A new animated video for Thin Lizzy’s classic Jailbreak has been launched

The Jailbreak video coincides with new mixes of Thin Lizzy’s 1976 albums Jailbreak and Johnny The Fox, and a Classic Rock cover story

A new animated video for Thin Lizzy‘s 1976 single Jailbreak has been launched. The vizualiser, which is based on Jim Fitzpatrick’s iconic cover art for the album of the same name, arrives as UME prepare to release new mixes of both the Jailbreak album and Johnny The Fox, released later the same year. 

In the new issue of Classic Rock, which looks back at Jailbreak and the band’s campaign to break North America, guitarist Scott Gorham, who’d joined the band in time to play on the preceding albums Nightlife and Fighting, looks back on the making of Jailbreak.

“Our first two albums were dismal failures,” says Gorham. “For the third, Jailbreak, we literally had everyone saying to us: ‘You’d better do it on this one or there’s the door.’ Record company, management, I even think what few fans we had at that point were saying it. So we doubled our efforts. We demoed and demoed and demoed and wrote and wrote.