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Thin Lizzy
The Boys Are Back In Town
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“The Boys Are Back in Town” is a single from Irish hard rock band Thin Lizzy. The song came out in 1976 on their album Jailbreak. It was honoured with the 499th position among the 2004 Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, though it was not included in the 2010 update. Rolling Stone praised lead singer Phil Lynott’s “Gaelic soul” and called the “twin-guitar lead by Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson” used “crucial to the song’s success”. The song is played at most Irish Rugby matches. In March 2005, Q magazine placed “The Boys Are Back in Town” at number 38 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. The song was used for the trailer of Toy Story, only instead of “boys”, they made the chorus sound like toys to go with the trailer.
Read on...Song lines: ♪ The boys are back in town, the boys are back in town ... The boys are back in town again ... Spread the word around ♫
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This song is listed #499 on Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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