| Black Rose: A Rock Legend | ||||||||||
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| Studio album by Thin Lizzy | ||||||||||
| Released | 13 April 1979 | |||||||||
| Recorded | Paris & London, Dec. 1978 – Feb. 1979 | |||||||||
| Genre | Hard rock | |||||||||
| Length | 38:49 | |||||||||
| Label | Vertigo (UK) Warner Bros. Records (USA) |
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| Producer | Tony Visconti | |||||||||
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Black Rose: A Rock Legend is the ninth studio album by Irish band Thin Lizzy. Released in 1979, it has been described as one of the band's "greatest, most successful albums".[1]
Black Rose: A Rock Legend debuted at its #2 peak in the UK album charts and it is the band's most successful studio album. It was the first time that blues rock guitarist Gary Moore remained in Thin Lizzy long enough to record an album after previous stints in 1974 and 1977 with the band.
Axl Rose has the cover of "Black Rose: A Rock Legend" tattooed on his right upper arm, and once said that he "wanted to show it to Phil Lynott, but then he died on me".
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The album included the second song Lynott wrote about a member of his family entitled "Sarah", the first song by this name having appeared on 1972's Shades of a Blue Orphanage, written about his grandmother, also named Sarah. The song on Black Rose: A Rock Legend is about his then newly born daughter.
The last track, "Róisín Dubh", consists of traditional songs, all arranged by Lynott and Moore, as well as original parts. The song "Will You Go Lassie, Go" (Wild Mountain Thyme) is sometimes mistakenly credited as a traditional song, but was in fact written by William McPeake, and first recorded by Francis McPeake (and is on the album credited to F. McPeak).
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Greg Prato of Allmusic described the album as "Thin Lizzy's last true classic album", and their "most musically varied, accomplished, and successful studio album". He praised Moore's presence as "a perfect fit", and singled out "Do Anything You Want To", "Waiting for an Alibi" and "Sarah" as stand-out tracks, among others. He also praised the title track, and its "amazing, complex guitar solo".[2]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Do Anything You Want To" | Philip Lynott | 3:53 |
| 2. | "Toughest Street in Town" | Scott Gorham, Lynott, Gary Moore | 4:01 |
| 3. | "S&M" | Brian Downey, Lynott | 4:05 |
| 4. | "Waiting for an Alibi" | Lynott | 3:30 |
| 5. | "Sarah" | Lynott, Moore | 3:33 |
| 6. | "Got to Give It Up" | Gorham, Lynott | 4:24 |
| 7. | "Get Out Of Here" | Lynott, Midge Ure | 3:37 |
| 8. | "With Love" | Lynott | 4:38 |
| 9. | "Róisín Dubh (Black Rose): A Rock Legend"
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A new remastered and expanded edition of Black Rose was released on 27 June 2011. This new edition is a 2CD set, with the original album on disc one, and bonus material on disc two.
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