Play the Jukebox: The Boys Are Back in Town

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King Charles wishes us a happy rebellion day. Happy 250th birthday, America. To celebrate, I’m going over to the jukebox and play a song…by an Irish band. Here’s today’s song. The Boys Are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy At lest I got to see these guys live!!! Thin Lizzy was part of my second-ever rock concert, Summer Jam II, in 1978. They were easily the best band that day. This was far and away their biggest hit in the United States. And, yes, they did do other songs. “Jailbreak,” the title song from the album that gave us this, still gets FM rock airplay. There’s “Whiskey in the Jar” and “Cowboy Song” (I love the notion of a black Irish guy singing about being an American cowboy!), too. Frontman Phil Lynott couldn’t beat that addiction problem he had, and it took his life at the young age of 36. (Guitarist Gary Moore had a similar problem, dying at 58 from an alcohol-induced heart attack.) Now people recognize how good they were. But, as Joni Mitchell famously said, it always seems to go that we don’t know what we have until it’s gone. The Boys Are Back in Town Written by Phil Lynott Recorded by Thin Lizzy From Jailbreak, 1976 JUKEBOX LYRICS: That jukebox in the corner blasting out my favorite song