Nightlife  by Thin Lizzy

The fourth studio album by Thin Lizzy slightly differs in its musical style from the three other albums that preceded it, as well as from the subsequent ones that followed. This is because Thin Lizzy adopted in 1974's Nightlife many elements of soft rock, while blues rock is almost ignored.

Two more changes occur in Nightlife. The first involves collaborating with producer Ron Nevison for the first time, and the second—and more significant—is that Thin Lizzy goes from being a trio to a quartet as American William Scott Gorham and Scot Brian Robertson are simultaneously hired on guitars. Of course, Gary Moore also participates with his guitar on Still In Love With You.

Irish artist James Fitzpatric designed the album cover, which depicts a panther looking from afar at the lights of some metropolis, seeming to lurk to enter at the right moment. James Fitzpatric wanted to make a reference in this way to the Black Panther movement in several American metropolises, which sought equal rights for black American citizens.