Phil Lynott (song)
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| "Phil Lynott" | |
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| Single by Jape | |
| from the album Ritual | |
| Released | 19 December 2008[1] |
| Songwriter | Richie Egan |
"Phil Lynott" is a 2008 single by the Irish band Jape, taken from their third studio album, Ritual. Released on 19 December 2008,[1] Jape fans were behind an unsuccessful online petition to establish the song as the Christmas number one in the Irish Singles Chart. "Phil Lynott" was well-received, with critics generally regarding it as one of the finer songs on the Ritual album[1][2][3][4] and the Irish Independent naming it the best Irish song of the year.[5]
"Phil Lynott" has been described as "a children’s fairy tale type of song".[3] It is a simple song with three chords which describes the events of one night when the writer attended a live performance by the heavy metal band Mastodon in Dublin. Mastodon performed a cover of a Thin Lizzy song – the band fronted by the musician of the title. Following the show's completion, the writer and his friends witnessed a lunar eclipse.[3] The lyrics "One day I will be a dead man who plays the bass from Crumlin/Like Phil Lynott" were praised in a review by the national broadcaster RTÉ for their mixture of "humour and seriousness through raw, emotional thoughts".[2] Jape's founder Richie Egan, like Lynott, has connections to the Dublin suburb of Crumlin.[1]