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“He started playing rhythm stuff and asked me to play lead. I said, ‘Pete, it’s your album’”: How Snowy White ended up working with Peter Green on In the Skies – the comeback album that lifted the blues rock legend out of obscurity

Green spent most of the 1970s out of the limelight, but a phone call to Snowy White helped get his career back on track

Guitar World

“I only asked them to play on my album because the record company thought a few well-known names would be a good selling point”: Snowy White tells the story of his 1994 collaboration with Gary Moore and David Gilmour

The album is packed with notable players who offer solos, slide, and plenty more, but the former Thin Lizzy man would have happily pushed on without them

Guitar World

“The Boys Are Back in Town is at least as memorable for its guitar breaks as for its chorus”: Thin Lizzy inspired Metallica, Iron Maiden, and the Cure, practically invented twin lead guitar, and have had 15 guitarists. Here’s your guide to all of them

Thin Lizzy are tough enough for punks, heavy enough for metalheads, poetic enough for romantics – and their catchy riffs and licks have been played by some of the finest guitarists on earth

Guitar World

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“John introduced a heavier, more intense element that Phil Lynott absolutely embraced”: How guitar hero John Sykes revitalised Thin Lizzy

A personal tribute from fellow Thin Lizzy member Darren Wharton

MusicRadar

“I was sort of hot in those days!”: The guitarist who had the cojones to replace Gary Moore in Thin Lizzy - and the chops to play alongside David Gilmour in Pink Floyd.

Snowy White on filling some very big shoes in 1980

MusicRadar

"I sat down on the stairs of my basement and just cried. It killed me that he wasn’t going to be there any more": The final struggle for the life of Phil Lynott

The final year of Phil Lynott's life saw him try to get his career back on track. Instead, it was 365 days of missed opportunities, lost passports and crazy deals

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Tokiyoshi Harada obituary

Other Lives: Bass player who collaborated with some of the biggest artists of the 1970s

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Snowy White: "It's funny that I used a Strat for Pigs on the Wing. I was so used to my Les Paul – I was surprised I felt as comfortable as I did. I still hated it, but I got through it"

The rock guitar gun for hire reveals why he was initially hesitant to play with Pink Floyd, how he divvied up parts with David Gilmour, and what it was like navigating the tension between Gilmour and Roger Waters

Guitar World

Here's what happened when cops raided a Thin Lizzy tour hoping to score a huge drugs bust

When the Royal Ulster Constabulary decided to go after Thin Lizzy for suspected drug abuse it resulted in road blocks, surprise backstage busts and strip searches – but not an ounce of cocaine to be found

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