{"id":3008,"date":"2023-08-19T09:53:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T21:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2023-08-19T09:59:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T21:59:43","slug":"phil-lynott-immortalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3008","title":{"rendered":"Phil Lynott Immortalized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week in 2005 a life-size bronze statue of Phil Lynott, designed by Irish sculptor Paul Daly, was unveiled on Harry Street in Dublin. The ceremony was attended by his former\u00a0&#8220;Thin Lizzy&#8221;\u00a0band members Gary Moore, Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham. Lynott had a string of hits with &#8220;Thin Lizzy,&#8221; including &#8220;Whiskey in the Jar&#8221;, &#8220;The Boys are Back in Town&#8221; and &#8220;Jailbreak.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 1980&#8217;s Lynott increasingly suffered drug-related problems, due particularly to a heroin addiction. In 1985 he had a final chart success in collaboration with Gary Moore. &#8221; Out in the Fields&#8221; reached number 3 on the Irish singles chart, number 2 in Norway and Sweden, and number 5 in the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Phil Lynott died of\u00a0pneumonia\u00a0and\u00a0heart failure\u00a0due to\u00a0septicemia at the age of 36.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gary Moore - Out In The Fields (Official Video)\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_ciNZ8RpMdA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in 2005 a life-size bronze statue of Phil Lynott, designed by Irish sculptor Paul Daly, was unveiled on Harry Street in Dublin. The ceremony was attended by his former\u00a0&#8220;Thin Lizzy&#8221;\u00a0band members Gary Moore, Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham. Lynott had a string of hits with &#8220;Thin Lizzy,&#8221; including &#8220;Whiskey in the Jar&#8221;, &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[328,327],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-gary-moore","tag-phil-lynott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3012,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}