LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 4, 2019…SAD DAY ON THIS DATE IN 1986. PHIL LYNOTT OF THIN LIZZY PASSED AWAY AT THE AGE OF 36. LYNOTT WAS THE FOUNDING MEMBER OF THIN LIZZY, AS WELL AS IT’S MAIN SONGWRITER, SINGER AND BASS PLAYER.
IN THE LATE 70’S EARLY 1980’S LYNOTT LEFT THIN LIZZY AND SUFFERED FROM DRUG RELATED PROBLEMS, PARTICULARLY HEROIN. ON XMAS DAY 1985, HIS MOTHER DISCOVERED HIM COMATOSE. HIS GIRLFRIEND KNEW HE WAS ON HEROIN, AND TOOK HIM TO A DRUG CLINIC, AND HE WAS THEN TRANSFERRED TO A HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH SEPTICAEMIA. HE RECOVERED ENOUGH TO BE PUT ON A VENTILATOR, BUT DIED DAYS LATER AT THE AGE OF 36. THE OFFICIAL CAUSE OF DEATH WAS ‘MULTIPLE INTERNAL ABSCESSES CAUSING BLOOD POISONING LEADING TO KIDNEY, LIVER, AND HEART FAILURE’.
THE STATUE OF PHIL LYNOTT WAS ERECTED IN 2005 ON GRAFTON STREET IN DUBLIN TO COMMEMORATE THE IRISH MUSICIAN.
HERE’S THIN LIZZY FROM A TELEVISION APPEARANCE IN THE 70’S.
THE GREATNESS OF THIN LIZZY AND PHIL LYNOTT ON DISPLAY WITH THIS FULL CONCERT FROM 1983.
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