Thin Lizzy: Who Needs Springsteen When You've Got Johnny Cool?
Chris Salewicz, Creem, November 1976
IT'S JUST AFTER SEVEN in the evening. Phil Lynott and Scott Gorham are stretched on the floor of room 1012 in the Continental Hyatt House on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, demolishing a bottle of J&B whiskey. KMET is pumping out what is by now the inevitable sound of Peter Frampton.
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