album title was pencilled in as Angel of Death. Once the title was established as Renegade, Fitzpatrick drew rough drafts of a cover featuring Lynott on a wanted poster reminiscent of the Wild West, which Lynott liked. However, Phonogram / Vertigo were unwilling to provide funding for an outside artist, and the final cover was photographed by Graham Hughes, a cousin of Roger Daltrey. One idea was to show the band superimposed on a dark mountain with a red sky in the background, but the final version showed an arm waving a deep red flag with a yellow five-pointed star on it. On release, Lynott moved quickly to counter any questions of communist sympathies. "It's not supposed to be a communist flag," he said, "although it looks like one... nothing to do with North Vietnam or anything." The red colour was inspired by Lynott seeing the colour of a box of Dunhill cigarettes belonging to co-producer Tsangarides, although Lynott claimed at the time they were his own. The back cover featured Hughes' portraits of four of the band members, with Wharton omitted. The record company claimed the layout of the back cover dictated that there was only room for four photos, which angered Wharton: "It was a horrible excuse and it hurt me a great deal," he said. Another suggestion was that the record company were unaware that Wharton was by this time a full member of the band. Lynott was keen at the time to quash any suggestion of the group breaking up. Reception Greg Prato of AllMusic claimed that Renegade is Thin Lizzy's worst album, with "blatant pop leanings and a production too similar to British heavy metal bands of the early '80s", blaming Snowy White's incompatibility with the group, Lynott's "flat vocals" and the band's drug problems. Prato named "The Pressure Will Blow", "Leave This Town" and "Hollywood (Down on Your Luck)" as the album's better songs. David Fricke in his review for Rolling Stone stated his disappointment for Lynott's performance as singer and songwriter on the album, writing that "only the rousing chorus of "Hollywood (Down on Your Luck)" and the poignant sense of loss in "It's Getting Dangerous" hint at the sensitive yet anthemic writing and hard-rock smarts that usually separate Thin Lizzy from the lunkheads". On the contrary, Canadian journalist Martin Popoff praised the album for its superb production and the professional state-of-the-art sound,