Cowboy Song: The Authorized Biography of Thin Lizzy's Philip Lynott

Philip Lynott packed a vast amount into his 36 years. An instantly identifiable singer charismatic stage performer and supremely gifted songwriter the guiding spirit of Thin Lizzy combined the instincts of a wild man with the soul of a poet. The first biography written with the cooperation of the Lynott Estate Cowboy Song explores the fascinating contradictions between Lynotts unbridled rock star excesses and the shy sensitive orphan raised in workingclass Dublin. The mixedrace child of a Catholic teenager and a Guyanese stowaway Lynott rose above daunting obstacles and wounding abandonments. Cowboy Song analyzes his unsettled childhood musical apprenticeship key alliances with the poets painters and folkies of 1960s Dublin stardom with Thin Lizzy and druginduced decline. It examines the unique blend of cultural influences which informed Lynotts writing connecting Irelands rich reserves of music myth and poetry to hard rock progressive folk punk soul and new wave. The resultsincluding