Life (Thin Lizzy album)

Life (subtitled Live, and labeled Life:Live on the original vinyl LP editions) is a double live album by Irish band Thin Lizzy, released in 1983. This double album was recorded during their farewell tour in 1983, principally at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, UK. Phil Lynott had felt reluctantly that it was time to disband the group after the 1983 tour and to mark the occasion, former Thin Lizzy guitarists Eric Bell (1969-73), Brian Robertson (1974-8) and Gary Moore (1974, 1977 and 1978-9) joined the band on stage at the end of these gigs to do some numbers. This was called "The All-Star Jam".

Track listing

1. "Thunder and Lightning" (Brian Downey, Phil Lynott) - 5:11
2. "Waiting for an Alibi" (Lynott) - 3:17
3. "Jailbreak" (Lynott) - 4:08
4. "Baby Please Don't Go" (Lynott) - 5:02
5. "The Holy War" (Lynott) - 4:53
6. "Renegade" (Lynott, Snowy White) - 5:45
7. "Hollywood (Down on Your Luck)" (Scott Gorham, Lynott) - 4:10
8. "Got to Give It Up" (Gorham, Lynott) - 7:04
9. "Angel of Death" (Lynott, Darren Wharton) - 5:56
10. "Are You Ready" (Downey, Gorham, Lynott, Brian Robertson) - 3:00
11. "The Boys Are Back in Town" (Lynott) - 4:53
12. "Cold Sweat" (Lynott, John Sykes) - 3:08
13. "Don't Believe a Word" (Lynott) - 5:12
14. "Killer on the Loose" (Lynott) - 5:00
15. "The Sun Goes Down" (Lynott, Wharton) - 6:45
16. "Emerald" (Downey, Gorham, Lynott, Robertson) - 3:27
17. "Black Rose" (Lynott, Gary Moore) - 6:40
18. "Still in Love With You" (Lynott) - 9:00
19. "The Rocker" (Eric Bell, Downey, Lynott) - 4:47

Personnel

• Phil Lynott: bass guitar, vocals
• Scott Gorham: guitars
• John Sykes: guitars, backing vocals
• Brian Downey: drums, percussion
• Darren Wharton: keyboards, backing vocals

Additional musicians:

• Eric Bell: guitar on "The Rocker"
• Gary Moore: guitar on "Black Rose" and "The Rocker"
• Brian Robertson: guitar on "Emerald" and "The Rocker"
• Snowy White: guitar on "Renegade", "Hollywood" and "Killer on the Loose"

Trivia

• The versions of "Renegade", "Hollywood" and "Killer on the Loose" featuring White had been performed two years earlier when he was still with the band. Ironically, White's participation was only credited to "Renegade".

• During the performance of "The Rocker" all of the guitarists (except for White) played at the same time (Moore, Sykes, Gorham, Robertson, and Bell) for a grand total of eight members on stage performing at once (including Wharton).

• Lynott describes the slower tempo version of "Don’t Believe a Word" as being the original arrangement. A version of "Don’t Believe a Word" with the slower arrangement appears on Moore's Back on the Streets album from 1978 with Lynott on bass and lead vocals and Downey on drums.