Gone Hollywood Songs: Hollywood (Down on Your Luck)

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Let’s hit the Hollywood hills, at least in song. Here’s another song that tells the reality of the failures in the city of dreams. We have to remember that, for every success, there’s a million people who didn’t succeed. So crank up the volume and let’s rock! Hollywood (Down on Your Luck) - Thin Lizzy It’s not unique to Hollywood. There are a million songs about failing in country music (as Robbie Fulks put it in the song I can’t mention the title of, “Shook a lot of hands, ate a lot of lunch, wrote a bunch of dumb (butt) songs”). There are a million stories about failing on Broadway. About the only thing you can say about the failures is that we get a lot of great songs (and movies and plays) about them. Here Thin Lizzy, late in their career, sang of the pitfalls of not being on top. “Nobody gives a damn when you’re down on your luck.” That’s sadly as true in Hollywood, California as it is in Hollywood, South Carolina. Hollywood (Down on Your Luck) Written by Phil Lynott and Scott Gorham Recorded by Thin Lizzy From Renegade, 1981 HOLLYWOOD LYRICS: title Livin’ out a technicolor dream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9PZvrBd6eY