Phil Lynott's son takes in the reformed Thin Lizzy at Slane Castle

The son of Irish rock legend Phil Lynott came out to see the current version of his dad's old band, Thin Lizzy, perform at a festival at Ireland's Slane Castle over the weekend.

If you didn't even know Lynott had a son, join the crowd. Macdaragh Lambe, a Galway sculptor, didn't find out until he was 35 that he was the offspring of rock royalty. He was born in Dublin in 1968 as a result of a relationship between his mother and the then-struggling Lynott, who wouldn't taste success until four years later with Thin Lizzy's remake of the traditional Irish song "Whiskey in the Jar". The child was adopted by Oliver and Martina Lambe in Celbridge, Co Kildare, Ireland.

"It was marvellous seeing and hearing the crowd getting into my dad's songs," Lambe told the Irish Independent on Saturday. "He's not around, but his music was rocking Slane again. I was very humbled and moved to be witnessing it." (Vancouverites with a similar fondness for Lizzy can check the band out when it opens for Judas Priest in October.)

Lynott, who passed away in January of 1986, also had two daughters, Sarah (born in 1978) and Cathleen (1980). Here's the cute (albeit cheesy) promotional video for "Sarah", the 1979 Thin Lizzy ballad that Lynott wrote--along with Gary Moore--for his first girl. I like how Scott Gorham saunters out at the end all lovey-dovey. Phil didn't see that comin'.

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