![]() ![]() Known simply as “Lemmy” to most, he was as famous for his mustache, mutton chops and the mole on his face as he was for his music.īut he was deeply respected and revered as a rock master and innovator, from his time with the seminal psychedelic band Hawkwind in the early 1970s to his four decades in Motorhead, best known for their 1980 anthem “Ace of Spades.” He was 70.Īgent Andrew Goodfriend tells the Associated Press that Kilmister died on Monday in Los Angeles after a brief battle with aggressive cancer. It will be so loud that if we move in next door to you, your lawn will die.LOS ANGELES: Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister, the Motorhead frontman whose outsized persona made him a hero for generations of hard-rockers and metal-heads, has died. Here’s how Lemmy himself was quoted describing the band’s music: “Loud, fast, city, raucous, arrogant, paranoid, speed-freak rock-and-roll. Motörhead’s most recognizable hit is probably Ace of Spades, recorded in 1980, in which Lemmy sings, “Baby, I don’t want to live forever.” But the band will live on in the memories of many.” “Motörhead is over, of course,” the band’s drummer Mickey Dee was quoted saying. They had a tour booked for 2016 that had to be cancelled. ![]() Then he formed Motörhead in 1975 and went on to record at least 22 studio albums with the group. Lemmy sang and played bass with the British space rock band, Hawkwind for a time in the early 1970s. I’d never played one before and it was great. I was getting away with murder, you know? Just turn it up and put a lot of fuzz tone on it and move your fingers,” Lemmy said. Lemmy told the BBC years later that he’d started off on the wrong instrument. And he got his start playing with a 1960s band called The Rockin Vickers. He worked as a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Lemmy saw the Beatles play in their early days. In 1945, he was born Ian Fraser Kilmister in the English city of Stoke-on-Trent. ![]() Lemmy had a reputation for doing plenty of drinking and drugs over the years, which will make it a surprise to some that he lived to be 70. He just always wanted to be out there ,” Oliver said. It always amazed me, like he just had no desire to relax. When Motörhead finished its latest tour, Oliver says Lemmy would go right back on the road with The Head Cat, a rockabilly band. “The love of his life was music,” he said. Lemmy told him that he would have been bored doing anything else for a living. Lemmy’s look didn’t change a whole lot since he formed the band Motörhead, 40 years ago. “And it was entirely a hundred percent real,” Oliver told BBC radio. He sort had everything you could possibly want in a rock star.” “Every living rock star looked up to him in some way or another, whether it was for the looks or the sound or the attitude. “He was the rock star that everyone else in that business tries to be,” said Greg Oliver, who spent three years with Lemmy making a documentary about his life. There’s one school of heavy metal that’s all about glam, classically inspired melodies, and music school chops. “I was right down the front, but it took me several days before I could fully hear properly again.” ![]() “They were certainly loud,” Whittingdale told the BBC. Whittingdale said he attended the show that was later released as the live album, “No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith.” The British culture secretary, John Whittingdale, revealed himself as a longtime Motörhead fan. ![]()
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