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Members included Eric Bell (born September 3, 1947, in Belfast, Northern Ireland; left band), guitar; Brian Downey (born January 27, 1951, in Dublin, Ireland), drums; Scott Gorham (born March 17, 1951, in Santa Monica, CA; replaced Bell), guitar; Phil Lynott (born August 20, 1951, in Dublin; died of heart failure resulting from acute blood poisioning and pneumonia, January 4, 1986; married Caroline Crowther, 1980; children: Sarah, Cathleen), vocals, bass, songwriter; Brian Robertson (born September 12, 1956, in Glasgow, Scotland; replaced Bell; left band, 1978), guitar.
Phil Lynott, described in the Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock & Soul as a "brash black musician-poet from Dublin," founded Thin Lizzy in 1969 along with drummer and childhood buddy Brian Downey.
The label "poet" stems from Lynott's early attempts at verse, which received