Artist: PHILIP LYNOTT
Album: SOLO IN SOHO REMASTERED (DIGI)

Year: 1980/ 2012
Media type: CD

Solo in Soho is the first solo album by Philip Lynott, released while he was still in Thin Lizzy. Current and former Lizzy members guested on the album including Scott Gorham, Brian Downey, Snowy White, and Gary Moore. Brian Robertson also contributed to the writing of Girls.

Guest musiciansDire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler plays on "King's Call", a lament to Elvis Presley. Huey Lewis plays harmonica on "Tattoo (Giving It All Up For Love)" and "Ode To A Black Man". Lewis later covered the former on his 1982 album, Picture This.

"Yellow Pearl" was released as a single in two remixed versions - the first of these being later used as the theme tune for the British TV programme Top of the Pops. This version was later included on Lynott's second solo album The Philip Lynott Album.

All songs by Philip Lynott, except where noted.

TRACKLIST:

1."Dear Miss Lonely Hearts" – 4:11
2."King's Call" – 3:40
3."A Child's Lullaby" – 2:43
4."Tattoo (Giving It All Up for Love)" – 3:21
5."Solo in Soho" – 4:15
6."Girls" – 4:00
7."Yellow Pearl" – 4:06
8."Ode to a Black Man" – 4:06
9."Jamaican Rum" – 2:43
10."Talk in 79" – 3:00

LINE-UP:

Philip Lynott – bass guitar, rhythm guitar, keyboards, minimoog, vocoder, string machine, percussion, vocals
Scott Gorham – guitars (tracks 1, 4, 8)
Snowy White – guitars (tracks 1, 5)
Mark Knopfler – electric guitar (track 2)
Gary Moore – guitar (track 9)
Jerome Rimson – bass guitar (track 5)
Huey Lewis – harmonica (tracks 4, 8)
Fiachra Trench – strings (tracks 3, 4)
Jimmy Bain – piano, synthesizer minimoog, string machine (track 6)
Billy Currie – ARP synthesizer (track 6)
Midge Ure – ARP synthesizer, mini moog, string machine (track 7)
Brian Downey – drums, percussion
Bob Benberg – drums, percussion (track 6)