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Nightlife is the fourth studio album by Irish band Thin Lizzy, released in 1974. It was produced by Ron Nevison and bandleader Phil Lynott, and was the first album to feature the band as a quartet with newcomers Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson on guitars.

Nightlife
Cover art by Jim Fitzpatrick
Studio album by Thin Lizzy
Released	8 November 1974
Recorded	April and September 1974[1]
Studio	Saturn, Worthing; Trident and Olympic, London[2]
Genre	Hard rock blues rock
Length	37:11
Label	Vertigo Mercury (Canada only)
Producer	Ron Nevison and Phil Lynott
Thin Lizzy chronology
Vagabonds of the Western World (1973) Nightlife (1974) Fighting (1975)
Singles from Nightlife
"Philomena" Released: 25 October 1974 "Showdown" Released: 1974 (US only) "It's Only Money" Released: January 1975 (Germany only) [3]

Some reissue CDs, and occasionally other sources, spell the album title as Night Life, the same as the song title. However the original album title is Nightlife.[1]

The song "Philomena" was written for Lynott's mother.[1]

Album artwork

The album cover, designed by Jim Fitzpatrick, shows a panther-like creature in a city scene. The panther is often thought to be intended to represent Lynott,[1] but Fitzpatrick has confirmed that the panther referred to the Black Panthers and African-American political figures like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.[4]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	7/10[6]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic described Nightlife as an "underrated gem of a record", but a "complete anomaly within their catalog"... "a subdued, soulful record, smooth in ways that Thin Lizzy never were before and rarely were afterwards". He singles out "She Knows" as "gently propulsive, [and] utterly addictive", but adds that there are "still moments of tough, primal rock 'n' roll", such as "It's Only Money" and "Sha La La".[5] Martin Popoff judged the album "more enigmatic, sincere and philosophically complex than much else rock 'n' roll out there at the time", but also "too distant from the band's heart and soul" and overtly into black music, with Lynott "searching for ways to pay homage to his racial heritage."[6]

Cover versions

• American metal band Slough Feg covered "Sha La La" on a 2006 split with Bible of the Devil, and again on their 2011 live album Made in Poland.[7]
• Concrete Blonde covered "It's Only Money" on their 1989 album Free.[8]
• "It's Only Money" was re-recorded 35 years later by Robertson on his 2011 solo album Diamonds and Dirt.[9]
• The Obsessed covered "It's Only Money" on their 2017 album Sacred.[10]
• John Norum covered "It's Only Money" on his 2010 album Play Yard Blues.
• Sade covered “Still In Love with You” as a new track on her 2011 collection The Ultimate Collection.

Track listings

The song "Night Life" borrows the title and chorus of Willie Nelson's 1960 song "Night Life", but Nelson is not credited on the album.[11]

On the cassette version, the positions of "She Knows" and "Showdown" were reversed.

Remastered edition

A remastered 2-CD set deluxe edition of Nightlife was released on 12 March 2012.

Singles

• Philomena/Sha-La-La – 7" (1974)
• It’s Only Money/Night Life – 7" (1974)
• Showdown/Night Life – 7" (1974)

Personnel

Thin Lizzy

• Phil Lynott – bass guitar, vocals, acoustic guitar, producer
• Scott Gorham – guitars
• Brian Robertson – guitars, backing vocals
• Brian Downey – drums, percussion

Additional musicians

• Frankie Miller – joint lead vocals on "Still in Love with You"
• Gary Moore – lead guitar on "Still in Love with You"
• Jean Alain Roussel – Hammond B3, piano on tracks 1, 4, 5 and 10
• Jimmy Horowitz – orchestral arrangements on tracks 1, 5 and 10

Production

• Ron Nevison – producer, engineer, mixing
• Ted Sharp – engineer
• Arnie Acosta – mastering at The Mastering Lab, Los Angeles

References

На других языках

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- [en] Nightlife (Thin Lizzy album)

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[es] Nightlife (álbum de Thin Lizzy)

Nightlife es el cuarto álbum de estudio de la banda irlandesa de hard rock Thin Lizzy, lanzado en 1974 y producido por Ron Nevison y Philip Lynott. La portada del álbum es una criatura tipo pantera en una ciudad, siendo la pantera una representación de Lynott.[1]

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