Black Rose: A Rock Legend

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Total Tracks: 9   Total Length: 38:48

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One of their best

rockinrandy

Although Thin Lizzy's popularity was no where near as high as it was in England and Europe in general, this album got plenty of good reveiws here in the states thanks to good writing and Gary Moores's high intensity guitar antics. One of their best for sure!!

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Pick this one up

Walker63

This effort contains two Lizzy classics, Waiting For An Alibi and Roisin Dubh (Black Rose). Guitar chops courtesy Gary Moore. Sadly, it also contains the prophetic Got to Give It Up. Lynott didn't, was lost within five years of recording this album.

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some really good tracks here

fartheststar

there are some really good cuts here. check out 1,3,6,7,8. good stuff. I was in a band back in the 80s and we played "Cowboy Song" which is probably my favorite by the band. If you like these track Cowboy Song down (it's not on emusic right now).

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Black Rose: A Rock Legend would prove to be Thin Lizzy’s last true classic album (and last produced by Tony Visconti). Guitarist Brian Robertson was replaced by Gary Moore prior to the album’s recording. Moore had already been a member of the band in the early ’70s and served as a tour fill-in for Robertson in 1977, and he fits in perfectly with Lizzy’s heavy, dual-guitar attack. Black Rose also turned out to be the band’s most musically varied, accomplished, and successful studio album, reaching number two on the U.K. album chart upon release. Lizzy leader Phil Lynott is again equipped with a fine set of originals, which the rest of the band shines on — the percussion-driven opener “Do Anything You Want To,” the pop hit “Waiting for an Alibi,” and a gentle song for Lynott’s newly born daughter, “Sarah.” Not all the material is as upbeat, such as the funky “S&M,” as well two grim tales of street life and substance abuse — “Toughest Street in Town” and “Got to Give It Up” (the latter sadly prophetic for Lynott). Black Rose closes with the epic seven-minute title track, which includes an amazing, complex guitar solo by Moore that incorporates Celtic themes against a hard rock accompaniment. Black Rose: A Rock Legend is one of the ’70s lost rock classics. – Greg Prato

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