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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 - Live And Dangerous - EX - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £25.00, $33.25, €29.25 (New Item) (arrived 17-Apr-2025 16:00)on April 18, 2025 at 2:14 pm
THIN LIZZY Live & Dangerous (Classic 1978 UK 17-track double LP with Vertigo 'spaceship' labels, regarded as one of the best rock live albums ever, including storming renditions of Jailbreak, Rosalie, Don't Believe A Word & the superb Emerald.Complete with the photo montage inners, the gatefold picture sleeve is Excellent with minor shelf/edge wear & the vinyl is clean & in Excellent condition with little play)
- Thin Lizzy - Shades Of A Blue Orphanage - 2nd - UK - vinyl LP - £150.00, $199.50, €175.50 (Back In Stock) (arrived 11-Apr-2025 16:00)on April 18, 2025 at 2:14 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 moderate general wear & the vinyl appears barely played TXS108)
- Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak - 1st - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £45.00, $59.85, €52.65 (New Item) (arrived 10-Apr-2025 11:39)on April 18, 2025 at 2:14 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 Town and the title track. The die-cut internal pocket gatefold picture sleeve [illustrated by Jim Fitzpatrick] shows light edge / shelfwear especially to back cover, though the vinyl is in excellent condition with faint hairlines as the onlysigns of lightplay)
- Thin Lizzy - 1979 Tour - UK - tour programme - £25.00, $33.25, €29.25 (New Item) (arrived 10-Apr-2025 11:41)on April 18, 2025 at 2:14 pm
THIN LIZZY 1979 Tour (Official 1979 UK 36 page tour programme featuring their Approved Biography with band time line and early images of the band members, individual biographies including Gary Moore and some great photographs from around the world)
- Thin Lizzy - Nightlife - Spaceship Label - Matt - UK - vinyl LP - £25.00, $33.25, €29.25 (New Item) (arrived 10-Apr-2025 15:03)on April 18, 2025 at 2:14 pm
THIN LIZZY Nightlife (1974 UK Vertigo 'spaceship' label 10-track vinyl LP, the fourth studio album by the Irish rockers including She Knows and Still In Love With You, matt picture sleeve. The sleeve shows light wear and the vinyl is Near Mint)
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.