Tomorrow will mark the twentieth anniversary of Phil Lynott's death. For those of you who know, raise a glass in his honour and plkay your favourite Lizzy/Lynott songs. For those of you who don't now, Phil Lynott was the front man of the first internationally successful Irish rock band, Thin Lizzy.

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I met him twice, once after a Lizzy gig in Ipswich and the last time at the Marquee Club in London where he was watching Black Flag and Bad Brains. Well, he wasn't watching them at all because he was at the bar with his back to the stage. I shook his hand and got him to sign the back of a poster I pulled off the wall. The conversation was amiable, but he was pretty drunk and stoned. I asked him what had happened to the band he was playing with (Grand Slam - who I'd seen at the Marquee) and he told me they were no more, and that he was thinking of getting Lizzy back together again "in the New Year". I've still got his autograph somewhere. I think he was blessed and cursed with genius, a romantic fronting a killer, kick ass take no prisoners hard rockin' outfit. On a good night Lizzy were peerless. On a great night the competition might as well never have been born. I saw them on two great nights and feel honoured to have been there. RIP Philo, you badass motherfucker.

Philip Parris Lynott.
A true original. You will NEVER be forgotten.
I was blasting 'Live and Dangerous' at work just today.
'Anyone here got any Irish in them?' Crowd roars.
'Any girls here want a little more Irish in them?'
He wrote so many great tunes.
Some of my favs are not well known,'Vagabaond of the western world'(which I think is about his dad),'Little girl in Bloom' is gorgeous, 'Rocky' and of course, 'The Rocker'.