Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott: 'I am Johnny Cool, you know' – a classic interview from the vaults

Thin Lizzy are back in the studio, so what better time to visit Rock's Backpages – the world's leading archive of vintage music writing – and rediscover this classic 1976 piece from Creem?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 whisky. KMET is pumping out what is by now the inevitable sound of Peter Frampton.LA-born Gorham picks at hi...

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