Sleaze Roxx: Philip Lynott

Birth Name: Philip Lynott

Born: August 20, 1949 - Birmingham , England

Died: January 4, 1986 - Wiltshire, England

Cause Of Death: Heart Failure And Pneumonia

Albums:
1971 Thin Lizzy - Thin Lizzy
1972 Thin Lizzy - Shades Of A Blue Orphanage
1973 Thin Lizzy - Vagabonds Of The Western World
1974 Thin Lizzy - Nightlife
1975 Thin Lizzy - Fighting
1976 Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
1976 Thin Lizzy - Remembering Part 1
1976 Thin Lizzy - Johnny The Fox
1977 Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation
1978 Thin Lizzy - Live And Dangerous
1979 Thin Lizzy - Black Rose
1979 Thin Lizzy - The Continuing Saga Of The Ageing Orphans
1980 Philip Lynott - Solo In Soho
1980 Thin Lizzy - Chinatown
1981 Thin Lizzy - Renegade
1982 Philip Lynott - The Philip Lynott Album
1983 Thin Lizzy - Thunder And Lightning
1983 Thin Lizzy - Life

Details:
Phil Lynott, the former lead singer of the rock band Thin Lizzy, has died from heart failure and pneumonia after an 11-day fight for his life.
  The 36-year-old rock star had been admitted to Salisbury Hospital in Wiltshire with a serious kidney and liver infection on Christmas Day, after he collapsed from a drink and drug binge at his home in Surrey.
  His estranged wife, Caroline, the daughter of TV celebrity Leslie Crowther, had rushed to help him, driving 100 miles (160km) from her house in Bath to his mansion in Kew.
  She drove him first to a specialist drugs clinic in Wiltshire, where doctors recommended that he should be admitted to Salisbury's intensive care unit.
  Ms Crowther and her father had kept an all-night vigil by the singer's hospital bed before he died.
  Icons from the music world have been giving tributes to the singer and bassist who escaped the poverty of his Dublin childhood by launching a music career.
  The group found fame in the 1970s with hits like The Boys Are Back In Town released in 1976 and Dancing in the Moonlight in 1977.
  The band split up in 1984 to allow Lynott to go it alone.
  His albums, Solo in Soho released in 1980 and The Philip Lynott Album which came out two years later, failed to sell well and his solo career never really got off the ground.
  The singer always led a flamboyant rock-and-roll lifestyle.
  As he struggled to deal with the pressures of his career and problems in his personal life he became involved in drug and alcohol abuse.
  Fellow Thin Lizzy member, Scott Gorham said that his problem got worse when his wife left him and took their two children.
  He said: "I suppose he thought drugs would help him out of the low spots".
  Band Aid hero and fellow Irishman Bob Geldof, said his friends had tried to persuade him to give up his wild life of drink and drugs.
  Mr Geldof said: "He was a hard-living sort of bloke, a good bloke, a laugh but a hard nut".
  Phil Lynott leaves behind two daughters, Sara aged seven, and Cathleen aged five, who were at his home when he collapsed on Christmas Day.