Philip Lynott packed a vast amount into his thirty-six years. An instantly
identifiable singer, charismatic stage performer, and supremely gifted
songwriter, the guiding spirit of Thin Lizzy combined the instincts of a wild
man with the soul of a poet.
The first biography written with the cooperation of the Lynott Estate, Cowboy
Song explores the fascinating contradictions between Lynott's unbridled rock
star excesses and the shy, sensitive "orphan" raised in working-class Dublin.
The mixed-race child of a Catholic teenager and a Guyanese stowaway, Lynott rose
above daunting obstacles and wounding abandonments to become Ireland's first
rock star.
Cowboy Song analyses his unsettled childhood; musical apprenticeship; key
alliances with the