![]() But after they moved to London, Lynott’s drug-taking went into overdrive. The wildman founded Thin Lizzy in 1969 with Whisky In The Jar catapulting the band to fame three years later. He told music producer Tony Visconti “she turned me on to smoking spliffs when I was 13”.Īnd author Graeme Thomson reveals it was while bunking down in Skid Row boss Brian Tuite’s house that Lynott started talking to teddy bears on wallpaper in a children’s room – high on “magic grass”. Years later, Lynott blamed his habit on his mother. “It was something that could keep him going day and night.” “I don’t think it was acid, ” says Shiels. ![]() Lynott never spoke about his son’s birth or adoption – and not long afterwards Skid Row bandmate Brush Shiels found he was on drugs. When Carole returned, she says they went to the cinema where “we sat at the back and sobbed”. At 17, after fronting several teen bands, he fell in love with pretty Carole Stephen while a member of Irish group Skid Row.īut when she got pregnant she was sent to a home for unmarried mothers 60 miles from Dublin – and forced to give their son away. “We were only babies, there wasn’t any racism,” he adds.Īnd rascal Lynott used to steal from a school collection box for children in Africa “because I’m one of the black babies”, his mum reveals in new biography Cowboy Song. In those early days, pupils lined up to touch his curly hair, says classmate Liam O’Connor. As a mixed-race Catholic lad, his skin colour marked him out at the tough Scoil Colm Christian Brothers school where beatings were rife and “boys vomited with fear in the school yard”.
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