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[[Image:Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's marble sculpture 'Ugolino and his Sons', Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's marble sculpture 'Ugolino and his Sons', Metropolitan Museum of Art]] |
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[[Image:Jean-Baptiste_Carpeaux_La_Danse.jpg|thumb|right|400px|La Danse (The Dance), Opera Garnier in Paris]] |
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| Name = Phil Lynott |
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| Img = Phillynott.jpg |
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| Img_capt = Live on stage |
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| Background = solo_singer |
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| Birth_name = Philip Parris Lynott |
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| Born = [[20 August]] [[1949]]<br>{{flagicon|England}} [[West Bromwich, England|West Bromwich]], [[England]] |
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| Died = {{Euro death date and age|1986|1|4|1949|8|20}}<br>{{flagicon|England}} [[Salisbury]], [[Wiltshire]], [[England]] |
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| Instrument = [[Guitar]], [[Bass guitar|Bass]], [[Piano]], [[Mini Moog]], [[Synthesizer]], [[Keyboards]] |
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| Genre = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[Heavy metal]], [[Hard rock]] |
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| Occupation = [[Musician]], [[Singer|Vocalist]], [[Record producer|Producer]] |
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| Associated_acts = [[Thin Lizzy]]<br/>[[Skid Row (blues-rock band)|Skid Row]]<br/>[[Gary Moore]]<br/>[[Baby Face (blues-rock band)|Baby Face]] |
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| Influences = [[Jimi Hendrix]]<br/>[[Led Zeppelin]]<br/>[[Van Morrison]] |
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'''Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux''' ([[May 11]], [[1827]], [[Valenciennes]] –[[October 12]], [[1875]], [[Courbevoie]]) was a French sculptor and painter. His early studies were under [[François Rude]]. Carpeaux won the [[Prix de Rome]] in [[1854]], and moving to [[Rome]] to find inspiration, he there studied the works of [[Michelangelo Buonarroti|Michelangelo]], [[Donatello]] and [[Andrea del Verrocchio|Verrocchio]]. Staying in Rome from [[1854]] to [[1861]], he obtained a taste for movement and spontaneity, which he joined with the great principles of [[baroque art]]. In [[1861]] he made a bust of [[Mathilde Bonaparte|Princess Mathilde]], and this later brought him several commissions from [[Napoleon III]]. He worked at the pavilion of [[Flora (goddess)|Flora]], and the [[Opéra Garnier]]. His group La Danse (the Dance, [[1869]]), situated on the right side of the façade, was criticised as an offence to common decency. |
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'''Philip Parris Lynott''' ([[August 20]], [[1949]]–[[January 4]], [[1986]]) was an [[Irish People|Irish]] [[singer]], [[instrumentalist]] and [[songwriter]], who first came to prominence as a member of [[Thin Lizzy]]. |
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He never managed to finish his last work, the famous Fountain of the Four Parts of the Earth, on the Place Camille Jullian. He did finish the terrestrial globe, supported by the four figures of [[Asia]], [[Europe]], [[North America|America]] and [[Africa]], and it was [[Emmanuel Frémiet]] who completed the work by adding the eight leaping horses, the tortoises and the dolphins of the basin. |
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==Early life== |
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Lynott was born in Hallam Hospital (now [[Sandwell General Hospital]]) in [[West Bromwich]] (then in [[Staffordshire]]), [[England]], the son of a [[Brazil]]ian father, Cecil Parris, and an [[Irish people|Irish]] [[Catholic]] mother, Philomena (aka Phyllis) Lynott, whose surname he adopted. His father left his mother just three weeks after he was born and returned to his native Brazil[http://www.thin-lizzy.com/]. He was brought up in [[Moss Side]], [[Manchester]] before moving to [[Crumlin, Dublin]], whilst he was still quite young, to live with his grandmother, Sarah. His parents reportedly kept in touch for a number of years after his birth, but Lynott did not meet his father until the late 1970s. |
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== Sculptures by Carpeaux == |
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==Music career== |
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In the mid-1960s, Lynott began singing in his first band, the Black Eagles. It was around this time that he befriended [[Brian Downey (drummer)|Brian Downey]]. He formed [[Thin Lizzy]] around 1969 in Dublin after a short stint in Brush Shiels' [[Skid Row (blues-rock band)|Skid Row]] with [[Gary Moore]]. Lynott was the main songwriter for Thin Lizzy, as well as the [[lead singer]] and [[bassist]]. Lynott was half black, and was inspired by [[Jimi Hendrix]] as an example of how a black man could be successful fronting a hard rock band. Their first top ten hit was in 1973 with the traditional Irish song "[[Whiskey in the Jar]]". |
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* Ugolin et ses fils - [[Ugolino della Gherardesca|Ugolino]] and his Sons (1861, in the permanent collection of the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]])[[http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000009025.html]] with versions in other museums including the [[Musée d'Orsay]] |
