Songs for While I'm Away (2020)

Title: Phil Lynott: Songs for While I'm Away
Original Title: Songs for While I'm Away
Release Date: 2020-10-23
Status: Released
Rating: 7.3/10 (from 3 votes)
Language: EN
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Cowtown Pictures, Eagle Rock Film Productions
A feature documentary on the life and music of Phil Lynott, telling 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 wild man. Told extensively through the words of Lynott himself and focusing on some of his iconic songs, the film gets to the heart of Philip, the father, the husband, the friend, the son, the rock icon, the poet and the dreamer.
Cast

Carl Shaaban
Phil Lynott

Huey Lewis
Self

James Hetfield
Self

Adam Clayton
Self

Eric Bell
Self

Phil Lynott
Self (archive footage)

Suzi Quatro
Self

Midge Ure
Self

Caroline Crowther
Self (as Caroline Taraskevics)

Sarah Lynott
Self