Chords for Phil Lynott - Interview (The Late Late Show_1981)

Would you welcome please Phil Linnet.
There he is.
_ Oh, look at that.
Oh, so busy smiles.
Great to see you. _ _
_ _ How are you? _ _ _
_ _ I heard that the white affects the camera.
That'll affect the camera as well.
But it makes a nice contrast.
Makes a nice contrast.
My mummy and mother's there.
I thought it looks nice.
I know, looks very well.
Your mum too, we'll be talking to her in a moment.
What's this about going to live in Hoth?
Come on.
Well, it's where the big knobs hang out.
Don't you know that game?
_ [C#] Can you see Cromlund from Hoth?
No, I wish I could.
_ It ruins the image, you know, Phil.
Ruins the image.
Well, I was looking for a place to live in Ireland.
Because, you know, when I moved away,
I thought, well, I must come home.
Because I really suffer from homesickness.
If I don't get back to Dublin,
not so much Ireland, Dublin,
I'm a real Dublin man,
if I don't get back to Dublin within three months,
then I really start to suffer from homesickness.
So, when we got married,
I sent the wife over and said,
save your luck, Ireland.
And she did.
So, I sent her looking for a house.
And she didn't like the south side,
because the motorways and all go out that way, you know.
So, she went for the south side.
And she settled for the north side.
And you're settling in well, are you?
Oh, yes, great.
What are the babby's names?
I have Sarah, which is a song
that I had a hit with.
And I have a new daughter now called Kathleen.
Kathleen.
Oh, Kathleen.
[N] I was looking for an Irish name
that wasn't too pretentious.
You know, like, _
don't get me wrong, anybody who has daughters knows this.
But you know that, like,
when you hear Saoirse or Tara or_ Sinéad.
Yeah, it sounds pretentious.
I was looking for a good Irish name.
I thought Mary was a bit too over the top.
So, I thought Kathleen would be nice
if you spelt it with a C.
Now, what has marriage done to you, Phil?
_ It's made me
faithful to one woman. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ That's because the mammy is here.
And because herself is watching at home on hold.
But we've been eating.
Really?
Really?
I wouldn't have got married otherwise.
And what else, then, has it made you_
It has brought out emotions in me.
You know, becoming a father
and having the kids and stuff
and the responsibility of the marriage
has really brought_
I honestly didn't think I had the emotions
that I have in me
till I got married and had the children.
You know, now_
I know there's lots of single fellas
looking and they're going,
oh, yeah.
It's amazing when you do get married and have children
how much
passion it can bring out
and how defensive you become
for your family and how_
Like, I never would have worried
about the news.
You know, I could have looked at the news
and said, the world is going to end tomorrow.
It wouldn't have bothered me, you know.
But having the children,
like, it worries me.
If I see, like, there is a couple of agents
in control of power up there,
then it really annoys me
because all of a sudden it's not me that they're affecting,
they could affect my children's life and that's_
That becomes very important.
And being in a group, Phil, like Thin Lizzy,
the fact that you're married and have two
doesn't interfere with the image.
I mean, what's the reaction from the kids now?
Well, the thing is, now,
when Thin Lizzy
started, I had a bit of a
wild boy image, you know.
Ah, no.
Honestly, you wouldn't believe
it to look at me, would you?
The white suit, no.
But, er, _ when_
When all that
started to happen, you know,
I went for it, cos, like,
I was tired of hearing rock and roll stars
saying how sorry they were for themselves,
you know, like how they disliked
fame and how they were bothered.
I jumped at it, you know,
I was famous, I thought, great, the women are after me,
you know, like, people want to
buy me free drink, you know,
they want to treat me, they want to take me here,
they want to take me there.
Great.
And, you know, I really went for it,
hook, line and sinker.
And, you know, since I got married,
all of a sudden,
it's not as important anymore,
you know, as
the actual art of making music
and the art of self-expression.
Yeah.
In which I work, because I'm very happy,
my private life, I like to keep very
private.
Yes.
And, er,
I'm very happy with my private
life, you know.
Tell me about
the Jimi Hendrix part.
How
close is that now?
Well,
_ I can't talk too much about it,
cos it could affect
me in two ways.
One,
I could talk about it so much_
Yeah.
That the
price that I'd be asking to do
for the film, right,
would drop.
Would drop, right.
Yes.
So, er, it could
affect me.
See, the script,
there's two ways you can look on Jimi
Hendrix, right?
There's two sides
to Jimi Hendrix.
If you're not_
I don't
expect most of the audience here to know
about Jimi Hendrix too
well.
But Jimi Hendrix
as an
artist was very deep
and very involved, and he
believed entirely in what he was
doing.
But as a public
figure, he was just like
fodder for the media,
you know, because he_
He was a wild man.
Oh, he was.
He was, like, he indulged
in everything, you see.
And
he died by the way he lived.
But as an artist,
you can't take_
Well, for me,
he was one of my heroes, you know.
Like, he was
one of the true inspir_
He showed to me that
a black fella could be
the front of a band
and, like, be
completely respected for what he did.
_ And
I've_
To fly to America
to do a screen test, not only for the Jimi
Hendrix film, there's a couple of films they want me
to do now.
And ever
since, like, I mean_
Okay, Sydney Pudge's life story.
Joe Lewis.
You know.
Black, you name it, you know. _