Eric Bell is a musician born in Belfast in 1947. He was the lead guitarist for Thin Lizzy. He played on the band's first three albums "Thin Lizzy", "Shades of a Blue Orphanage" and "Vagabonds of the Western World" Although Thin Lizzy were gaining in popularity the pressures of recording, touring and the excesses of the rock- star lifestyle began to take it's toll and he left the band after a New Year's eve concert in 1973.

See also

• Eric Temple Bell, mathematician.
• Eric Norman Frankland Bell, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross.