Scott Gorham has reflected on how the late John Sykes helped saved Thin Lizzy for one final studio album – and brought a little heavy metal guitar thunder to Thunder and Lightning. The kid in question was John Sykes, who was making a name for himself in a new-look Tygers of Pan Tang. “So John Sykes comes down, and I couldn’t fault him in any way,” Gorham continues. “I really wanted to say, ‘See, there’s nobody out there, so we gotta walk away from this.’ But I couldn’t. Lizzy’s fastest, heaviest, and most unapologetic album, it signs off the band’s studio catalog with one hell of a bang.