That was probably the first time we started to get calculating in that sense.” Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr is acknowledging a pivotal moment in Simple Minds’ career. Rock stars will cite all manner ...

Thin Lizzy's The Acoustic Sessions debuts inside the top 10 on a pair of charts in the U.K. this week, and it misses out on a ...

Throughout his career, he performed with Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy, and the Tygers of Pan Tang, and fronted his own band Blue Murder. He released four solo LPs and a live solo album. Born in Reading ...

That led to Sykes joining Thin Lizzy, playing on their 1983 album Thunder And Lightning, and co-writing their UK hit “Cold Sweat.” Thin Lizzy broke up later in 1983, and Lynott died in 1986.

After two years of albums and tours, Sykes became lead guitarist with Irish rock band Thin Lizzy, alongside Scott Gorham. He performed on the Thunder And Lightning album in the early 1980s ...

a dissatisfied Sykes quit in 1982 to join the Irish band Thin Lizzy, nudging them towards the metal sound for which they would become widely known and playing guitar on final album Thunder and ...

Sykes was asked to join the band following their collaboration, and he is credited with co-writing the single “Cold Sweat” on Thin Lizzy’s twelfth and final album, Thunder and Lightning.

The death of former Whitesnake,Thin Lizzy and Blue Murder guitarist John ... Guitarist Adrian Vandenberg, who also appears on the 1987 Whitesnake album, paid tribute to Sykes while lamenting ...

The members of Thin Lizzy played on a Sykes solo single that fulfilled his contract, and he was asked to join the band. Sykes brought a distinctly heavy metal touch to the band’s final album ...

British guitarist John Sykes, best known for his work with rock bands Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake ... performing on their 1984 album “Slide It In” and playing in front of hundreds of thousands ...