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allanheron 's review for:
Cowboy Song: The Authorised Biography Of Philip Lynott
by Graeme Thomson
Lynott's life story is desperately tragic and this book tells his tale in a manner that whilst sympathetic does not avoid any of the harder issues surrounding that life.
The book helped me to make linkages in Lynott's friends and colleagues and to better understand both the man and what drove him to make the music that he made.
It was very much the tough/tender combination that made Lynott and Thin Lizzy such an attractive proposition. But that it was underpinned by such insecurity is the tragedy of Lynott's life.
This is the third of author's Graeme Thomson's music biographies that I have read. I think he can be fairly described as a very safe pair of hands to deliver a well-researched, well-written piece of work on his subject.
The book helped me to make linkages in Lynott's friends and colleagues and to better understand both the man and what drove him to make the music that he made.
It was very much the tough/tender combination that made Lynott and Thin Lizzy such an attractive proposition. But that it was underpinned by such insecurity is the tragedy of Lynott's life.
This is the third of author's Graeme Thomson's music biographies that I have read. I think he can be fairly described as a very safe pair of hands to deliver a well-researched, well-written piece of work on his subject.