Chinatown (Thin Lizzy album)
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Cover art by Jim Fitzpatrick
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| Studio album by Thin Lizzy | ||||
| Released | 10 October 1980 | |||
| Recorded | April – August 1980 | |||
| Studio | Good Earth Studios, London | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, blues rock | |||
| Length | 41:02 | |||
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Vertigo (UK) Mercury (Canada) Warner Bros. (US) |
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| Producer | Thin Lizzy & Kit Woolven | |||
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| AllMusic |
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| Martin Popoff |   |
Chinatown is the tenth studio album by Irish band Thin Lizzy, released in 1980. It introduced guitarist Snowy White who would also perform on the next album as well as tour with Thin Lizzy between 1980 and 1982; he replaced Gary Moore as permanent guitarist. White had previously worked with Cliff Richard, Peter Green and Pink Floyd. Chinatown also featured seventeen-year-old Darren Wharton on keyboards, and he joined Thin Lizzy as a permanent member later that year.
Greg Prato of Allmusic described Chinatown as a "letdown" compared to the previous album Black Rose: A Rock Legend, blaming the absence of Gary Moore and producer Tony Visconti, and the drug problems experienced by Phil Lynott and Scott Gorham. Prato praised side one as containing the best material, including the "anthemic" "We Will Be Strong", and the "pop perfection" of "Sweetheart". However, he described side two as "comprised almost entirely of bland filler", although he believed that Chinatown was "not their worst album".
All songs by Phil Lynott, except where noted.
A new remastered and expanded edition of Chinatown was released on 27 June 2011. This new edition is a 2-CD set, with the original album on disc one, and bonus material on disc two.
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