Thin Lizzy: Gobi Gobi Hey!
Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 17 December 1977
AN ANECDOTE: hopeful young Irish band up in London for the first time. Their bass player Philip Lynott by name is exploring the wonders of the Tube for the first time, since subway travel is not one of the features for which Dublin is particularly renowned.
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