Posted on 01/04/2024 7:51:17 PM PST by DoodleBob
When the call came that Phil Lynott had died, Thin Lizzy fans everywhere went into shock, devastated at the news. ‘Phil Lynott’ and ‘dead’ were words that one could not possibly imagine being put together. The writing had been on the wall for some years, but no-one – not fans, friends, band, management, record companies – could believe that he had actually succumbed to the inevitable.
It was common knowledge that Phil’s post-Thin Lizzy career had gone off the rails and that his dependence on drugs – loads of them – was not helping. His band Grand Slam had ground to a stuttering halt before breaking up, his marriage was in trouble and his personal life was being openly examined, many times in the courts. This all contributed to putting him in a very bad place, although news of a solo deal brought some hope.
Phil, though, was not one to help himself
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On Christmas Day, 1985, Lynott was found collapsed in his bathroom, having fallen getting out of the bath. His wife, Caroline, was called. She drove 100 miles from Bath where she was spending Christmas with their children, Sarah and Cathleen.
Assuming that Phil’s condition was drug-related, she drove him first to a specialist drugs clinic in Wiltshire, where doctors recommended that he should be admitted to the intensive care unit at Salisbury Infirmary as he was suffering from a medical condition, septicaemia. The infection took hold and he tragically died on January 4, 1986 from heart failure and pneumonia, and the inherent drug problems, after an 11-day fight for his life.
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Love, “I am Just A Cowboy.”
Phil who I why should I give a dam.
Anyone who cries over a dead celebrity is pathetic.
I agree. The crying when Limbaugh died was absurd.
How long since you were called a pussy?
Saw Thin Lizzy on twin bill with Kansas in 1978.
You can always count on scorn here
8:20:29 AM today.
Why do you ask?
Liberals are so easily triggered.
Nobody will be writing about these harpies 38 years after.
True but someone occasionally mentions howlin or sinkspur
In fairness we’ve had some good folks die
Vietnam gulf something
Bnblflg
I like apes …a suicide
The Texas guy who shot him self
Harpseal
Shibumi
But honestly the lack of sympathy which costs nothing pains me
Maybe I’m just soft in my old age
Man it was a robust forum in the 2000 election
If I’m ever tacky remind me of this please
I’m almost always only tacky over southern stuff
I put Thin Lizzy into the Celtic category in my music library. Songs like "Whiskey In The Jar" and "The Rocker" are personal favorites.
Recognizing the talent of a musical artist and lamenting their premature death should be no sin and is no sign of "celebrity worship." Some of the people here on Free Republic are disgusting and hateful people.
I heard an old hippie say “the vibration of doom is gaining the majority vote. We're being governed and moved by so many things. ”
For a LONG time, people have been herded like cattle. Bad is good, good is bad. With the Iraq war, the herders started making things VERY personal. Conservatives were Nazis. Obama made that personalization of detest even more elevated. Hillary handed the Presidency to Trump when she said the silent part out loud with Deplorables.
However…since the masks came off etc. in 2021, people have lost their mind. I’m not blaming the shots, honest. But starting in the spring of 2021, I’ve seen people at check out lines become irritated over stupid little things. I’ve heard people on conference calls act like ogres. Folks are flipping out over the dumbest things. People are cheering when someone dies suddenly.
I get it. That pent-up anger has to come out SOMEWHERE.
But you KNOW it’s bad, when JimRob gives all of FReeperdom a behavioral lecture. And even THAT didn’t stop it.
I wish I had a solution. All I can do, personally, is reject the majority vote. That doesn’t mean being milquetoast, but I don’t have to be a jackwwgon
Thanks for the posts. Phil amounted to more than the irritating class could ever dream.
Kenny Bunk and Ohioan were two of my favorites who are no longer with us. And we just don’t know about many who simply cease posting.
Yep
I failed to mention Bill Flax
A pioneer for us
I spoke with him a few times on the phone I think he was almost 90 not long before his death
And still fighting the fight
https://www.rohdefuneral.com/obituary/william-flax
A defender of our region from Ohio God love him
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