{"id":210012,"date":"2025-12-25T09:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T09:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/210012\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T09:21:08","slug":"thin-lizzy-guitarist-eric-bell-based-his-whiskey-in-the-jar-riff-on-the-chieftains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/210012\/","title":{"rendered":"Thin Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell based his Whiskey in the Jar riff on The Chieftains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Thin Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell on writing the iconic guitar riff\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"From left, Phil Lynott, Brian Downey and Eric Bell in February 1973. Photo: Getty \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/5133cbe9-bfb9-4940-95d2-43486e1a9fce.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">From left, Phil Lynott, Brian Downey and Eric Bell in February 1973. Photo: Getty <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Phil Lynott died in 1986. He was 36. Eric Bell, the former Thin Lizzy guitarist, bumped into him in London by accident a few years before that. They\u2019d once shared a house in Clontarf \u2013 but were now virtual strangers after a row after a gig.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI was passing a shop and saw a black man with an afro. There was a lot of black men in London with afros, but I\u2019d a feeling it was him. We hadn\u2019t spoken in years. I went in and we had a big hug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thin Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell on writing the iconic guitar riff From left, Phil Lynott, Brian Downey and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[6282,93,61,60,278,6992],"class_list":["post-210012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-barry-egan","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-people-culture-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}