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Phil Lynott: Songs for While I'm Away

7.3 112 mins Documentary   2020
Cowtown Pictures   Eagle Rock Film Productions  
Director(s): Emer Reynolds

A feature documentary on the life and music of Phil Lynott, telling the story of how a young black boy from working class 1950s Dublin became Ireland’s greatest Rock Star. As lead singer of Thin Lizzy, Phil Lynott was a songwriter, a poet, a dreamer, a wild man. Told extensively through the words of Lynott himself and focusing on some of his iconic songs, the film gets to the heart of Philip, the father, the husband, the friend, the son, the rock icon, the poet and the dreamer.

Casts of Phil Lynott: Songs for While I'm Away

Carl Shaaban

as Phil Lynott

Huey Lewis

as Self

James Hetfield

as Self

Adam Clayton

as Self

Eric Bell

as Self

Phil Lynott

as Self (archive footage)

Suzi Quatro

as Self

Midge Ure

as Self

Caroline Crowther

as Self (as Caroline Taraskevics)

Sarah Lynott

as Self

Cathleen Lynott

as Self

Monica Lynott

as Self

Peter Lynott

as Self

Niall Stokes

as Self

Diane Wagg

as Self

Darren Wharton

as Self

Kit Woolven

as Self

Hugh Feighery

as Self

Alan Byrne

as Self

Gus Curtis

as Self

Jim Fitzpatrick

as Self

Scott Gorham

as Self

Jerome Rimson

as Self

Brush Shiels

as Self

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