• Shades of a Blue Orphanage is the second studio album by Irish rock band Thin Lizzy, released in 1972. The title is a combination of the members' previous...
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    Lizzy, Shades of a Blue Orphanage and Vagabonds of the Western World, as well as their hit single "Whiskey in the Jar". He co-wrote a number of songs with...
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  • ISBN 978-1894959025. Berman, Stuart (3 March 2015). "Thin Lizzy: Shades of a Blue Orphanage/Vagabonds of the Western World". Pitchfork. Retrieved 3 March 2015....
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    release of the unsuccessful "New Day" EP in August. Despite poor sales, Decca agreed to finance the band's second album Shades of a Blue Orphanage, released...
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  • out of print, but all of the altered tracks were re-released as bonus tracks on the 2010 remastered versions of Thin Lizzy, Shades of a Blue Orphanage and...
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    Phil Lynott (category Blue plaques)
    During the recording of the band's second album, Shades of a Blue Orphanage (1972), Lynott very nearly left Thin Lizzy to form a new band with Deep Purple's...
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  • Lynott wrote about a member of his family titled "Sarah", the first song by this name having appeared on 1972's Shades of a Blue Orphanage, written about...
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  • Lynott's grandmother, from their second album, Shades of a Blue Orphanage.: 172  On early US pressings of Black Rose, the song was incorrectly titled "My...
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    that he do a whole blues album. This change in musical style was also underlined by a change in Moore's wardrobe. He now sported a smart blue suit for videos...
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    Michal Kulbalka and Joe Merriman. Thin Lizzy (1971) Shades of a Blue Orphanage (1972) Vagabonds of the Western World (1973) Nightlife (1974) Fighting (1975)...
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