Phil Lynott's Mother Objects to Mitt Romney using Thin Lizzy's Music

LittleBook

Phil Lynott's Mother Objects to Mitt Romney Using Thin Lizzy's Music

The mother of Irish rock legend Phil Lynott has objected to the Mitt Romney campaign using Thin Lizzy's music at last week's Republican National Convention.

Philomena Lynott said her son would not have approved of the US Republicans playing the Thin Lizzy anthem "The Boys Are Back In Town" at Romney's nomination as presidential candidate.

She said that the late Thin Lizzy front man would have rejected any association with the Republicans particularly the Christian right wing of the party.

The Dublin woman told the Irish music magazine "Hot Press" that she was upset that one of her son's most famous rock songs was used by the Republicans to endorse Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan.

The Thin Lizzy singer would have opposed the Republican anti-gay and pro-rich policies, she said. Instead she believed her son would have backed Barack Obama.

She told the magazine: "As far as I am concerned, Mitt Romney's opposition to gay marriage and to civil unions for gays makes him anti-gay – which is not something that Philip would have supported. He had some wonderful gay friends, as indeed I do, and they deserve equal treatment in every respect, whether in Ireland or the United States.

"Neither would Philip have supported his policy of taxing the poor and offering tax cuts to the rich, which Paul Ryan is advocating. There is certainly no way that I would want the Lynott name to be associated with any of those ideas.

"There is nothing I can do about it except express my views," Philomena Lynott added, "but I do want to be clear that I would not want Philip's music to be used in any way that could hurt a single person, and this is the effect of what happened with Paul Ryan using and abusing my son's music in that way. A lot of fans and musicians are very angry about it and I can fully understand why.

"There is a black president of America, which to me – as it would have been to Philip, as a proud, black Irishman – is wonderfully symbolic.

I have a lot of time for Barack Obama, so to hear 'The Boys Are Back in Town' being appropriated by Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan in their campaign against him is deeply upsetting."

The now 81-year-old Philomena Lynott wrote a best-selling autobiography My Boy about the extraordinarily difficult times she and Philip endured in the UK and Ireland at the beginning of the '50s, following Philip's birth in 1949.

Good on ya Philomena.

BraziliaNZ

How she still gets in the press to this day is beyond me!

Huggles

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

How she still gets in the press to this day is beyond me!

While sometimes I find her motives quite dubious I think in this instance she is totally spot on!

--Kaiser--

I don't believe a word of this

GonzoPunch

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

I don't believe a word of this

Why not?
It seems perfectly realistic to me.

SEPT 23 1989

This could spell the end of Romneys campaign

Sunnyisland

Gonzo Punch wrote: »

Why not?
It seems perfectly realistic to me.

One of Thin Lizzy's must famous songs is called Don't believe a word

--Kaiser--

GonzoPunch wrote: »

Why not?
It seems perfectly realistic to me.

Believe it if you want, you can do anything you want to

GonzoPunch

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

GonzoPunch wrote: »

Why not?
It seems perfectly realistic to me.

Believe it if you want, you can do anything you want to

I'm well aware of that, and also know and love that song. I was merely asking a question.

LittleBook

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Believe it if you want, you can do anything you want to

Sure, but when the sun goes down, you have to admit the Republicans have earned their bad reputation.

Duggy747

"Ooh-ee-ooh-ah-ah, ting-tang-walla-walla-bing-bang"

Best Thin Lynott song ever.

Run_to_da_hills

The "Renegade" is the CIA code name given to Barack Obama.

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FatherLen

i used to think she was mad as a brush. i still do but now i respect her a bit more.

dr.bollocko

We have a classic rock forum for this!
:mad:

Sorry.

Always wanted to say that.

nudger

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

The "Renegade" is the CIA code name given to Barack Obama.

.

You couldn't make that up, brilliant.:D

anncoates

Is she the one that didn't even bother bringing him up but is now The Grieving Mother because he ended up rich and famous?

Note how he called his daughter Sarah (after his granny that reared him) and not Philomena.

Bassfish

The thoughts of a Romney-Ryan white house brings me out in a COLD SWEAT!!
.....gets coat.

Lumbo

anncoates wrote: »

Is she the one that didn't even bother bringing him up but is now The Grieving Mother because he ended up rich and famous?

Note how he called his daughter Sarah (after his granny that reared him) and not Philomena.

If he'd called her Philomena you'd be saying he named the kid after himself and not his mother.
















:pac:

BostonB

Lads you've Got to Give It Up so lets not start a Holy War about it.

JohnMarston

Bassfish wrote: »

The thoughts of a Romney-Ryan white house brings me out in a COLD SWEAT!!

