Fighting
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Album Summary
Fighting came roaring out of Rockfield Studio in Wales and hit the streets through Vertigo Records in September of 1975, and baby, this was not just another album drop — this was a band being reborn. Producer John Alcock was behind the boards helping Thin Lizzy shape something raw and real, and what they captured on those tapes was nothing short of a revelation. Because for the very first time, the world got to hear Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson locked in together as a full twin-guitar unit across an entire album, those two guitars weaving around each other like two voices finishing each other's sentences. Phil Lynott and the boys had been through the lineup shuffles and the commercial heartbreaks, but inside those studio walls in Wales, Thin Lizzy finally found the sound they had been searching for — tighter, harder, and dripping with the kind of confidence that only comes when a band knows, deep in their bones, that they've arrived.
Reception
- Fighting stepped onto the UK Albums Chart and settled at number 60 upon its release — a modest showing by the numbers, but for a band that had been clawing and grinding for years, every rung on that ladder meant something real and the upward momentum was unmistakable.
- Critical voices in the rock press received the album warmly, with particular praise landing on the chemistry between Gorham and Robertson and the harder, more focused edge the band had developed — reviewers could hear that something special was being forged.
- The album did not ignite the charts in a blaze of commercial glory right out of the gate, but it built credibility and deepened the loyalty of a fanbase that would ride with Thin Lizzy straight into their greatest triumphs in the years that followed.
Significance
- Fighting stands as the historical document of the twin-lead guitar interplay between Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson being unveiled to the world for the first time across a full album — a technique that would ripple through hard rock and heavy metal for decades to come.
- The album marks the moment Thin Lizzy fully and unapologetically committed to their hard rock identity, weaving Celtic musical soul into driving rhythms and proving that Phil Lynott's vision was broad enough to contain multitudes without losing an ounce of grit.
- Among fans and music historians alike, Fighting is revered as the foundation stone of the classic Thin Lizzy era — the album where all the pieces clicked into place and pointed like an arrow straight toward the band's artistic peak.
Tracklist
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A1 Rosalie 133
3:20
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A2 For Those Who Love To Live 151
3:10
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A3 Suicide 141
5:15
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A4 Wild One 119
4:20
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A5 Fighting My Way Back 132
3:16
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B1 King's Vengenance —
4:10
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B2 Spirit Slips Away 109
4:44
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B3 Silver Dollar 141
3:28
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B4 Freedom Song 132
3:32
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B5 Ballad Of The Hard Man —
3:21
Artist Details
Thin Lizzy was a hard rock powerhouse that rolled out of Dublin, Ireland in 1969, led by the magnetic and soulful Phil Lynott, a Black Irish frontman whose deep groove sensibility gave the band a rhythm and blues heartbeat beneath all that electric thunder — and honey, nobody was doing it quite like that. They carved their name in rock history with that signature twin-guitar attack, pioneered by Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson, laying down anthems like The Boys Are Back in Town and Jailbreak that hit the airwaves in the mid-seventies like a freight train wrapped in silk. Thin Lizzy proved to the whole world that hard rock could have swagger, soul, and poetry all at once, and their influence can be heard echoing through decades of rock and roll that came long after their final bow.
