KFIX Rock News: Thin Lizzy’s First 8 Albums Being Reissued On High-Quality Vinyl

If your beloved Thin Lizzy vinyl albums are too warped and scratched to enjoy anymore, take heart: this week, you’ll be treated to newly-remastered, high-quality vinyl versions of the beloved Irish rock band’s first eight studio albums.

The discs, which will be pressed on 180-gram vinyl, will be released this Friday in conjunction with Universal Music’s ongoing Back to Black reissue campaign.

The LPs, which will come in sleeves replicating the original artwork, span from Thin Lizzy’s 1971 self-titled effort through 1977’s Bad Reputation, and include the band’s best-known album, 1976’s Jailbreak.

That record yielded two of the group’s best-known songs: the title track and “The Boys Are Back in Town,” the latter of which reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Thin Lizzy was led by charismatic singer, bassist and songwriter Phil Lynott, whose writing was influenced by such rock poets as Bob Dylan, Van Morrison and Bruce Springsteen and also sought musical inspiration from such harder rocking artists as Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck.

The band broke up in 1983, and Lynott passed away three years later at the age of 36 from complications of drug abuse.

Thin Lizzy re-formed in 1996 and has continued to tour on and off with various lineups featuring one or more members of the group’s Lynott-fronted incarnations.

Here’s the full list of Thin Lizzy albums that’ll be reissued on vinyl this Friday:

Thin Lizzy (1971)
Shades of a Blue Orphanage (1972)
Vagabonds of the Western World (1973)
Nightlife (1974)
Fighting (1975)
Jailbreak (1976)
Johnny the Fox (1976)
Bad Reputation (1977)

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