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In 1978, he was featured in ''[[Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds]]'', singing and speaking the role of The Parson. In 1979, under the name of "The Greedies", he recorded a Christmas single, "A Merry Jingle", featuring other members of Thin Lizzy as well as [[Steve Jones (musician)|Steve Jones]] and [[Paul Cook]] of the [[Sex Pistols]]. |
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* The Dance (commissioned for the [[Palais Garnier|Opera Garnier]]) |
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* Jeune pêcheur à la coquille - [[Naples|Neapolitan]] Fisherboy - in the [[Louvre]], [[Paris]] [[http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000034255.html]] |
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* Girl with Shell |
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* [[Antoine Watteau]] monument, [[Valenciennes]] |
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==Neapolitan Fisherboy== |
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Though Thin Lizzy were still enjoying considerable success, in 1980 Phil Lynott launched a solo career with the album ''[[Solo in Soho]]'', which was a Top 30 UK album and yielded two hit singles that year, "Dear Miss Lonelyhearts" and "King's Call". The latter was a tribute to [[Elvis Presley]], and featured [[Mark Knopfler]] on guitar. His second solo venture, ''The Phil Lynott Album'' was a chart flop, despite the presence of the single "Old Town". The song "Yellow Pearl" (1982), was a Top 20 hit and became the theme tune to ''[[Top Of The Pops]]''. |
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Carpeaux submitted a plaster version of ''Pêcheur napolitain à la coquille'', the Neapolitan Fisherboy, to the [[French Academy]] while a student in [[Rome]]. He carved the marble version several years later, showing it in the Salon exhibition of 1863. It was purchased for [[Napoleon III]]'s empress, [[Eugénie de Montijo|Eugènie]]. The statue of the young smiling boy was very popular, and Carpeaux created a number of reproductions and variations in marble and bronze. There is a copy, for instance, in the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the [[National Gallery of Art]] in [[Washington D.C.]] |
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Also in 1980 he married Caroline Crowther, They had two children, Sarah and Cathleen. Sarah was actually born before their marriage. Caroline is the daughter of British comedian [[Leslie Crowther]], who died in [[1996]]. |
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Some years later, he carved the Girl with a Shell, a very similar study. |
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[[Image:Philip Lynott Dublin Statue.jpg|thumb|left|The statue in Dublin]] |
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Carpeaux sought real life subjects in the streets and broke with the classical tradition. The Neapolitan Fisherboy's body is carved in intimate detail and shows an intricately balanced pose. Carpeaux claimed that he based the Neapolitan Fisherboy on a boy he had seen during a trip to [[Naples]]. |
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In 1983 Thin Lizzy disbanded, and later that year Lynott recorded a rock'n'roll medley single, "We Are The Boys (Who Make All The Noise)" with [[Roy Wood]], [[Chas Hodges]] and [[John Coghlan (drummer)|John Coghlan]], and collaborated with former bandmate blues/rock guitarist [[Gary Moore]] on "Out in the Fields" (a No. 5 UK hit in 1985, his highest-charting single ever) and "Parisienne Walkways" (a UK no. 8 hit). His last single, "Nineteen", released a few weeks before his death, was produced by [[Paul Hardcastle]]. It bore no relation to the producer's [[19 (song)|chart-topping single of the same title]] some months earlier. |
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Lynott's last years were dogged by [[drug abuse|drug]] and alcohol dependency, and on the night of [[December 25]], 1985, he was rushed to hospital suffering from a [[heroin]] [[overdose]]. He died of [[heart failure]] and [[pneumonia]] on [[January 4]], [[1986]] at the age of 36. According to album notes, recording of Thin Lizzy's debut album began on [[January 4]], [[1971]], exactly fifteen years before his death. |
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A life-size bronze [[statue]] of Phil Lynott was unveiled on Harry Street, off [[Grafton Street, Dublin]] in 2005. The ceremony was attended by former band members [[Gary Moore]], [[Brian Robertson]], [[Brian Downey]] and [[Scott Gorham]], and by Lynott's mother. The attending Thin Lizzy members paid tribute with a live performance. His grave in [[St. Fintan's Cemetery, Sutton|St. Fintan's cemetery]] in [[Sutton, Dublin|Sutton]] is regularly visited by family, friends and fans. |
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In November 2005, American actor [[Gary Dourdan]] revealed in a radio interview that he has carried out preliminary work with a view to playing Phil Lynott in a film biography. |
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In 2006 a Thin Lizzy tribute band played at the [[Nerve Centre]],'''Derry''' in memory of Phil Lynott. |
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During the gig Phil Lynotts mum '''Philomena Lynott''' came onto the stage and sang the vocals for the single [[Dancin In The Moonlight]] in memory of her son. |
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In 2006 Lynott's mother allowed [[Micky Waters]], bass guitarist of [[The Answer (band)|The Answer]] to be the first to play her son's bass since his death. The bass was also used in the band's music video for the single [[Keep Believin']] |
