THIN LIZZY - Phil Lynott's Family Publicly Acknowledges Son
July 26, 2010, 14 years ago
Ken Sweeney from Independent.ie is reporting:
The son of THIN LIZZY legend Phil Lynott has spoken of his happiness after finally being acknowledged by the family of the singer.
Galway-based sculptor Macdaragh Lambe made newspaper headlines in 2003 when he was revealed as Lynott's only son.
However, until yesterday his existence had never been publicly acknowledged by Phil Lynott's mother Philomena.
But in an interview with a Sunday newspaper yesterday, Mrs. Lynott broke her seven-year silence.
"I can answer you straightforward. Yes, he is Philip's son. Oh yeah, without a doubt. He has the same thumbs, like Philip used to slam the bass guitar, and eyes," she said.Her comments are of huge significance to Mr. Lambe, who earlier this year became a father.
Speaking to the Irish Independent last night, he said: "This is the first public acknowledgement the Lynott family have given me. I'm delighted, but more so for my son. It's going to be a lot easier for him now to say who he is."
"All my life growing up, people told me I looked like Phil Lynott from Thin Lizzy, so you can imagine what I thought when, after my parents died when I was 35, I tracked down the adoption papers and saw my father's name on the page was 'Philip' and his occupation was 'musician'. I thought how many black musicians could there have been working in Dublin in 1968 named Philip? That's when I said to myself, 'My dad is Phil Lynott'."
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