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Phil Lynott was born in Hallam Hospital in West Bromwich, England on 20 August 1949. He first attended school in Moss Side, Manchester. In 1957, due to accounts of racism and Lynott being mixed race, his mother sent him to live with his grandparents in Crumlin, Dublin. His most commercially successful group was Thin Lizzy, of which he was a founding member, the principal songwriter, lead vocalist and bassist.