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Thin Lizzy

Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 1978

CHANCES ARE GOOD that this time last year you had never heard of Thin Lizzy, let along heard them. Young veterans of the British music scene who had been written off more than once, the band turned the tables in '76 with the potent Jailbreak album and a superb single in 'The Boys Are Back In Town' that perfectly captured the approach of summer in bringing some much-needed rock and roll energy to the disco-saturated AM airwaves.

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