Fans Pay Tribute To THIN LIZZY In Belfast
April 29, 2005BBC News is reporting that fans of Irish rock legends THIN LIZZY are set to pay tribute to the band at an event in Belfast.
The mother of frontman Phil Lynott is in the city to attend a special concert and take part in a show on BBC Radio Ulster.
Philomena Lynott campaigns against drug abuse, which she believes is getting worse.
Phil, 34, died of heart failure in a Wiltshire clinic in January 1986 after years of battling drug addiction.
THIN LIZZY broke up in 1983. Fans around the world have raised money for a statue of Phil to be erected in Dublin's Grafton Street later this year.
His mother said: "Philip loved Belfast — he absolutely loved it — and as a matter of fact, so do I.
"I try to tell young people the dangers of drugs — because the drugs killed him.
"He told all his friends not to let me know, and I used to say to Philip: 'Please never take heavy drugs'.
"The drugs are a killer and they are out there. They are in our schools — they are trapping our kids.
"If I can stop one mother going through what I went through, then I can go to my grave happy."
Read the rest of the article at BBC News.
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