Thin Lizzy: How the Laid-Back Californian met the Drunken Scot and the Heavy Black Irishman…
Chris Salewicz, NME, 18 December 1976
IF LEW GRADE ever gets round to planning a rock 'n' roll soap opera he could fill the first fifty-two weeks (at least) with The Tempestuous Tragedies Of Thin Lizzy.
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