Tonight’s mystery artist lost his job in his first band due to tonsillitis. Think you can guess his name or the band he wound up in??

This interesting beginning was found on Ultimate Classic Rock about Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy.  Turns out he began in a band back in the 60’s called ‘Skid Row’(Irish group not the American, New Jersey version) when he developed tonsillitis causing him to have too many absences in their opinion so they fired him.  Turned out to be a bit of a stroke of  luck in the end though, a few years later he’d wind up in ‘Thin Lizzy’ with former ‘Skid Row’ bandmate Gary Moore.  And we all know how that turned out.

Here he is with tonight’s featured song.

And here he is with Gary in their former band ‘Skid Row’

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