Thin Lizzy - Saturday Stayback

Channel 4 - 22nd January 1983

by Eamonn Jolley

It was a normal boring 'saving the pennies' week-night when I had a phone call off my girlfriend's mum, saying "get down the pub before closing, Thin Lizzy are coming to play"!

Well as The Dog on the Hagley Road, Bearwood, West Midlands is not your biggest pub I took some convincing, but as she was screaming down the phone I thought I'd better go. So I got on the phone to my mate Andy Cooke and got there, really not expecting what was about to happen.

The pub closed and there was only the staff and us, when the film crew walked in and started setting up their cameras, sound and lighting, we thought maybe?

Na, no way ...

Chris Tarrant and Bob Carrolgees came in and then this strong Dublin accent filled the room ...

On turning, there was the Legend ... Mr. Philip Lynott!

I was in total awe. I never even asked for an autograph. Luckily, my girlfriend took some pictures or I would not have believed it had happened!

They came in and belted out Cold Sweat and went.

It took less than ½ an hour!

The toilet was an outside one and when I went out, there was Scott Gorham!

Bet that was a shock for him, it was for me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JXgIhbw25M 

Thin Lizzy on ITV's Saturday Stayback from January 1983. This was filmed at The Dog Inn on Hagley Road, Bearwood, West Midlands.  

It was not filmed in an Irish Pub, Lizzy were merely introduced by Irish Comedian Frank Carson.

Rockers:

I’m sure this next YouTube clip was also filmed for Saturday Stayback at The Bear, but you’d have to do some investigating to find out for definite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ysSHINdExQ&feature=related

Rockers playing their only single We Are The Boys (Who Make All The Noise).

Credit: Eamonn Jolley, Stirchley, Birmingham.