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Thin Lizzy’s debut album is their latest to be remixed and expanded. The self-titled 1971 album will be reissued in multiple formats, including a 3CD/Blu-ray box set and both 4LP and 2LP editions – featuring remixes, single-only and EP material, rare and unissued radio sessions and 11 unreleased outtakes. Each version will be released July 10.

Coming for the 55th anniversary of the Irish band’s first album, the Thin Lizzy box follows similarly expansive sets featuring remixed and rarities-packed versions of the albums Nightlife and Fighting (released last year in the 7CD collection 74-75) as well as Jailbreak and Johnny the Fox (chronicled in the 5CD/Blu-ray anthology 1976 back in 2024). As with those sets, engineer Richard Whittaker has remixed the full album as well as subsequent EP New Day from the original tapes; the new album mix will be available in stereo on the first CD of the box set and alongside the original mix on the color 2LP vinyl, while the Blu-ray offers not only stereo, 5.1 surround and Atmos mixes, but a headphone-friendly binaural version as well. Two BBC sessions will be included – one for Sounds of the Seventies and a never-before-released 1971 session for John Peel – and the studio outtakes include the debut of the track “Beggar’s Song.” (New mixes of this tune will also be on the Blu-ray). Rounding out the 10″ x 10″ CD package is a 40-page hardcover book featuring liner notes by Mark Blake of MOJO. Of additional note for collectors: the double vinyl, offering original and new mixes of the album, also comes in two color variants: a standard green packaged in a replica of the album’s original U.S. sleeve, and a D2C-exclusive blue version that retains the original U.K. artwork also seen on the box set.

Thin Lizzy finds the group in very different form to what mainstream listeners most commonly know. At the time, the group was a power trio of singer/bassist Phil Lynott and drummer Brian Downey, known for the Irish band Orphanage, and guitarist Eric Bell of Them. (His bandmate, organist Eric Wrixton, performed on the group’s debut single “The Farmer” – also included in this set – but left before its release.) Working with producers Scott English (yes, the co-writer of “Brandy,” re-recorded by Barry Manilow as “Mandy”) and Nick Tauber, the group’s Celtic and folk rock-indebted debut does little to hint at the eventual twin-guitar powerhouse Thin Lizzy would be known the world over by the end of the decade. But the chemistry of the group (particularly the star power of the late, great Phil Lynott) is hard to deny, and fans look to be well-served by this new collection.

The deluxe Thin Lizzy can be pre-ordered at the links below with a release date of July 10. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Thin Lizzy (55th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (Mercury/UMC, 2026)

3CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP (green): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store (blue)

CD 1: Original album remastered (1-10, also LP 1 of box set) and remixed in stereo by Richard Whittaker (11-20, also LP 2 of color double vinyl set)

1. The Friendly Ranger At Clontarf Castle
2. Honesty is No Excuse
3. Diddy Levine
4. Ray-Gun
5. Look What the Wind Blew In
6. Eire
7. Return of the Farmer’s Son
8. Clifton Grange Hotel
9. Saga of the Ageing Orphan
10. Remembering (Part One)

Original album released as Decca SKL 5082 (U.K.)/London Records PS 594 (U.S.), 1971

CD 2: Studio bonus material, remixes and sessions (Tracks 1-6 used as LP 2 Side 3 of box set; Tracks 7-10 used as LP 3 Side 2 of box set; Tracks 11-16 used as LP 4 of box set)

1. The Farmer
2. I Need You
3. Dublin
4. Remembering (Part Two)
5. Old Moon Madness
6. Things Ain’t Working Out Down on the Farm
7. Dublin (Richard Whittaker Stereo Remix) *
8. Remembering (Part Two) (Richard Whittaker Stereo Remix) *
9. Old Moon Madness (Richard Whittaker Stereo Remix) *
10. Things Ain’t Working Out Down on the Farm (Richard Whittaker Stereo Remix) *
11. Look What the Wind Just Blew In (Stuart Henry Sounds of the Seventies Session – 7/15/1971)
12. Return of the Farmer’s Son (Stuart Henry Sounds of the Seventies Session – 7/15/1971)
13. Dublin (John Peel Session – rec. 10/12/1971, broadcast 11/3/1971) *
14. Rise and Dear Demise of the Funky Nomadic Tribes (John Peel Session – rec. 10/12/1971, broadcast 11/3/1971) *
15. Clifton Grange Hotel (John Peel Session – rec. 10/12/1971, broadcast 11/3/1971) *
16. Ray-Gun (John Peel Session – rec. 10/12/1971, broadcast 11/3/1971) *

Tracks 1-2 released as Parlophone Irish single DIP.513, 1970
Tracks 3-6 released as NewDay EP- Decca F 13208 (U.K.), 1971
Tracks 11-12 released on Thin Lizzy At The BBC – Mercury 2782155 (U.K.), 2011

CD 3: Studio outtakes (Tracks 1-6 used as LP 2 Side 2 of box set, Tracks 7-11 used as LP 3 Side 1 of box set) *

1. Eire (Instrumental – Take 1 Outtake)
2. Beggar’s Song
3. Clifton Grange Hotel (Instrumental)
4. Honesty is No Excuse (Extended)
5. Honesty is No Excuse (Instrumental Outtake)
6. Ray-Gun (Instrumental Take 2 Outtake)
7. Reminiscing (Take 1 Outtake)
8. Eire (Outtake)
9. Ray-Gun (Alt Vocal)
10. Clifton Grange Hotel (Extended)
11. Things Ain’t Working Out Down on the Farm (Alt Vocal)

Blu-ray Audio

Thin Lizzy, New Day EP and “Beggar’s Song”

• Atmos mix (standard and instrumental)
• 5.1 surround mix (standard and instrumental)
• Stereo mix (standard and instrumental)
• Binaural (headphones-only) mix (standard and instrumental)