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Thin Lizzy: The Male Mystique

Mick Brown, Rolling Stone, 21 September 1978

LONDONAlthough Phil Lynott isn't well-known yet in America, Thin Lizzy's singer/bass player is already something of a sex symbol in England: the super-stud of rock, trumpeted the mass-circulation Sun. Perhaps that's not the sort of recognition Lynott has spent the last seven years working for, but it's as close to a compliment a six-foot-plus black Irishman is likely to get from the popular press. "Actually, I don't mind all that a bit," Lynott says with a smile. "For years I'd read all those interviews where people would be asked, 'Do you enjoy being a rock star, with all the girls after you?' And you'd always get the most ridiculous answers: 'No, it's terrible. Life on the road's so hard..." Lynott summons the biggest guffaw possible when it's one in the afternoon and you've only been out of bed an hour. "I'd read that and think, 'I wish I had it so bad.'"

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