This week marks the anniversary of the birth of the late Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy. Before Bono, before Bob Geldof, he was one of the first rock stars to come from Ireland, and with Thin Lizzy, Lynott helped define hard rock in the late 1970s. But there were other sides to his personality: he was a dreamer, a poet, a rocker and ... a cowboy? Before succumbing to alcohol and drug abuse and dying at the age of 36 in 1986, Phil Lynott wrote one of the best songs in rock history, "The Boys Are Back in Town."

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