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Songs for While I'm Away

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 project
Features
Running time
112 mins
Director
Emer Reynolds
Producer
Alan Maher, John Wallace, Peter Worsley
Editor
Tony Cranstoun
Director of Photography
Kate McCullough
Composer
Ray Harman
Principal cast
Carl Shaaban
Assistant Editor
Jackie Jarvis

Genre

Music Black Dance

Categories

Documentary

Production Status

Post-production

Production Company

Ireland, UK co-production

A Cowtown Pictures (IE), Eagle Rock Productions (UK) production with support from Universal Music Globe Production, Screen Ireland

Eagle Rock Productions

c/o Eagle Rock Entertainment
Eagle House
22 Armoury Way
London
SW18 1EZ
+44 (0)20 8870 5670 / +44 (0)20 8875 8791 (ext. 510)

Cowtown Pictures

Alan Maher

Sales Company

Eagle Rock Entertainment

22 Armoury Way
London
SW18 1EZ

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