List of the Day: 3 of Rock’s Most Frequently Mispronounced Names

20 Aug 2026 Leave a comment

by Ed Cyphers in List of the Day Tags: , ,

Aspiring music nerds: Try using the little-known, correct pronunciations of these rockers. You’ll either sound like the smartest or the dumbest person in the room.

Randy Bachman

…of The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive doesn’t pronounce his name BOCK-min, but BACK-min, using the Canadian rather than the more common German pronunciation of the name.

Thin Lizzy

…is named after a character from a British children’s comic magazine–a robot named Tin Lizzy.

The band changed the spelling to “Thin” to poke fun at the local Dublin accent, in which “thin” would be rendered as “tin”.

So the band’s name is actually, officially, pronounced “Tin Lizzy”.

Ray Davies

…aka the Godfather of Britpop, pronounces his last name DA-viss, rather than DA-veez. Kinky.

Songs You May Have Missed #320

06 Feb 2013 Leave a comment

by Ed Cyphers in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: ,

thin lizzy

Thin Lizzy: “Still in Love With You” (1974)

Thin Lizzy didn’t chart an album or single in America until 1976, when Jailbreak and “The Boys are Back in Town” broke through. To many in the U.S. they are perceived as a one-hit wonder with a cool twin lead guitar sound, rather than the great, versatile rock band they truly were.

Here they show that a wistful melody and sweet chord progression were also among their bag of rock tricks.

Thin Lizzy to Record First Album Without Phil Lynott

17 Sep 2012 Leave a comment

by Ed Cyphers in General Posts Tags:

(Reprinted from Rolling Stone)

Thin Lizzy are set to record their first album in nearly 30 years, and their  first without original frontman Phil Lynott, HotPress.com reports. Guitarist Scott Gorham said the group  will work with producer Kevin Shirley on the new album, and that recording will  likely start next month. “I’ll be going out to Los Angeles at the end of the  month to work on some songs with [guitarist] Damon [Johnson] and then I think we  will start recording in October in our producer Kevin Shirley’s studio,” Gorham  said.

“We are all excited about the new record but especially [vocalist] Ricky  [Warwick] and Damon, they just can’t wait to start recording!” said Gorham. “You  have got six guys there that are chomping at the bit that can’t wait to get this  thing going.”

The current Thin Lizzy lineup includes Gorham, Warwick and Johnson along with  founding member Brian Downey, longtime keyboardist Darren Wharton and bassist  Marco Mendoza. Lynott died in 1986 at age 36. Thin Lizzy’s last studio album, Thunder and Lightning, was released in 1983.