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Given they were rightly lauded as one of the single finest live rock ‘n’ roll bands of their era, any opportunity we get to cast our eyes over previously unseen live footage of Thin Lizzy is one we take gratefully.
Imagine our delight, then, when we stumbled across this extremely rare, pro-shot footage taken from the 1981 part of Lizzy’s Chinatown tour, which shows the band – magnetic singer/bassist Phil Lynott, guitarists Scott Gorham and Snowy White and drummer Brian Downey – smash through a number of classics taken from the Chinatown album during a show in France in 1981.
The set – filmed at the Pavillon Baltard in Nogent-sur-Marne, a suburb of Paris, on January 18, 1981, shows the band in typically fine form, with a sweat-drenched Lynott ever the focus point as he preens, poses and points his bass at anyone in front of him.
Four Chinatown cuts are played – Killer On The Loose, We Will Be Strong, Genocide and, finally, the thunderous title track, guitar duels and all. It makes for an electric watch, given a touch of endearing roughness courtesy of its evident transfer from VHS.
Chinatown, the tenth album by Thin Lizzy, was released in October 1980, reaching number 7 in the UK album charts and introducing guitarist Snowy White to the fold. He would only play on one more studio album, 1981’s Renegade, before being replaced by John Sykes for Thin Lizzy’s final record, Thunder And Lightning, in 1983.
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- Thin Lizzy - Johnny The Fox - EX - US - vinyl LP - £15.00, $19.35, €18.00 (New Item) (arrived 03-Mar-2025 17:00)on March 6, 2025 at 4:13 pm
THIN LIZZY Johnny The Fox (1976 US 10-track vinyl LP, the seventh album and follow-up to the classic Jailbreak, including Don't Believe A Word, Massacre and Johnny The Fox Meets Jimmy The Weed. The picture sleeve was designed by the band's regular artist from the period Jim Fitzpatrick and has a deletion cut corner and also comes with the album credits inner. The sleeve has some minor wear and, aside from a few very light paper scuffs, the vinyl is in Excellent condition SRM-1-1119)
- Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak - 1st - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £45.00, $58.05, €54.00 (Back In Stock) (arrived 24-Feb-2025 17:00)on March 6, 2025 at 4:13 pm
THIN LIZZY Jailbreak (1976 UK first issue 'spaceship' label 9-track vinyl LP with the 'Tich And Quackers' & 'Manchester United' matrix etchings, the sixth studio album from the Irish hard rockers', including the classic hits The Boys Are Back In Townand the title track. The die-cut internal pocket gatefold picture sleeve [illustrated by Jim Fitzpatrick] shows minimal edge / shelfwear especially to back cover, though the vinyl is in excellent condition with faint hairlines as the only signs of lightplay)
- Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak - 1st - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £45.00, $58.05, €54.00 (New Item) (arrived 23-Feb-2025 10:54)on March 6, 2025 at 4:13 pm
THIN LIZZY Jailbreak (1976 UK first issue 'spaceship' label 9-track vinyl LP with the 'Tich And Quackers' & 'Manchester United' matrix etchings, the sixth studio album from the Irish hard rockers', including the classic hits The Boys Are Back In Townand the title track. The die-cut internal pocket gatefold picture sleeve [illustrated by Jim Fitzpatrick] shows minimal edge / shelfwear especially to back cover, though the vinyl is in excellent condition with faint hairlines as the only signs of lightplay)
- Thin Lizzy - Shades Of A Blue Orphanage - 2nd - VG Sleeve - UK - vinyl LP - £95.00, $122.55, €114.00 (New Item) (arrived 23-Feb-2025 12:57)on March 6, 2025 at 4:13 pm
THIN LIZZY Shades Of A Blue Orphanage (1975 second issue of the 1972 UK 9-track vinyl LP on the petrol blue 'boxed' Decca label, with the album title named after the musicians' previous bands [Bell's Shades of Blue & Lynott & Downey's Orphanage], matt gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve shows some noticable shelfwear with an indentation mark near the spine whilst the vinyl however displays minimal signs of play TXS108)
- Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation + Inner - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £20.00, $25.80, €24.00 (New Item) (arrived 23-Feb-2025 15:25)on March 6, 2025 at 4:13 pm
THIN LIZZY Bad Reputation (1977 UK 9-track vinyl LP, a brilliant album that demonstrates the excellent, and rather underrated, drumming of Brian Downey and some great songwriting including Opium Trail, Dancing In The Moonlight and arguably oneof the band's finest, the classic title track, picture sleeve with picture inner. The sleeve has some shelfwear to the edges, whilst the vinyl is Excellent with a few cosmetic surface scuffs or hairlines to show just light play...but who doesn'tspin this banger! - Overall Excellent copy of this highly recommended outing)
This film footage has been available for many years on the bootleg DVD titled “TV Appearances 1981-83”. I must have had it for 20 years.
Also sadly not live.
Music from studio albums and crowd noise from other source.