Robertsin was innate on February 12 1956 in Clarkstown, Glasgow. He learnt authoritative piano for eight years prior to switch to the guitar. He played around gigs around his local metropolitan area by having elastic rather Dream Police, world health organization down a road evolved into the Average White Band.

Career
Inside June 1974, Thin Lizzy were auditioning for the fresh guitar player & a try-out for Robertson was intended. However the stripling, Robertsin was taken on - & by owning Scott Gorham on a other lead guitar, formulated the twin-guitar harmony that processed Thin Lizzy one of the virtually all influential "guitar bands" in the music industry. When you took his instance in a band Thin Lizzy scaled the heights of profits releasing albums like Jailbreak, Johnny the Fox, Bad Reputation and the brilliant Live and Dangerous. Robertson was fired from either a band twice, he eventually left a band inside 1978.

As punishment his dismissal, Robertson joined Untamed Horses along using an additional large title ishmael, ex-Rainbow bassist Jimmy Bain. Achieving just unfair profits in a UK, the band split higher when releasing ii albums, 1980's the Foremost Album & 1981's Stand Your systems Ground.

Robertsin appeared on stage for the nighttime in the period of Thin Lizzy's final tour within 1983, alongside most of their previous guitar player.

When this brief appearance by having Thin Lizzy he joined Motörhead on their US tour, replacing "Fast" Eddie Clarke. He appeared by having a b& on a King Biscuit Flower Hour and recorded the Another Perfect Day album with the two. In that instance he was near flushed by the Hell's Angels bike meet, as he wore a pink tutu and ballet shoes to the gig. Refusing to play a classic counts a band replaced him sustaining Phil Campbell and Wurzel.

Robertson processed a favorite guest appearance sustaining the band Ash at the Oxegen music festival around Ireland, 2004, swimming guitar on the song A Boys come Back around Town.

Infrequently seen on the music scene, he remains something of the mystery in the guitar globe, because of his odd style of dress, & his brilliant guitar function.

Discography
Thin Lizzy
Night Life (1974) Fighting (1975) Jailbreak (1976) Johnny the Fox (1976) Bad Reputation (1977) Live and Dangerous (1978)

Motörhead
Another Perfect Day (1983) I Got Mine (1983)