The Philip Lynott Album

The Philip Lynott Album
Studio album by Philip Lynott
Released	17 September 1982
Recorded	1981, Good Earth Studios, Soho, London; Compass Point Studios, Nassau; Odyssey Studios, London Windmill Lane, Dublin
Genre	Rock
Label	Vertigo (UK) Mercury (Canada) Warner Bros. (US)
Producer	Philip Lynott, Kit Woolven "Together" by Midge Ure and "Ode to Liberty" mixed by Mark Knopfler and Neil Dorfsman
Philip Lynott chronology
Solo in Soho (1980) The Philip Lynott Album (1982) Live In Sweden 1983 (2001)

The Philip Lynott Album is the second solo album by Philip Lynott, released in 1982.

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Track listing

All tracks composed by Philip Lynott, except where indicated.

1. "Fatalistic Attitude" (R. Lymon, Lynott) – 4:31
2. "The Man's a Fool" – 2:58
3. "Old Town" (Jimmy Bain, Lynott) – 3:27
4. "Cathleen" – 3:34
5. "Growing Up" – 5:00
6. "Yellow Pearl" (Lynott, Midge Ure) – 2:58
7. "Together" – 3:39
8. "Little Bit of Water" – 3:35
9. "Ode to Liberty (The Protest Song)" (Jimmy Bain, Lynott) – 5:48
10. "Gino" – 4:10
11. "Don't Talk About Me Baby" – 4:30

Not included on the album was the B-side to the "Together" single, "Somebody Else's Dream" and the B-side to the "Old Town" single, "Beat of the Drum". Both later appeared on the Yellow Pearl Lynott solo compilation album in 2010. "Somebody Else's Dream" was performed live on The Old Grey Whistle Test to promote the album.

Personnel

• Philip Lynott – vocals, bass guitar, bass synthesiser, timpani & cymbal, CR 76 computer drum machines, guitar, Sarah's space gun, Irish harp, keyboards, percussion
• Midge Ure – guitar, keyboards, Linn drum machine (tracks 6, 7)
• Mark Knopfler – lead guitar (track 9)
• Jimmy Bain – bass guitar, backing vocals (tracks 2, 3)
• Jerome Rimson – bass guitar (tracks 7, 10)
• Scott Gorham – bass guitar (track 8)
• Darren Wharton – keyboards, drum machine
• Huey Lewis – harmonica (track 4)
• Mel Collins – saxophone (track 5)
• Rusty Egan – drums (tracks 2–4)
• Bobby C. Benberg – drums (track 8)
• Brian Downey – drums (track 9)
• Mark Nauseef – drums, percussion, vocal intro (track 10)
• Pierre Moerlen – drums (track 11)
• Gordon Johnson – intro voice (track 3)
• Suzanne Machon – intro voice (track 4)
• Monica Lynott – backing vocals (tracks 4, 5)