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Life (Thin Lizzy album)

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Released
  
16 October 1983

Artist
  
Thin Lizzy

Producer
  
Phil Lynott

Length
  
97:47

Release date
  
16 October 1983

Label
  
Vertigo Records

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Recorded
  
1981, 1983 (Hammersmith Odeon)

Life (1983)
  
The Boys Are Back in Town Live in Australia (1999)

Genres
  
Rock music, Hard rock, Heavy metal, Blues rock

Similar
  
Thin Lizzy albums, Heavy metal albums

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Life (subtitled Live, and labelled Life:Live on the original vinyl LP editions) is a double live album by Irish band Thin Lizzy, released in 1983. This double album was recorded during their farewell tour in 1983, principally at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, UK. Phil Lynott had felt reluctantly that it was time to disband the group after the 1983 tour and to mark the occasion, former Thin Lizzy guitarists Eric Bell (1969–73), Brian Robertson (1974–78) and Gary Moore (1974, 1977 and 1978–79) joined the band on stage at the end of these gigs to do some numbers. This was called "The All-Star Jam".

Contents

The versions of "Renegade", "Hollywood" and "Killer on the Loose" featuring Snowy White had been performed two years earlier when he was still with the band. White's participation was only credited to "Renegade".

Lynott describes the slower tempo version of "Don't Believe a Word" as being the original arrangement. A version of the song with the slower arrangement appears on Moore's Back on the Streets album from 1978, with Lynott on bass guitar and lead vocals and Brian Downey on drums.

During the performance of "The Rocker", all of the guitarists (except for White) played at the same time (Moore, John Sykes, Scott Gorham, Robertson and Bell), making a total of eight members on stage performing at once (including keyboard player Darren Wharton).

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Disc one

  1. "Thunder and Lightning" (Brian Downey, Phil Lynott) – 5:11
  2. "Waiting for an Alibi" (Lynott) – 3:17
  3. "Jailbreak" (Lynott) – 4:08
  4. "Baby Please Don't Go" (Lynott) – 5:02
  5. "The Holy War" (Lynott) – 4:53
  6. "Renegade" (Lynott, Snowy White) – 5:45
  7. "Hollywood (Down on Your Luck)" (Scott Gorham, Lynott) – 4:10
  8. "Got to Give It Up" (Gorham, Lynott) – 7:04
  9. "Angel of Death" (Lynott, Darren Wharton) – 5:56
  10. "Are You Ready" (Downey, Gorham, Lynott, Brian Robertson) – 3:00

Disc two

  1. "The Boys Are Back in Town" (Lynott) – 4:53
  2. "Cold Sweat" (Lynott, John Sykes) – 3:08
  3. "Don't Believe a Word" (Lynott) – 5:12
  4. "Killer on the Loose" (Lynott) – 5:00
  5. "The Sun Goes Down" (Lynott, Wharton) – 6:45
  6. "Emerald" (Downey, Gorham, Lynott, Robertson) – 3:27
  7. "Black Rose" (Lynott, Gary Moore) – 6:40
  8. "Still in Love With You" (Lynott) – 9:00
  9. "The Rocker" (Eric Bell, Downey, Lynott) – 4:47

Personnel

  • Phil Lynott – bass guitar, vocals
  • Scott Gorham – guitars
  • John Sykes – guitars, backing vocals (some editions of the CD release mistakenly credit Sykes with lead vocals)
  • Brian Downey – drums, percussion
  • Darren Wharton – keyboards, backing vocals

    • Additional musicians:

  • Eric Bell – guitar on "The Rocker"
  • Gary Moore – guitar on "Black Rose" and "The Rocker"
  • Brian Robertson – guitar on "Emerald" and "The Rocker"
  • Snowy White – guitar on "Renegade", "Hollywood" and "Killer on the Loose"

    • Songs

    1Thunder & Lightning5:11
    2Waiting for an Alibi3:16
    3Jailbreak4:08

    References

    Life (Thin Lizzy album) Wikipedia
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