Independent.ie Thin Lizzy’s first hit: ‘We felt like splitting up. Then we got a telegram: Whiskey in the Jar is No 8 in the charts. Come home’
Phil Lynott died in 1986. He was 36. Eric Bell, the former Thin Lizzy guitarist, bumped into him in London by accident a few years before that. They’d once shared a house in Clontarf – but were now virtual strangers after a row after a gig.