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\"Thin<\/a><\/p>\n

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Thin Lizzy are turning back the clock.\u00a0 Following last year’s set 1976 <\/a>– chronicling the breakthrough albums Jailbreak and Johnny the Fox – the Irish band will, on November 21, release ’74-’75, a deep dive into Nightlife and Fighting.\u00a0 The 7CD box set chronicles the making of those two seminal albums which were the first to feature the “classic” quartet line-up with guitarists Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson joining frontman\/bassist Phil Lynott and drummer Brian Downey.<\/p>\n

Nightlife came first in 1974, produced by Lynott and Ron Nevison, whose credits would grow to encompass albums by Ozzy Osbourne, Jefferson Starship, Survivor, Heart, Chicago, KISS, and other marquee artists with a big sound.\u00a0 Nevison helped the band bring out the innate soul in its hard-rocking songs, finding the subtleties in the band dynamics and balancing the edginess with a certain degree of smoothness.\u00a0 The LP was underneath a Jim Fitzpatrick cover featuring a prowling panther – said by the artist to pay tribute to Black Power and fallen African-American leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X – and inspired by the work of comic book legends Jack Kirby and Jim Steranko.\u00a0 Nightlife yielded such fan favorite, oft-covered songs as the ballad “Still in Love with You” (likely the band’s most romantic tune) and tough “It’s Only Money.”\u00a0 The title track took its cues from Willie Nelson’s 1960 composition, a hit for Ray Price, B.J. Thomas, and Nelson himself (with trumpeter Danny Davis).<\/p>\n

The following year’s Fighting further crystallized the dual guitar attack of Gorham and Robertson and once again drew on an R&B influence as well as hard rock, pop, and even folk.\u00a0 Its varied, bold approach set the stage for Jailbreak and the band’s eventual superstardom.\u00a0 While Phil Lynott still dominated the songwriting, it featured solo compositions from Robertson (“Silver Dollar”) and Gorham (“Ballad of a Hard Man”) as well as Lynott co-writes with Brian Downey (“For Those Who Love to Live”) and Gorham (“King’s Vengeance,” “Freedom Song”).\u00a0 A cover of Bob Seger’s “Rosalie” from his Back in ’72 album opened Fighting, and featured guest musicians Ian McLagan of Faces and Roger Chapman of Family on piano and backing vocals, respectively.\u00a0 (McLagan also played on “Silver Dollar.”)\u00a0 For the first time, Jim Fitzpatrick’s famous band logo appeared on the front cover.\u00a0 Fighting became Thin Lizzy’s first album to chart in the U.K., peaking at No. 60.<\/p>\n

The upcoming box set contains two versions of Nightlife: the remastered original album and a new stereo mix by Richard Whittaker as overseen by guitarist Scott Gorham and mastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road. The original Fighting gets the remastered treatment, while four songs (“Rosalie,” “Wild One,” “King’s Vengeance,” and “Silver Dollar”) have been remixed.\u00a0 Each album gets a bonus disc of single edits, B-sides, and outtakes, while the fifth disc, Mixes, presents alternate takes, extended versions, and demos.\u00a0 The sixth CD reprises a host of previously issued BBC live performances, and the seventh CD marks the official premiere of the November 21, 1975 show at the Derby College of Technology in England.<\/p>\n

The 10 x 10 package includes a 40-page hardcover book with liner notes by MOJO’s Mark Blake as well as rare photos and memorabilia images.\u00a0 Jim Fitzpatrick has contributed to the book, as well.\u00a0 ’74-’75 is due on November 21 and can be pre-ordered at the links below.\u00a0 As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.<\/p>\n

74-75: Night Life\/Fighting\u00a0(Vertigo\/UMC, 2025) (Amazon U.S.<\/a> \/ Amazon U.K.<\/a> \/ Amazon Canada<\/a>)<\/p>\n

CD 1:\u00a0Night Life\u00a0(Original and 2025 Mixes) (released as Vertigo 6360 116 (U.K.)\/VEL-2002 (U.S.), 1974)<\/p>\n

She Knows
\nNight Life
\nIt’s Only Money
\nStill in Love with You
\nFrankie Carroll
\nShowdown
\nBanshee
\nPhilomena
\nSha La La
\nDear Heart<\/p>\n

CD 2:\u00a0Fighting\u00a0(Original and * 2025 Mixes) (released as Vertigo 6360 121 (U.K.)\/VEL-2005 (U.S.), 1975)<\/p>\n

Rosalie *
\nFor Those Who Love to Live
\nSuicide
\nWild One *
\nFighting My Way Back
\nKings Vengeance *
\nSpirit Slips Away
\nSilver Dollar *
\nFreedom Song
\nBallad of a Hard Man<\/p>\n

CD 3:\u00a0Night Life\u00a0Outtakes, B-Sides and Edits<\/p>\n

Philomena (7″ Single Edit)
\nShowdown (Demo with Gary Moore)
\nStill In Love With You (Demo with Gary Moore)
\nIt’s Only Money (Demo with Gary Moore)
\nShe Knows (Demo)
\nIt’s Only Money (Demo)
\nDear Heart (Demo)
\nRock and Roll with You (Instrumental)
\nBanshee (with Vocals)
\nDear Heart (Extended Version)
\nNight Life (Extended Version)
\nPhilomena (Alternate Version)
\nShowdown (Alternate Take)
\nStill in Love with You (Rough Vocal Mix)<\/p>\n

