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“I said, Adrian, why aren't you singing in Iron Maiden? Be the singer!” Thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham once encouraged Adrian Smith to return to Iron Maiden as the band's frontman

In 1997, Scott Gorham suggested that Adrian Smith should rejoin Iron Maiden in place of Blaze Bayley

"I've been doing this since like the mid-'70s and I never showed anybody: Scott Gorham on revealing his hidden artistic talent and his new plans for the first Thin Lizzy song he ever wrote with Phil Lynott

"I've been doing this since like the mid-'70s and I never showed anybody: Scott Gorham on revealing his hidden artistic talent and his new plans for the first Thin Lizzy song he ever wrote with Phil Lynott

As the guitarist and songwriter goes public with his art, he reveals he's also looking to go back and rework some of the band's songs that Lizzy didn't do justice to in the studio

Does guitar weight matter? Thin Lizzy icon and Les Paul fan Scott Gorham thinks it depends where you're playing

Does guitar weight matter? Thin Lizzy icon and Les Paul fan Scott Gorham thinks it depends where you're playing

When it comes to pounds and ounces with guitars, opinions and perspectives can differ wildly

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“It was a no-brainer to get Jeff Porcaro from Toto to produce. He’d played on more hit records than anybody I knew”: how cult melodic rockers The Strand made the greatest AOR debut album you’ve never heard

What links Toto and Steve Irwin: Crocodile Hunter? Cult US rockers The Strand

"I sat down on the stairs of my basement and just cried. It killed me that he wasn’t going to be there any more": The final struggle for the life of Phil Lynott

The final year of Phil Lynott's life saw him try to get his career back on track. Instead, it was 365 days of missed opportunities, lost passports and crazy deals

“Lizzy were a man down…”: Pat Travers on the time he nearly joined Thin Lizzy

In 1976, Thin Lizzy were in urgent need of a guitarist and Canadian guitarist Pat Travers says he was very nearly their man

Thin Lizzy's Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson brought twin-guitar leads to the masses – master their influential style

Jailbreak your rock chops with a lesson in the playing of two guitarists who influenced every guitar duo that followed

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How Thin Lizzy hitting it hard in Paris was the beginning of the end

How Thin Lizzy hitting it hard in Paris was the beginning of the end

“When the brown powder marched in, we were done for” says Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham

The night Tony Visconti thought Phil Lynott was going to die in his hotel room

The night Tony Visconti thought Phil Lynott was going to die in his hotel room

Producer Tony Visconti was working with Thin Lizzy on their Black Rose album when Phil Lynott's partying started to spiral out of control

Phil Lynott once invited Cliff Richard into the studio to hear new Thin Lizzy songs while his dealer chopped out heroin behind the squeaky-clean pop star

Phil Lynott once invited Cliff Richard into the studio to hear new Thin Lizzy songs while his dealer chopped out heroin behind the squeaky-clean pop star

Thin Lizzy's studio sessions in Paris for 1979's Black Rose album were punctuated by heavy drug use, and Phil Lynott wasn't particularly careful about hiding that fact

The Lowlist: Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous is one of the greatest live albums ever released

The Lowlist: Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous is one of the greatest live albums ever released

Unfairly maligned as an album "fixed in the studio", a new version of Live And Dangerous proves Lynott and co didn't need overdubs

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