Live and Dangerous

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The group planned to make a new studio album at the start of 1978, helmed by producer Tony Visconti, with whom they had created the successful Bad Reputation. NME reviewer Tim Chester declared Live and Dangerous "the best live album we ever heard" despite the alleged overdubs, which he dismissed as irrelevant. The footage was released on DVD in 2007, with other group performances including a show from their farewell tour on 26 January 1983, and four Top of the Pops clips from the 1970s.

Still In Love With You, penned by Lynott about old flame Gail Barber, comes across like his nightly confessional and catharsis, a soulful, all-too-human meditation on regret. Instead enjoy those left off: Johnny, It’s Only Money, Soldier Of Fortune, Opium Trail and Bad Reputation. Canadian journalist Martin Popoff praised Live and Dangerous for "supercharging some of the old guitar-based tunes that were a bit stiff, dated or under-dressed on studio vinyl" and paired it with UFO's Strangers in the Night as critics' favourite live albums. Visconti later revealed that shows at the Tower Theater, Philadelphia on 20 and 21 October 1977, a week earlier than the Toronto gig, had also been recorded.

The super deluxe edition of Live And Dangerous finally puts to bed the myth that the album was extensively overdubbed in the studio, proving that Thin Lizzy was one of the best live bands of the 1970s. As well as the full album, remastered by Andy Pearce and Matt Wortham, it featured two additional tracks from the period that were not originally included on the album (although they were later released on the Killers Live EP in 1981).

For sheer sensory excitement, though, the opening power chords of Lizzy’s take on Bob Seger’s Rosalie take some beating, and the inherent spunk of Brian Robertson’s playing is manifest on four different instances of his extraordinary wah-wah solo on Don’t Believe A Word. Ok there's some banter between front man Phil Lynott and the audience, but who can tire of Lynott's "little more Irish" line; but what banter and audience noise there is is largely kept to a minimum and doesn't detract from the songs or the playing. Thin Lizzy's 1978 double album, Live and Dangerous , along with Kiss' Alive , the Who's Live at Leeds , and the Rolling Stones' Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out , is one of the greatest live rock albums of all time.The large format (12″ x 12″) package includes sleeve notes with new interviews by Mark Blake and a booklet packed with rare photos and memorabilia. Indeed the latter is probably their finest hour, when you consider it featured the brilliant title track, Emerald, Cowboy Song, and The Boys Are Back In Town. sees the 45th anniversary of what is widely regarded as one of the greatest live albums of all time, Thin Lizzy's double platinum-selling Live And Dangerous, which was recorded in London and Philadelphia in 1977 during the Johnny the Fox and Bad Reputation tours. These six shows from London, Toronto and Philadelphia have been newly mixed by Ben Findlay from the original multi-tracks and mastered by Andy Pearce, overseen by legendary Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham. Besides, no change was as dramatic – not even snippets so subtly removed from R osalie, Dancing In The Moonlight, Baby Drives Me Crazy etc – as the re-sequencing necessary to make the 17 songs fit across four sides of vinyl.