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Elly Roberts reviews
Greatest Hits
Universal Music TV
- Year: 2004
- Rating: 9/10
- Cat. No: 9821111
Track listing:
Disc 1:
- 1.The Boys Are Back In Town
2.Jailbreak
3.Dont Believe A Word
4.Dancing In The Moonlight
5.Rosalie
6.Waiting For An Alibi
7.Do Anything You Want To
8.Sarah
9.Chinatown
10.Killer On The Loose
11.Trouble Boys
12.Hollywood
13.Cold Sweat
14.Thunder And Lightning
15.The Sun Goes Down
16.Dedication
17.Still In Love With You
Disc 2:
- 1.Whisky In The Jar
2.Out In The Fields
3.Parisiene Walkways
4.Emerald (live)
5.Bad Reputation
6.Wild One
7.Fighting My Way Back
8.Showdown
9.Black Rose
10.Dear Miss Lonely Hearts
11.The Rocker
12.Are You Ready
13.Renegade
14.Kings Call
15. Angel Of Death
16.Cowboy Song (live)
17.The Boys Are Back In Town (live)
Get your tennis racquets out and plug in!
Out right now is a big fat double disc of Thin Lizzys Greatest Hits.This 36-tracker celebrates the glory days of a band that should have reachedmuch greater heights. They not only made some good albums, but they consistentlynotched up an impressive list of evergreen singles charting 19 times between1973 and 1991.
Thin Lizzy was a hard nosed band whose music was mostly distinguished by thestrong macho themes of Phil Lynotts songs i.e. The Boys Are Back InTown, celebrating male camaraderie and comic book heroism, as opposed tothe Glamrockers of the day. After a slow start, they threw the jingly electricguitar intro of Whisky In The Jar at us (B-side The Rocker) andwe were eventually intoxicated by them.
It took a further 3 years in May 76 for the hits to roll out, on average two ayear. Main features of their sound was Phil Lynotts sublime bass playing andstrained vocals, the twin guitars, which over a period, included Gary Moore,Snowy White and Midge Ure. It wasnt just pulsating decibel onslaughtsa la Jailbreak and Killer On The Loose, because they had a tenderside with lush hooks on the funky Dancing In The Moonlight and love balladSarah, which always included great choruses.
Two previously unreleased live tracks are added Cowboy Song and TheBoys Are Back In Town confirming their status as a great live band. Theyofficially disbanded in 1983. Lynott had hits with the storming single YellowPearl in 1981, with Gary Moore on the divine Parisienne Walkways (1979)and Out In The Fields in 1985 (all included).
Following a drug overdose in early 86, he succumbed to pneumonia and heartfailure. Ah great memories of Art College discos.
Elly Roberts passed away in 2011, but he was a man who was so passionate about all types of music and loved meeting his musical heroes, such as Mick Hucknall at a book signing at the Trafford Centre, Manchester in 2007.
A former teacher and also a music journalist, DJ and radio presenter on local community station Calon FM, plus appearances on BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Radio 2, Elly started doing reviews for DVDfever.co.uk in 2004 and he did the majority of the CD and concerts reviews on the website.
I know also that he loved getting away for the summer to Spain and I hope that wherever he is now he is enjoying the hot sunshine and, as one of his friends has said on his Facebook page, that he is interviewing his musical heroes.