An unsentimental look at Ireland’s first rock star
Lynott loved to seduce but was afraid of intimacy
Biography: Cowboy Song: The Authorised Biography of Philip Lynott; By Graeme Thomson; Constable, €20
‘I’m black, I’m Irish and I’m a bastard – if I don’t make it as a singer I’m never going to make it.” We all know that Phil Lynott made it, not only as a singer, but also as one of rock music’s quintessential, classic legends, but the tragedy of his chosen career (and his life) was that the ...