The Boys Are Back in Town

"The Boys Are Back in Town"
1991 Re-release UK 7-inch single
Single by Thin Lizzy
from the album Jailbreak
B-side"Emerald" or "Jailbreak"
ReleasedApril 1976
StudioRamport, London
GenreRock[1][2]
Length4:29 (album version)
3:11 (single version)
LabelVertigo (UK)
Mercury (US)
Songwriter(s)Phil Lynott
Producer(s)John Alcock
Thin Lizzy singles chronology
"Wild One"
(1975)
"The Boys Are Back in Town"
(1976)
"Jailbreak"
(1976)

"The Boys Are Back in Town" is a song by Irish hard rock band Thin Lizzy. The song was released in 1976 as the first single from their album Jailbreak. It is considered by Rolling Stone to be the band's best song, placing it at No. 272 on the 2021 edition of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.[3]

  1. ^ Paste Staff (3 June 2024). "The 300 Greatest Albums of All Time". Paste. Retrieved 4 June 2024. ...turning in three of the greatest rock tracks of the era: "The Boys Are Back in Town," "Jailbreak" and "Cowboy Song
  2. ^ Breithaupt, Don; Breithaupt, Jeff (17 July 2000). "Dazed and Confused: Rock". Night Moves - Pop Music in the Late 70s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-312-19821-3.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Rollingstonegreatest2021 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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