Life (Thin Lizzy album) Life (Thin Lizzy album) Life (subtitled "Live", and labelled "Life:Live" on the original vinyl LP editions) is a double live album by Irish rock band Thin Lizzy, released in 1983. This double album was recorded during their farewell tour in 1983, principally at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, UK. Phil Lynott had felt reluctantly that it was time to disband the group after the 1983 tour and to mark the occasion, former Thin Lizzy guitarists Eric Bell (1969–73), Brian Robertson (1974–78) and Gary Moore (1974, 1977 and 1978–79) joined the band on stage at the end of these gigs to
Cowboy Song (Thin Lizzy song) Cowboy Song (Thin Lizzy song) "Cowboy Song" is a song by Thin Lizzy that originally appeared on their 1976 album "Jailbreak". Released as a single in an edited version, it reached № 77 on the US charts, but at the time did not gain as much attention as two of their most popular songs on the same album, "The Boys Are Back in Town" and "Jailbreak". The song was written by frontman Phil Lynott and drummer Brian Downey. Written from the perspective of a cowboy, the lyrics tell of his wandering across the United States through various adventures and romances.