Because you spent all your money on that last bet? :rolleyes:

anncoates

BostonB wrote: »

Lads you've Got to Give It Up so lets not start a Holy War about it.

Don't get involved or I'll kick your face so hard you'll soon be seeing double.

--Kaiser--

dr.bollocko wrote: »

We have a classic rock forum for this!
:mad:

Sorry.

Always wanted to say that.

When did that happen? Who did you have to sleep with?

StephenHendry

good on her i say, someone has to stick up for philo. i didnt like some of the stuff she was saying about the late gary moore a few years back but hey nobody's perfect.

Mr Benevolent

Wait, isn't she getting royalties from every play of every TL song?

dr.bollocko

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

When did that happen? Who did you have to sleep with?

All of them.

I slept with all of them.

Father Damo

anncoates wrote: »

Note how he called his daughter Sarah (after his granny that reared him) and not Philomena.

I doubt many women born in Ireland post 1960 has been cursed with an oul one name like Philomena, maybe that is why.

Glass houses and all that but ffs he was one of three children she ended up giving up to the state! One is understandable. Two at a push. But three? (that we know of).

anncoates

Father Damo wrote: »

I doubt many women born in Ireland post 1960 has been cursed with an oul one name like Philomena, maybe that is why.

Glass houses and all that but ffs he was one of three children she ended up giving up to the state! One is understandable. Two at a push. But three? (that we know of).

Ir's Ireland. We're whores for the rich and famous.

If it was some young one from Tallaght that had 3 kids by 3 different fathers and two were given up for adoption and one sent to live with his granny, she be pilloried on here to the dogs and back. One of them, however, turned out to be famous so she's a great auld skin and a national celebrity.

See also the curious anomaly where any criticism of wealthy and famous Irish people is seen being jealous or begrudging.

ejmaztec

This is good news for Gary Glitter, who will probably end up spear-heading Romney's campaign with "Leader of the gang".

LittleBook

anncoates wrote: »

Ir's Ireland. We're whores for the rich and famous ... See also the curious anomaly where any criticism of wealthy and famous Irish people is seen being jealous or begrudging

Speak for yourself.

anncoates wrote: »

If it was some young one from Tallaght that had 3 kids by 3 different fathers and two were given up for adoption and one sent to live with his granny, she be pilloried on here to the dogs and back

Maybe by you. But yeah, a single woman having kids nowadays in Tallaght is exactly the same as a single woman having kids in the 1950s.

anncoates wrote: »

Is she the one that didn't even bother bringing him up but is now The Grieving Mother because he ended up rich and famous?

I don't know the intimate details of this woman's life or why she did what she did and neither do you. Why she, or indeed Lynott himself, gave up their children for adoption can't be truly known or understood by us.

But this thread is about the irony of a man like Mitt Romney using a Phil Lynott song at his convention and Lynott's mother is spot on here.

anncoates

LittleBook wrote: »

I don't know the intimate details of this woman's life .

Everybody knows since she never shuts the fuck up about it.

K3lso

"There is a black president of America, which to me – as it would have been to Philip, as a proud, black Irishman – is wonderfully symbolic."

Wtf does that mean?

anncoates

K3lso wrote: »

"There is a black president of America, which to me – as it would have been to Philip, as a proud, black Irishman – is wonderfully symbolic."

Wtf does that mean?

More sales of the autobiography.

ejmaztec

K3lso wrote: »

"There is a black president of America, which to me – as it would have been to Philip, as a proud, black Irishman – is wonderfully symbolic."

Wtf does that mean?

It's a secret code for you to decipher for us.

LittleBook

anncoates wrote: »

Everybody knows since she never shuts the fuck up about it.

Neither do you apparently.

anncoates

LittleBook wrote: »

Neither do you apparently.

Devastating retort.

Min

K3lso wrote: »

"There is a black president of America, which to me – as it would have been to Philip, as a proud, black Irishman – is wonderfully symbolic."

Wtf does that mean?

I am not sure what Philomena has done to herself, maybe something to do with a sex change and opposite to what Michael Jackson did to his skin.

LittleBook

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

The "Renegade" is the CIA code name given to Barack Obama.

today, the [code] names simply serve for purposes of brevity, clarity, and tradition

As opposed to, ya know, their names. :pac:

mikom

Bassfish wrote: »

The thoughts of a Romney-Ryan white house brings me out in a COLD SWEAT!!
.....gets coat.

I always get chocolate stains on my pants...

BostonB

mikom wrote: »

I always get chocolate stains on my pants...

sssh you'll get a Bad Reputation.

BostonB

LittleBook wrote: »

Neither do you apparently.

You can't fault her Dedication.