Following Eric Bell’s departure, the band reconfigured as a twin-guitar quartet. When Phil’s two-year tenure with Skid Row came to an end, he and Downey formed Thin Lizzy, signed to Decca and scored a UK hit with ‘Whiskey In The Jar’. Then maybe a couple of weeks later I met him in school and he said, ‘Our drummer is leaving very shortly and there’s gonna be an audition and maybe you should go’.”ĭowney got the job, but the Black Eagles soon split. I thought, ‘I’d love to play with these guys,’ not thinking for a minute that I’d ever get the opportunity. He had this black glove and he was dressed completely in black, singing the Stones and early Beatles stuff, Elvis. Phil was just unbelievable, I couldn’t take my eyes off the guy. “A couple of years later I started playing in a band and I went down to check out the Black Eagles in the Apollo. He’d come in with this black baby box and he’d look at you and say, ‘Have you got your penny?’ And he’d come back the next day and if you didn’t have your penny, you’d feel bad, you know? He was designated this thing all the time. And then he’d come around to the classes with the black baby box that the Christian Brothers used to give to collect money for the missionaries. “I was in the schoolyard playing with a few friends and I thought, ‘Wow, look at that. “He was the only black guy in the whole place,” he recalls. Longtime Thin Lizzy drummer Brian Downey remembers clearly the first time he saw Lynott in the schoolyard of St Agnes’s CBS in Crumlin. Even as a gangly teenager, Phil Lynott was not the kind of individual who was easily ignored in 1960s Dublin.
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