Songs for While I'm Away
© Break Out Pictures
Synopsis
This distinctive, epic, visual, ambitious and celebratory feature documentary, tells the story of how a young black boy from working class 1950s Dublin, became Ireland’s Greatest Rock Star. As lead singer of Thin Lizzy, Phil Lynott was a songwriter, a poet, a dreamer, a wildman. He wrote some of the most iconic and extraordinary rock songs the British Isles ever produced, and his rise from humble beginnings - a council estate raised by his grandmother - to sell out stadiums and international stardom, was spectacular and unprecedented.
Told extensively through the words of Phil himself, and focusing on his iconic songs, the film weaves together audiotapes and rare home movies; features rarely and never-before seen archive, magnificent photographs and portraits; celebrates and explores the recollections and stories of those who knew and loved him - his family, his friends, his collaborators, and those inspired by him; deconstructs the songs and the songwriter; features loud and proud the glorious Lizzy performances; all woven in a collage of voice, image, memory and opinion, offering a powerful and definitive insight into the life and work of this iconic rock star.
Details
- Year
- 2020
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 112 mins
- Director
- Emer Reynolds
- Producer
- Alan Maher, John Wallace, Peter Worsley
- Editor
- Tony Cranstoun
- Director of Photography
- Kate McCullough
- Music
- Ray Harman
- Principal Cast
- Carl Shaaban
- Assistant Editor
- Jackie Jarvis
Genre
Production status
Post-production
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Last updated 10th June 2020
