The track incorporated three Irish folk songs – Danny Boy, The Mason’s Apron and Will You Go, Lassie Go – and the American folk song Shenandoah. Lynott’s lyrics paid tribute to a diverse array of ...
John’s next move was Blue Murder project – a power-trio supergroup with Tony Franklin of The Firm on bass and the legendary ...
The Irish guitar hero made many great records in his long career, but arguably the best of them all was the one he made with Thin Lizzy. The full title of the album says it all. Black Rose ...
Thin Lizzy's The Acoustic Sessions debuts inside the top 10 on a pair of charts in the U.K. this ... [+] week, and it misses out on a third by just a few spaces. From left to right, singer Phil ...
Soon after Thin Lizzy ended, Sykes agreed to join Whitesnake. He added guitar parts the the US release of their 1984 album Slide It In, and he co-wrote most of the songs on their self-titled 1987 ...
John Sykes, the legendary hard-rock guitarist who was a member of White Snake and Thin Lizzy has died at 65 following a battle with cancer, a post on Sykes’ Facebook page confirmed Monday night.
John Sykes, a beloved guitarist who performed with Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake in the 1980s ... Sykes began playing guitar in his teens. He began his professional music career with a group called ...
John Sykes, a veteran hard-rock guitarist who was a member of Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy and the Tygers of ... This Love” — and played all of the guitars. However, he had been fired from the ...
British guitarist John Sykes, best known for his work with rock bands Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake ... Known for his song-writing as well as his guitar playing, Sykes co-wrote Whitesnake’s ...
Correction & clarification: A prior version of this obituary misidentified John Sykes in a photo and it has since been replaced. The news was announced on his official Facebook page Monday evening ...