced them ” Management heard it and said, ‘No, there’s something really good about this song.’ Although back then, it didn’t yet have the twin guitar parts on it.” Back then you picked 10 songs and went with those because of the time restrictions of vinyl”. When Men At Work wrote their 1982 hit, Down Under, little did they know that it would become a worldwide smash. Speaking to Classic Rock, Gorham spoke about how it almost didn’t make it on “To tell you the truth, we weren’t initially going to put ‘The Boys Are Back In Town’ on the Jailbreak album at all.
According to legendary Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham, they didn’t really think it was that great at the time. Thin Lizzy’s biggest hit by far is the classic rock anthem ‘The Boys Are Back In Town’, apparently though it was never actually meant to be on their iconic 6th album Jailbreak.
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