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"I sat down on the stairs of my basement and just cried. It killed me that he wasn’t going to be there any more": The final struggle for the life of Phil Lynott (RIP 38 years ago)
MSN ^ | January 3, 2023 | Harry Doherty

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

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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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Reference
KEYWORDS: music; phillynott; thinlizzy
Anybody who covers a Bob Seger tune (Rosalie) so bigly that Lemmy covers that cover, is a talent. So sad. RIP.


1 posted on 01/04/2024 7:51:17 PM PST by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob
TL did a song called Got To Give It Up that pretty much foreshadowed Lynott's end. Great tune from maybe their best album (Black Rose).
2 posted on 01/04/2024 8:13:07 PM PST by Major Matt Mason (To solve the Democrat problem, the RINO problem must first be solved.)
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To: DoodleBob

Love, “I am Just A Cowboy.”


3 posted on 01/04/2024 8:40:38 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: cowboyusa

Phil who I why should I give a dam.


4 posted on 01/05/2024 4:26:32 AM PST by riverrunner
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To: DoodleBob

Anyone who cries over a dead celebrity is pathetic.


5 posted on 01/05/2024 4:28:52 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

I agree. The crying when Limbaugh died was absurd.


6 posted on 01/05/2024 4:49:11 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: DoodleBob

How long since you were called a pussy?


7 posted on 01/05/2024 5:20:29 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: DoodleBob

Saw Thin Lizzy on twin bill with Kansas in 1978.


8 posted on 01/05/2024 8:39:11 AM PST by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: DoodleBob

You can always count on scorn here


9 posted on 01/05/2024 8:42:03 AM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

8:20:29 AM today.

Why do you ask?

Liberals are so easily triggered.


10 posted on 01/05/2024 11:40:00 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: wardaddy

Nobody will be writing about these harpies 38 years after.


11 posted on 01/05/2024 2:09:51 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: DoodleBob

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


12 posted on 01/07/2024 9:55:17 AM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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To: DoodleBob

If I’m ever tacky remind me of this please

I’m almost always only tacky over southern stuff


13 posted on 01/07/2024 9:56:38 AM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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To: DoodleBob
Of course the haters here have to get nasty. It's why I stopped my monthly contributions to this site. Just too toxic to support. But something draws me here nonetheless!

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.

14 posted on 01/07/2024 10:02:46 AM PST by SamAdams76 (6,508,933 Truth | 87,456,907 Twitter)
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To: wardaddy; SamAdams76
I’m a relative FR “noob” but I’ve been on the planet for a while.

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.

15 posted on 01/07/2024 11:08:16 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: wardaddy; DoodleBob

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.


16 posted on 01/07/2024 7:30:05 PM PST by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: Pelham; DoodleBob; FLT-bird; jeffersondem; woodpusher

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


17 posted on 01/07/2024 10:45:51 PM PST by wardaddy (I have seen true anti semitism is more common in USA than I imagined. A disease in the public mind)
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