Thin Lizzy Almost Didn’t Release ‘The Boys Are Back In Town’

Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham reveals that the band came close to cutting their biggest hit single “The Boys Are Back In Town.” “Back then, you picked 10 songs and went with those because of the time restrictions of vinyl. We recorded 15 songs, and of the 10 we picked, that wasn’t one of them,” he tells Classic Rock. “But then the management heard it and said, ‘No.'”More »

By on May 28, 2015

Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham reveals that the band came close to cutting their biggest hit single “The Boys Are Back In Town.” “Back then, you picked 10 songs and went with those because of the time restrictions of vinyl. We recorded 15 songs, and of the 10 we picked, that wasn’t one of them,” he tells Classic Rock. “But then the management heard it and said, ‘No, there’s something really good about this song.’ Although back then, it didn’t yet have the twin guitar parts on it.” “We were playing in some club in the U.S. when our manager came in and said, ‘Well, looks like we’ve got a hit.’ We were like, ‘Which song?’ Seriously, we didn’t have any idea at all which song it was that had taken off for us.” “The Boys Are Back In Town” is featured on Thin Lizzy’s 1976 Jailbreak album. Copyright(c) 2015 RTTNews.com. All Rights ReservedLess «