Editing Skid Row (Irish band) (section)

===Legacy===

Skid Row had little commercial success outside Ireland and the UK, although ''Skid'' reached No.30 on the [[UK Albums Chart]].<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book| first= David| last= Roberts| year= 2006| title= British Hit Singles & Albums| edition= 19th| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London| isbn= 1-904994-10-5| page= 505}}</ref> More of their recorded material was released between 1990 and 2006.

Phil Lynott died of [[septicaemia]] in January 1986, John Brady was killed in a car accident on 15 February 1993, and Gary Moore died from a heart attack in February 2011. Noel Bridgeman went on to perform studio work with [[Clannad (musical group)|Clannad]], [[The Waterboys]] and [[Altan (band)|Altan]] and was part of Irish folk singer [[Mary Black]]'s band in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He died in March 2021.  

Shiels still occasionally performs as 'Brush Shiels' Skid Row', as recently as February 2005.

Brush Shiels returned to his Skid Row legacy once more releasing ''Mad Dog Woman'' (originally titled ''Skid Row Revisited'') – an album of new material and re-recordings of Skid Row songs – through his website in June 2009. He also thanked the other Skid Row "for the generosity of spirit in acknowledging the contribution of the original Skid Row" by using the name.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.myspace.com/brushshielsmusic|title=Brush Shiels on MySpace Music|website=Myspace.com}}</ref> In January 2012 Shiels issued a public request to Jon Bon Jovi via [[YouTube]] to contact him about the use of the name 'Skid Row'. This was connected to Shiels having recently recovered the rights to his own songs recorded with the original Skid Row.<ref name="jovi" />

It was reported that in 1987, [[Jon Bon Jovi]] asked Gary Moore to sell the name 'Skid Row' to [[Skid Row (American band)|the American heavy metal band]] for $35,000 (Bon Jovi part-owns the music publishing rights of this band). Lead singer [[Sebastian Bach]] recalled,
{{quote|When (Skid Row) got signed to Atlantic, Gary Moore heard about it and said we could have the name for $35,000 U.S. dollars. "We have to pay Gary Moore 35 grand to use the name," and so we, as a band, did buy the name from Gary Moore. We were all glad to do it because it is a great name for a band. I remember saying, "Wow, that's a lot of $, but we gotta do it!"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/BlabberMouth.Net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=54571|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110213121538/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/BlabberMouth.Net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=54571|url-status=dead|title=Sebastian Bach on the BlabberMouth.Net website|archivedate=13 February 2011}}</ref>}}
However, Shiels maintains that Moore simply referred the band to Shiels to discuss the rights to the name, but that it was never followed up.<ref name="jovi">Did Bon Jovi give Skid Row a 'Bad Name'? – ''Examiner'' (17 January 2012)</ref>

They were managed in the 1970s by [[Oliver Byrne (football chairman)|Oliver Byrne]].