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Thin Lizzy: Dedication

Charles Shaar Murray, Q, March 1991

FOR A FEW good years in the mid-'70s, Dublin cowboys Thin Lizzy bought the pop virtues of literate, evocative wordplay, danceable, funky grooves and a lilting Celtic melodicism to heavy rock, a genre not traditionally rich in such qualities.

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