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'The Rocker: A Portrait of Phil Lynott' was released on DVD in the UK April 2007 |
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==Death== |
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'''Phil Lynott''' died on the '''January 4, 1986''' from a serious Heroin Addiction. |
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The band then split up as a result of this. |
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==Solo discography== |
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===Albums=== |
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*''[[Solo in Soho]]'' (1980) |
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*''[[The Philip Lynott Album]]'' (1982) |
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==References== |
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* {{cite book |last=Hale |first=Mark |title=Headbangers |year=1993 |publisher=Popular Culture, Ink |location=[[Ann Arbor, Michigan|Ann Arbor]], [[Michigan]] |edition=First edition, second printing |isbn=1-56075-029-4 |chapter=1694 Philip Lynott |pages=201}} |
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==See also == |
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* [[List of people on stamps of Ireland]] |
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* [[List of drug-related deaths]] |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.roisindubh.info/ The Roisin Dubh Trust - Official Website] |
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*[http://www.vibeforphilo.com/ The Official Vibe For Philo - Rock event honouring Phil Lynott every Jan. 4th] |
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*[http://www.thinlizzyfan.com/ ThinLizzyFan] |
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*[http://www.trcjt.ca/ab950/lizzy/history.html An Illustrated History of Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy] |
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*[http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7566185/lizzys_lynott_lives_on Article about Phil Lynott statue and 'My Boy' movie] |
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*[http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=rs_display_res&critere=jean+baptiste+carpeaux&operator=AND&nbToDisplay=5&langue=fr A page on the official Louvre site giving access to some of Carpeaux's works (French language only)] |
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{{ThinLizzy}} |
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*[http://www.insecula.com/contact/A005511_oeuvre_1.html A page from insecula.com listing more views of Carpeaux's works (also in French;] it may be necessary to close an advertising window to view this page) |
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*[http://www.studiolo.org/MMA-Ugolino/Ugolino.htm A page analysing Carpeaux's ''Ugolino'', with numerous illustrations] |
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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (May 11, 1827, Valenciennes –October 12, 1875, Courbevoie) was a French sculptor and painter. His early studies were under François Rude. Carpeaux won the Prix de Rome in 1854, and moving to Rome to find inspiration, he there studied the works of Michelangelo, Donatello and Verrocchio. Staying in Rome from 1854 to 1861, he obtained a taste for movement and spontaneity, which he joined with the great principles of baroque art. In 1861 he made a bust of Princess Mathilde, and this later brought him several commissions from Napoleon III. He worked at the pavilion of Flora, and the Opéra Garnier. His group La Danse (the Dance, 1869), situated on the right side of the façade, was criticised as an offence to common decency.
He never managed to finish his last work, the famous Fountain of the Four Parts of the Earth, on the Place Camille Jullian. He did finish the terrestrial globe, supported by the four figures of Asia, Europe, America and Africa, and it was Emmanuel Frémiet who completed the work by adding the eight leaping horses, the tortoises and the dolphins of the basin.
Sculptures by Carpeaux
- Ugolin et ses fils - Ugolino and his Sons (1861, in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art)[[1]] with versions in other museums including the Musée d'Orsay
- The Dance (commissioned for the Opera Garnier)
- Jeune pêcheur à la coquille - Neapolitan Fisherboy - in the Louvre, Paris [[2]]
- Girl with Shell
- Antoine Watteau monument, Valenciennes
Neapolitan Fisherboy
Carpeaux submitted a plaster version of Pêcheur napolitain à la coquille, the Neapolitan Fisherboy, to the French Academy while a student in Rome. He carved the marble version several years later, showing it in the Salon exhibition of 1863. It was purchased for Napoleon III's empress, Eugènie. The statue of the young smiling boy was very popular, and Carpeaux created a number of reproductions and variations in marble and bronze. There is a copy, for instance, in the Samuel H. Kress Collection in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
Some years later, he carved the Girl with a Shell, a very similar study.
Carpeaux sought real life subjects in the streets and broke with the classical tradition. The Neapolitan Fisherboy's body is carved in intimate detail and shows an intricately balanced pose. Carpeaux claimed that he based the Neapolitan Fisherboy on a boy he had seen during a trip to Naples.
External links
- A page on the official Louvre site giving access to some of Carpeaux's works (French language only)
- A page from insecula.com listing more views of Carpeaux's works (also in French; it may be necessary to close an advertising window to view this page)
- A page analysing Carpeaux's Ugolino, with numerous illustrations