Rolling Stone ranked “The Boys Are Back in Town” as one of the greatest songs of all time, noting that the hard rock hit was “powered by the twin guitar attack of Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson and frontman Phil Lynott’s rowdy-night-out lyrics.”
"The Boys Are Back in Town” was written by Lynott. It was originally titled “GI Joe,” and it wasn’t initially considered a frontrunner for the Jailbreak album.
Gorham continued, “We accepted his judgment, but there was still work to be done, because the lyrics were anti-war, which wasn’t really right for us, and musically it wasn’t there. However, we sorted it all out, and ‘GI Joe’ turned into ‘The Boys Are Back In Town.’”
In a separate interview with HotPress.com, Gorham explained that Lynott agreed that the anti-war theme had already been “overdone” by so many other bands. “He turned it into more of a gang song,” the guitarist said of “The Boys Are Back in Town.”
Two disc jockeys gave the song traction
Once they reworked “The Boys Are Back in Town,” the Thin Lizzy bandmates still didn’t think it had hit potential.
He explained that two disc jockeys in Kentucky began to play the album track, which spawned requests for it at other radio stations. “Suddenly it was everywhere. The States, it seemed, had fallen in love with this tune,” he said.
Even with the radio buzz, the band remained unsure about the song and didn’t even include it in their shows.
"And honest to God, Phil said, 'Well, I guess we'd better put it back in the set!'’ Gorham recalled. “That's how unsure we were of what was going to be a single."
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