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In 2012, The Boys Are Back Town was used to introduce Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan at the Republican National Convention. This infuriated Gorham, who insisted that Lynott would have hated the right-wing policies of Ryan and the Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney. “There’s no way this song should have been used to promote some fucked up political shit,” Gorham spat. “Mind you, if Donald Trump ever used it, then I think I’d slit my wrists!

“It was different when US troops returned home from Afghanistan in 2014. The Boys In Back In Town was played as their anthem when they landed. And that was something of which we approved.”

It may album, and we’d selected those we felt were the ten best ones,” explains guitarist Scott Gorham. “Then our co-manager Chris O’Donnell came down to listen to the songs, and we played him all fifteen. He picked up on something we’d titled , but we had already rejected it as not good enough for the album. He liked it, and told us that we should include it. We accepted his judgement, but there was still work to be done, because the lyrics were anti-war, which wasn’t really right for us, and musically it wasn’t there. However, we sorted it all out, and turned into .”