James Walton

Doomed youth

Graeme Thomson’s account of the musician’s all-too-short life spent struggling against the odds packs a real emotional punch

  • Cowboy Song: The Authorised Biography of Phil Lynott

    Graeme Thomson

    Constable, pp. 362

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