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Vous avez envie de voyager dans le temps, délaisser notre morne époque pour un séjour en 1971?

Cela sera possible à compter du 10 juillet 2026. C'est en effet à cette date que sera réédité le tout premier album éponyme de THIN LIZZY en coffret Deluxe.

Ce coffret sera proposé en plusieurs formats distincts :

Édition 3 CD's + Blu-Ray

Édition 4 LP's vinyl

Édition 2 LP's vinyl

Ce disque sorti en avril 1971 avait été suivi quatre mois plus tard par l'EP "NEW DAY" devenu aujourd'hui une pièce de collection.

La réédition de cet EP sera inclue avec l'album d'origine ainsi que des tas de raretés telles que des John Peel Sessions, Sounds Of The Seventies Sessions, des Outtakes, des versions alternatives, etc...

Le tout a été rafraichi par le biais d'un nouveau mix Stéréo, supervisé par Richard Whittaker (Ingénieur du son pour d'illustres inconnus comme THE ROLLING STONES, THE POLICE, BLACK SABBATH, MIKE OLDFIELD, etc...). Il faut ajouter qu'il avait déjà précédemment travaillé sur le conversion DSD du Master analogique de l'album "BLACK ROSE (A ROCK LEGEND)".

Voici la tracklist du coffret 3 CD's :

CD1 - Thin Lizzy (Original Album + New Stereo Mix) :

01. The Friendly Ranger at Clontarf Castle

02. Honesty Is No Excuse

03. Diddy Levine

04. Ray-Gun

05. Look What the Wind Blew In

06. Eire

07. Return Of the Farmer’s Son

08. Clifton Grange Hotel

09. Saga Of the Ageing Orphan

10. Remembering (Part One)

CD2 - Richard Whiittaker New Stereo Mix

01. The Farmer (Single A-Side)

02. I Need You (Single B-Side)

03. Dublin (New Day EP)

04. Remembering (Part Two) : New Day (New Day EP)

05. Old Moon Madness (New Day EP)

06. Things Ain't Working Out Down On The Farm (New Day EP)

07. Look What The Wind Blew In (Stuart Henry Sound Of The 70's)

08. Return Of The Farmer's Son (Stuart Henry Sound Of The 70's)

09. Dublin (John Peel Session)

10. Rise And Dear Demise Of The Funky Nomadic Tribes (John Peel Session)

11. Clifton Grange Hotel (John Peel Session)

12. Ray-Gun (John Peel Session)

CD3 - Rarities

01. Eire (Instrumental Take 1 Outtake)

02. Beggar's Song

03. Clifton Grange Hotel (Instrumental)

04. Honesty Is No Excuse (Extended Version)

05. Honesty Is No Excuse (Instrumental Outtake)

06. Ray-Gun (Instrumental Take 2 Outtake)

07. Reminiscing (Take 1 Outtake)

08. Eire (Outtake)

09. Ray-Gun (Alternate Vocals)

10. Clifton Grange Hotel (Extended Version)

11. Things Ain't Working Out Down On The Farm (Alternate Vocals)

Thin Lizzy: Back in Chicago! The Riviera Broadcast - April 21, 1976 (2020) [Bootleg]

I saw many 1990s shows at Chicago's iconic Riviera Theatre (Cheap Trick, Slayer, Queensrÿche, INXS, Del Amitri, Ben Folds Five, Joan Osborne!) but I was unfortunately far too young and far away in 1976 to witness one of my all-time favorite bands play there: Thin Lizzy.

This show took place almost 50 years ago and just a few weeks removed from the release of Lizzy's breakthrough album, Jailbreak, whose songs understandably dominate the set, starting with two future live staples in the title track and "The Boys Are Back in Town."

Conveniently, Thin Lizzy's U.S. record company, Mercury, was also based in the Windy City, and it was at a meeting with label staff (*) earlier that week where band leader Philip Lynott confirmed that "Boys" would be the album' first single.

Then, after driving to nearby Pekin, IL, for an April 17 warm-up show opening for Rush, Phil and the boys were back in town four days later to "rock the Riv" as proper headliners, with direct support from English prog/pomp originals Be Bop Deluxe.

Fortunately for future generations and those who couldn't make it to the show that night, Mercury's radio promotion team arranged for the gig to be broadcast live by Chicago’s WXRT-FM, resulting in this oft-bootlegged performance.

Along with the aforementioned Jailbreak classics, Lizzy's new album was represented by twin battle hymns, "Emerald" and "Warriors," as well as the deeper album cut "Angel from the Coast," though Scott Gorham's guitar was unfortunately inaudible for the first three songs.

However, once corrected, his symbiotic interplay with fellow six-stringer Brian Robertson was evident on favorites from the Fighting and Nightlife albums like "It's Only Money," "Suicide," "Baby Drives Me Crazy," and Bob Seger's "Rosalie."

As usual, drummer Brian Downey took his solo during "Sha-La-La and a rare outtake called "Blues Boy" made the night especially memorable, long before the band brought the house down with their red-hot encore of "The Rocker."

In sum and in many ways, this show provided a somewhat looser, arguably more authentic representation of the Thin Lizzy concert experience than the celebrated but heavily studio-perfected Live and Dangerous, two years later.

Unless, that is, you were one of the unlucky fans who bought a pressing of this bootleg -- including those bearing weird titles like Mind Control and Cult Legends -- that was reproduced at the wrong speed and ran noticeably slower than the real thing.

Thankfully, my copy sounds just fine, but note how the label depicts Lizzy's short-lived 1974 power trio line-up with Gary Moore, instead of the definitive Lynott/Robertson/Gorham/Downey quartet that obviously performed in April of 1976.

That's bootlegging for ya!

* One of Mercury's interns during the late '70s was a devout young man who, according to a friend, never said much at the office and didn't attend a single show because he had another calling ... his name was Robert Francis Prevost, a.k.a. Pope Leo XIV.

Thin Lizzy Acoustic Sessions 2025 Decca ——————————————————————— Tracks: 1. Mama Nature Search 2. A Song While I’m Away 3. Eire 4. Slow Bles - E.B. 5. Dublin 6. Whiskey in the Jar 7. Here I Go Again 8. Shades of a Blue Orphanage 9. Remembering Pt. 2 ———————————————————————

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