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Japan only cd first press with OBI-strip and lyric insert Best known for his stints with hard rock outfits Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake, guitarist John Sykes was born July 29, 1959 in Reading, England. He began playing music at 14, and joined the group Streetfighter in 1980; a stint with Badlands followed before Sykes joined the Tygers of Pan Tang, issuing the LP Spellbound in 1981. After completing work on the album Crazy Nights, he left the Tygers to join Thin Lizzy in time for the group's final studio LP, 1983's Thunder and Lightning; the following year, Sykes joined Whitesnake, making his debut with the album Slide It In. Their 1987 self-titled LP was the band's commercial breakthrough, with Sykes teaming with frontman David Coverdale to author the hit ‘Is This Love’; however, soon after finishing the record Coverdale dismissed the rest of the band, and Sykes returned to England to form his own group, Blue Murder, with drummer Carmine Appice and bassist Tony Franklin. Blue Murder released three albums between 1989 and 1994 before dissolving; after that Sykes have been touring with the reunited Thin Lizzy and issued solo albums. This album features the John Sykes tracks ‘Please Don’t Leave Me’ that he recorded with Thin Lizzy in 3 different versions together with the single tracks he recorded with Tygers Of Pan Tang. This is was originally only released in Japan in 1992 then re-released in 1999 and then a third release in paper cover come out in Japan in 2008. This is however the first and very rare pressing from 1992 Track listing: 1. Please Don't Leave Me 2. Don't Take Nothing 3. Bad Times 4. All or Nothing 5. Don't Give a Damn 6. Please Don't Leave Me 7. Slave to Freedom-live 8. Raised on Rock-live 9. Paradise Drive 10. Love Potion No. 9 11. Please Don't Leave Me-instrumental