Thin lizzy fight or fall
Listen to it and tell me it's not bollocks." Robertson did not play on the finished version of the song and Hinkley is not credited on the album sleeve.
I couldn't understand why they'd pay this guy a fortune just for playing what he did. He later said, "I took enormous offence to. Robertson was against the idea, as he liked the song as it had originally been arranged, in a blues format with his own additions of piano and bottleneck guitar. Lynott and producer John Alcock decided to employ session musicians to add more commercial elements to some of the tracks and try to produce a hit single, so Tim Hinkley was brought in to add keyboard parts to "Running Back".
Initially, the song "Running Back" was chosen to be a single ahead of "The Boys Are Back in Town", the latter being seen as possibly too aggressive for some radio stations to play. It was a conscious decision to go out and take the thing as far as it can go." People like Hendrix and Duane Allman were perfectly aware of the position they were getting into. "When I wrote 'Warriors'…" frontman and songwriter Phil Lynott remarked in 1976, "the only way I could give any sense of heavy drug takers was by describing them as warriors that they actually go out and do it. Gorham also criticized Alcock's production, saying that he didn't particularly care for his guitar tone on the album. In particular, Robertson said he would have liked more freedom to improvise his lead guitar parts. Both stated that the tightness of the songs made the album feel rigid. However, guitarists Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson felt that the speed at which it was completed adversely affected its quality. The band worked diligently through February on the album. They selected John Alcock as their producer, for he had worked in the studio extensively. The band wrote songs and collected ideas in a studio in Buckinghamshire in late 1975, then convened at Ramport Studios in London in the new year.
After their previous two albums, Nightlife and Fighting, failed to generate sales, Thin Lizzy were given one last chance by their label, Vertigo Records.