![]() Sure Lynott could have just laid around moping in his misfortune for a few months but rock and roll hearts don’t rest so easily and with acoustic in hand, he started to create the songs that would become the unplanned and unexpected Johnny The Fox. With “The Boys Are Back In Town” and the title track grabbing decent radio time in the US and a planned slot warming up the stages for hot live act Rainbow, it had to be disheartening to have to cut things short. Looking back, it’s tough to imagine Thin Lizzy‘s killer album run from 1975’s Fighting through the tail end of the decade minus Johnny The Fox.Īs the band’s only album to go gold out side of the UK, expectations surely were running high for Thin Lizzy to ride Jailbreak into a huge place among hard rock’s elite bands. For many, this “lost” classic is a favorite, myself included, and if truth be told, despite a love for Lizzy‘s more worldwide commercially know releases like Jailbreak and Bad Reputation, the Thin Lizzy record I most cannot live without IS the one that nearly wasn’t – Johnny The Fox. For fans like me who side more with the likes of critic Martin Popoff who called Johnny The Fox “a rich textural work of melodic, soft-edged metal, lyrically soulful, melancholy, in many places tragic”, the thought of a world without the album is perhaps just as tragic as some of the album’s themes. Released a mere seven months later, the result of frontman Phil Lynott‘s time off due to hepatitus that canceled the band’s planned 1976 US tour with Rainbow, Johnny The Fox is a record that, had Thin Lizzy been able to push forward touring in support of Jailbreak, might have never even existed. ![]() ![]() Considered by some music critics to be a step back after the commercial breakthrough success of early 1976 release Jailbreak, Thin Lizzy‘s Johnny The Fox is an unexpected rock and roll fan favorite that in all actuality shouldn’t have even been. ![]()
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