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Solo in Soho | ||||
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![]() Cover photo by
John Swannell | ||||
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Released | 18 April 1980
[1] May 1980 (Japan) | |||
Recorded | Winter 1979–early 1980 | |||
Studio | Good Earth Studios, Soho, London, Compass Point Studios, Nassau, The Bahamas | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 35:47 | |||
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Vertigo (Europe and Japan) Mercury (Canada) Warner Bros. (US) | |||
Producer | Philip Lynott, Kit Woolven | |||
Philip Lynott chronology | ||||
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Singles from Solo in Soho | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 9/10 [3] |
Hot Press | (mixed) [4] |
Music Week | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Smash Hits | 5/10 [6] |
Solo in Soho is the debut solo album by Irish rock singer Philip Lynott, released while he was still in Thin Lizzy. Current and former Lizzy members guested on the album, including Scott Gorham, Brian Downey, Snowy White, and Gary Moore. Brian Robertson also contributed to the writing of one of the tracks, "Girls".
Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler plays on the single "King's Call", a lament to Elvis Presley. Huey Lewis plays harmonica on "Tattoo (Giving It All Up for Love)" and "Ode to a Black Man". Lewis later covered "Tattoo" on the 1982 Huey Lewis and the News album Picture This, titled "Giving It All Up for Love".
" Yellow Pearl" was released as a single in two remixed versions; the first of these was later used as the theme tune from 1981 until 1986 for the popular BBC TV music programme Top of the Pops. This version was later included on Lynott's second solo album, The Philip Lynott Album.
Billboard's reviewer left positive review on an album by saying that Lynott's "lyrics have special appeal". He resumed: "There is nothing here even vaguely similar to the dramatic rock energy of " The Boys Are Back in Town" yet this is a bold and interesting batch of tunes aided by uncluttered arrangements and sound playing". [7]
All songs by Philip Lynott, except where noted.
Album
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Singles
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This article needs additional citations for
verification. (October 2013) |
Solo in Soho | ||||
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![]() Cover photo by
John Swannell | ||||
Studio album by | ||||
Released | 18 April 1980
[1] May 1980 (Japan) | |||
Recorded | Winter 1979–early 1980 | |||
Studio | Good Earth Studios, Soho, London, Compass Point Studios, Nassau, The Bahamas | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 35:47 | |||
Label |
Vertigo (Europe and Japan) Mercury (Canada) Warner Bros. (US) | |||
Producer | Philip Lynott, Kit Woolven | |||
Philip Lynott chronology | ||||
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Singles from Solo in Soho | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 9/10 [3] |
Hot Press | (mixed) [4] |
Music Week | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Smash Hits | 5/10 [6] |
Solo in Soho is the debut solo album by Irish rock singer Philip Lynott, released while he was still in Thin Lizzy. Current and former Lizzy members guested on the album, including Scott Gorham, Brian Downey, Snowy White, and Gary Moore. Brian Robertson also contributed to the writing of one of the tracks, "Girls".
Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler plays on the single "King's Call", a lament to Elvis Presley. Huey Lewis plays harmonica on "Tattoo (Giving It All Up for Love)" and "Ode to a Black Man". Lewis later covered "Tattoo" on the 1982 Huey Lewis and the News album Picture This, titled "Giving It All Up for Love".
" Yellow Pearl" was released as a single in two remixed versions; the first of these was later used as the theme tune from 1981 until 1986 for the popular BBC TV music programme Top of the Pops. This version was later included on Lynott's second solo album, The Philip Lynott Album.
Billboard's reviewer left positive review on an album by saying that Lynott's "lyrics have special appeal". He resumed: "There is nothing here even vaguely similar to the dramatic rock energy of " The Boys Are Back in Town" yet this is a bold and interesting batch of tunes aided by uncluttered arrangements and sound playing". [7]
All songs by Philip Lynott, except where noted.
Album
|
Singles
|