Phil Lynott: Songs For While I'm Away shows on RTÉ tonight
Songs for While I’m Away: Phil Lynott and Brian Robertson and performing live onstage. Picture: Fin Costello/Redfern
Emer Reynolds can still vividly remember the emotion in the venue as she watched Thin Lizzy’s last-ever Irish gig. It was the spring of 1983 in Dublin’s RDS, and as the band played some of their most memorable songs, the tears started to fall. She wasn’t the only one.
“Everyone was in tears,” she tells me. “It didn't seem real that Thin Lizzy would be no more. They had said it was their last tour. I definitely thought maybe this won't be the end, maybe they'll take a break for a year or two. Philip was doing solo stuff at that stage. Maybe they all need to just refresh a little and then they'd be back. But then of course life took the sad turn that it did. And that actually was the end of the line.”
