Her recent credits include Voyager documentary The Farthest which won numerous awards including an Emmy in 2017. Their music reflects a wide range of influences, including blues, soul music, psychedelic rock and traditional Irish folk music, but is generally classified as hard rock or sometimes heavy metal.
The members of Thin Lizzy even dared to form a supergroup, The Greedy Bastards (or, The Greedies), with members of the Sex Pistols in 1978. Their iconic frontman Phil Lynott is ingrained in the history of our very own studios, with Apollo Studio being the last place Phil recorded before his tragic death. Thin Lizzy Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band formed in Dublin in 1969. Jailbreak would prove as foundational to the future sound of metal as AC/DC’s High Voltage or Motrhead’s Motrhead, just as Thin Lizzy’s no-nonsense musical approach informed the sensibility of punk. “Having been a huge Thin Lizzy fan throughout my life, it’s an incredible honour to be bringing this celebratory and intimate portrait of lead singer and songwriter Philip Lynott to the big screen,” said Reynolds. He was best recognized as the founding member, lead vocalist, bassist and principal songwriter of the hard rock band Thin Lizzy. The Original Irish Rockstars Thin Lizzy are the personification of Rock ‘N’ Roll in Ireland and continue to influence artists worldwide to this day. Reynolds and her team have assembled a wide number of contributors including Thin Lizzy’s Eric Bell, Scott Gorham, Darren Wharton, Midge Ure, Skid Row’s Brush Shiels, U2’s Adam Clayton, Suzi Quatro, Huey Lewis and Metallica’s James Hetfield. Philip Parris Lynott, 20th August 1949 4th January 1986, was the inspirational Irish musician, singer and songwriter who fronted the legendary rock band. Phil Lynott: Songs For While I’m Away is being produced by Alan Maher and John Wallace of Ireland’s newly-formed Cowtown Pictures with Peter Worsley of London-based music documentart specialists Eagle Rock Films for Globe Productions, part of Universal Music Group, with backing from Screen Ireland. Born in Birmingham to a father from British Guiana and an Irish mother, he moved to Dublin as a young child where he lived with his grandparents.
The documentary will trace how a young black boy from working class 1950’s Dublin became one of Ireland’s greatest rock stars as the lead singer of Thin Lizzy. He was a founding member of the band Thin Lizzy. The life and music of rock icon Phil Lynott is to be documented in Phil Lynott: Songs For While I’m Away, to be directed by the award-winning Irish filmmaker Emer Reynolds. Phil Lynott was born in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England in August 1949 and passed away in January 1986.
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