180g Vinyl Reissue!
Johnny the Fox is the seventh studio album by Irish band Thin Lizzy, released in 1976. This album was written and recorded while bassist/vocalist Phil Lynott was recovering from a sickness that put him off the road halfway through the previous Jailbreak tour. The group recorded the album in Munich at Musicland Studios following his release from the hospital. "Don't Believe a Word" was a British hit single.
Thin Lizzy are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1969. Two of the founding members, drummer Brian Downey and bass guitarist and vocalist Phil Lynott, met while still in school. Lynott assumed the role of frontman and led them throughout their recording career of twelve studio albums. Thin Lizzy's most successful songs, "Whiskey in the Jar," "Jailbreak," and "The Boys Are Back in Town," were all major international hits which are still played regularly on hard rock and classic rock radio stations. After Lynott's death in 1986, various incarnations of the band have emerged over the years based initially around guitarists Scott Gorham and John Sykes, though Sykes left the band in 2009. Gorham later continued with a new line-up including Downey.
"All the same strengths are still here -- the band still sounds as thunderous as a force of nature, Phil Lynott's writing is still graced with elegant turns of phrase, his singing is still soulful and seductive." -Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com
Features:
180g Vinyl
Musicians:
Philip Lynott, bass, vocals
Brian Downey, drums
Scott Gorham, guitar
Brian Robertson, guitar
Selections:
Side One:
1. Johnny
2. Rocky
3. Borderline
4. Don't Believe a Word
5. Fools Gold
Side Two:
1. Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed
2. Old Flame
3. Massacre
4. Sweet Marie
5. Boogie Woogie Dance
Johnny the Fox is the seventh studio album by Irish band Thin Lizzy, released in 1976. This album was written and recorded while bassist/vocalist Phil Lynott was recovering from a sickness that put him off the road halfway through the previous Jailbreak tour. The group recorded the album in Munich at Musicland Studios following his release from the hospital. "Don't Believe a Word" was a British hit single.
Thin Lizzy are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1969. Two of the founding members, drummer Brian Downey and bass guitarist and vocalist Phil Lynott, met while still in school. Lynott assumed the role of frontman and led them throughout their recording career of twelve studio albums. Thin Lizzy's most successful songs, "Whiskey in the Jar," "Jailbreak," and "The Boys Are Back in Town," were all major international hits which are still played regularly on hard rock and classic rock radio stations. After Lynott's death in 1986, various incarnations of the band have emerged over the years based initially around guitarists Scott Gorham and John Sykes, though Sykes left the band in 2009. Gorham later continued with a new line-up including Downey.
"All the same strengths are still here -- the band still sounds as thunderous as a force of nature, Phil Lynott's writing is still graced with elegant turns of phrase, his singing is still soulful and seductive." -Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com
Features:
180g Vinyl
Musicians:
Philip Lynott, bass, vocals
Brian Downey, drums
Scott Gorham, guitar
Brian Robertson, guitar
Selections:
Side One:
1. Johnny
2. Rocky
3. Borderline
4. Don't Believe a Word
5. Fools Gold
Side Two:
1. Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed
2. Old Flame
3. Massacre
4. Sweet Marie
5. Boogie Woogie Dance
