“The Boys Are Back In Town” is a single from Irish hard rock band Thin Lizzy. The song came out in 1976 on their album “Jailbreak”. It was honored with the 499th position among Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In March 2005, Q magazine placed “The Boys Are Back In Town” at number 38 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band who formed in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969. The two founding members, drummer Brian Downey and bass guitarist/vocalist Phil Lynott met each other while still in school. Lynott, with an engaging and charismatic personality, took up the role of frontman and speaker for the band and led them throughout their recording career of thirteen studio albums. After Lynott died on 4 January 1986 of heart failure and pneumonia related to his years of drug and alcohol dependency at the age of 36, various incarnations of the band have emerged over the years. Thin Lizzy’s leader, Lynott was composer or co-composer of almost all their songs. He was one of the few black men to achieve commercial success in hard rock, and was the first black Irishman to do so. As well as being multiracial, the band drew their members not only from both sides of the Irish border but also from both the Catholic and Protestant communities. Their music reflects a wide range of influences, including country music, psychedelic rock, Irish music and traditional Irish folk music, but is generally classified as hard rock or sometimes …
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