On the second night of their 2025 tour, Guns N’ Roses played a live debut: a cover of a late-era Thin Lizzy song. With bassist Duff McKagan handling lead vocals, the band played “Thunder and Lightning,” the title track from Thin Lizzy’s 1983 final record. It was the band’s first time playing the song live. It was also McKagan’s only lead vocal performance of the evening. He dedicated it to his wife, Susan, who was celebrating a birthday that night.
The track, which is one of Thin Lizzy’s harder rocking songs, verging on metal, is performed pretty faithful by GNR, one of 28 songs performed that night. Other covers the band performed that night include their hit versions of Wings’ “Live and Let Die” and Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”—along with, more surprisingly, Jimmy Webb’s “Wichita Lineman,” which, believe it or not, they have played live for several years at this point.
The show took place at the K-Arena Yokohama in Yokohama, Japan. The band’s tour wraps up late July in Germany.
