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Fact #67801

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Short story:

Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy dies in hospital in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, from heart failure, pneumonia, and other conditions caused by drug abuse.

Full article:

Nigel Grainge (A + R Man, Phonogram Records) : Anyone who knew Phil was aware of the fact that he was doing drugs. I've never really done drugs myself but I remember Phil gave me some once during one of the early recording sessions. It nearly killed me. I crawled on all fours to the toilet and tried to throw up but couldn't believe that people did this for fun. But the thing about Phil is that his drugs problem didn't just happen overnight, it happened over a number of years.

Curiously though, during his early days with Phonogram I'd always been more concerned about his womanising. He was notorious with women and that was the main threat to his health as far as I was concerned. One wondered how he stayed alive on that level.

The last time that I had any really deep conversation with him would have been in '80 or '81, around the time of his wedding and he seemed fine then. I don't think the drugs had begun to take hold of his body until much later and by then we only ever met very casually at parties or gigs or whatever. However, anytime I ever enquired about Phil's drugs usage, I was continually assured by management that it wasn't out of control, that it wasn't a problem.
(Source : http://www.nigelgrainge.com/biography-hotpressarticle.html)