NAUGHTY BOYS

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.”