Track 1 released on Vertigo single 6059 111 (U.K.), 1974
Tracks 2-4 and 13-14 released on\u00a0Night Life (Deluxe Edition) – Mercury\/UMC 2792226 (U.K.), 2012
Track 7 released on\u00a0Rock Legends – Mercury\/UMC 7784976 (U.K.), 2020<\/p>\n

CD 4: Fighting\u00a0Outtakes, B-Sides and Edits<\/p>\n

Rosalie (7″ Mix)
\nHalfcaste (7″ B-Side)
\nWild One (7″ Mix)
\nBallad of a Hard Man (Instrumental Demo)
\nTry a Little Harder (Alternate Vocal)
\nFighting My Way Back (Rough Mix)
\nSong for Jesse (Instrumental Demo)
\nLeaving Town (Instrumental)
\nLeaving Town (Extended Take)
\nSpirit Slips Away (Extended Version Take 4)
\nWild One (Instrumental Demo)
\nBrian’s Funky Fazer (Silver Dollar)
\nCadillac (Instrumental Demo)
\nFor Those Who Love to Live (Demo)
\nFreedom Song (Demo)
\nSuicide (Demo)<\/p>\n

Tracks 1-2 released as Vertigo single 6059 124 (U.K.), 1975
Track 3 released on Vertigo single 6059 129 (U.K.), 1975
Tracks 4-12 released on\u00a0Fighting (Deluxe Edition) – Mercury\/UMC 2792227 (U.K.), 2012
Tracks 13-16 released on\u00a0Rock Legends – Mercury\/UMC 7784976 (U.K.), 2020<\/p>\n

CD 5: Additional Versions and Mixes<\/p>\n

Frankie Carroll (Instrumental Outtake)
\nShowdown (Extended Take)
\nSha La La (Extended Take)
\nPhilomena (Acoustic Demo)
\nWild One (Acoustic)
\nSilver Dollar (Alternate Vocal)
\nRosalie (Extended Alternate Vocal)
\nKings Vengeance (Alternate Vocal)
\nSong For Jesse (with Vocal)
\nFor Those Who Love to Live (Instrumental Demo)
\nRosalie (Outtake)
\nTry a Little Harder<\/p>\n

CD 6: BBC Sessions<\/p>\n

She Knows (John Peel Session – 10\/3\/1974)
\nIt’s Only Money (John Peel Session – 10\/3\/1974)
\nSha La La (John Peel Session – 10\/3\/1974)
\nPhilomena (John Peel Session – 10\/3\/1974)
\nDear Heart (Bob Harris Session – 10\/23\/1974)
\nBanshee (Bob Harris Session – 10\/23\/1974)
\nShe Knows (In Concert 1974)
\nIts Only Money (In Concert 1974)
\nStill in Love with You (In Concert 1974)
\nShowdown (In Concert 1974)
\nRock and Roll with You (In Concert 1974)
\nBaby Drives Me Crazy (In Concert 1974)
\nHalfcaste (John Peel Session – 5\/29\/1975)
\nRosalie (John Peel Session – 5\/29\/1975)
\nSuicide (John Peel Session – 5\/29\/1975)<\/p>\n

Tracks 1-12 released on At The BBC – Mercury\/Universal 2782155 (U.K.), 2011
Track 13 released on Fighting (Deluxe Edition) – Mercury\/UMC 2792227 (U.K.), 2012
Tracks 14-15 released on The Peel Sessions – Strange Fruit SFRCD 130 (U.K.), 1994<\/p>\n

CD 7: Live at Derby College of Technology, England – 11\/21\/1975 (released as\u00a0UK Tour 75 – Major League Productions MLP16CD (U.K.), 2008)<\/p>\n

Fighting My Way Back
\nIt’s Only Money
\nWild One
\nFor Those Who Love to Live
\nStill in Love with You
\nShowdown
\nSuicide
\nRosalie
\nThe Rocker
\nSha La La
\nBaby Drive Me Crazy
\nMe and the Boys
\nCowboy Song (Derby Blues)
\nLittle Darling
\nSound Check Jam<\/p>\n

Categories: News<\/a> Formats: Box Sets<\/a>, CD<\/a>, Digital Download<\/a>, Digital Streaming<\/a> Genre: Classic Rock<\/a>, Rock<\/a> Tags: Thin Lizzy<\/a><\/p>\n

\"AvatarJoe Marchese<\/p>\n

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song and beyond, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with labels including Real Gone Music and Cherry Red Records, has released newly-curated collections produced and annotated by Joe from iconic artists such as Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Spinners, Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Meat Loaf, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Liza Minnelli, Darlene Love, Al Stewart, Michael Nesmith, and many others.<\/p>\n

Joe has written liner notes, produced, or contributed to over 200 reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them America, JD Souther, Nat “King” Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, BJ Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, Petula Clark, Robert Goulet, and Andy Williams.<\/p>\n

Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. <\/p>\n

Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUY NOW FROM AMAZON.COM Thin Lizzy are turning back the clock.\u00a0 Following last year’s set 1976 – chronicling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-263863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}