AC/DC were at the top of their game, but their singer was heading down a dangerous path. His last show was on January27, 1980, and just three weeks later he was dead
Source: Bon Scott’s final tour: the story of a road to ruin | Louder
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Bad Reputation: The real beginning and the real end of Thin Lizzy
Looking back now, 40 years on from its release, it’s impossible not to see Bad Reputation as both the peak of Thin Lizzy and the beginning of a long, drawn-out end. Brian Downey walked out not long after Gary Moore rejoined. “I was burnt out,” he says. “My health was really suffering. I needed to get away.”Enticed back for the Black Rose album in 1979, only to see Moore walk out for the third and final time halfway through the subsequent American tour, Downey looks back now on what he calls “the Thin Lizzy curse” with the admirably balanced perspective that only time and space can bring.“I try to forgive the bad and focus on the good times. In the studio, we never did 25 fucking takes of anything. On albums like Bad Reputation, if things weren’t happening, Phil would always come up with a master plan to save the song. ‘Okay, this is the new arrangement I have an idea for.’ And the new arrangement would normally work. That just shows you how talented Phil was.”
Read the whole sorry mess at Source: Bad Reputation: The real beginning and the real end of Thin Lizzy | Louder
The coming death of just about every rock legend
Actually this is a bullshit article but well worth reading for the perspective it provides or should I say POV.
Like all monumental acts of creativity, the artists were driven by an aspiration to transcend their own finitude, to create something of lasting value, something enduring that would live beyond those who created it.