Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister, lead singer and bassist of the famous British heavy metal band Motörhead, is deceased at the age of 70.
His microphone was he always so high that he looked down into the audience as he sang, but straight up. Which pose plus his enormous sideburns and two warts on his left cheek made by Lemmy is one of the most recognizable rock musicians of all time. Almost naturally he published an action doll on the market. When Lemmy found that the doll modeled after him had no genitals, he noted: ,, Well, that will have little action “
Yes, with Lemmy, singer and bassist of the rock band Motörhead, you could. laugh. Tuesday he died just two days after he had been told he had cancer. And again three days before that he had become 70. He took that age, may be considered an achievement, because when it came to alcohol and drugs, Lemmy led a rather exuberant life. Virtually his entire adult life he used amphetamines. And his 30th two years ago, he worked daily bottle of Jack Daniels away. That he was going to do it to slow in 2013, was due to his poor health: he suffered from diabetes and had heart problems
His reputation of a wild rock. n-roll beast, but stupid he was not at all
This preference for amphetamine, known as speed, could be heard in the music of Motörhead which besides loudly above was fast. Usually the group was classified as heavy metal, but Lemmy himself preferred to speak of just rock and roll. As a teenager, was as Ian Fraser Kilmister born Englishman a dedicated fan of the American rocker Little Richard. Later he fell for homegrown music beat: at sixteen, he saw the Beatles in their early days performing at The Cavern Club in Liverpool. Playing the guitar he taught himself on the basis of their debut album.
LSD
His own career started in groups such as The Rainmakers and The Motown Sect. In 1967 he moved from the English countryside to London, where he shared a room with Noel Redding, bassist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience. In the short time that Lemmy was a roadie for Hendrix, he was introduced to LSD, he became an enthusiastic user. These psychedelic drug was also a major inspiration for the space rock of Hawkwind, the group in 1972 where he was a member of.
Hawkwind he stepped out of the guitar on the bass. His background as a rhythm guitarist would always be reflected in his bass playing: fairly unusual Lemmy played his instrument many chords. An arrest for drug possession ended after three years of his membership of Hawkwind. A song he had written for the group, the name of his new, own group. Motörhead
Controversial collection
Although the trio experienced its heyday in the early eighties, when the single Ace of spades and the live album No sleep ’til Hammersmith big sales successes, Motörhead kept the hassle out of four decades. Lemmy was in all those years, the only permanent member. His reputation was that of a wild rock and roll beast, but he was anything but stupid. He was very interested in politics and history.
Controversial was his collection of Nazi paraphernalia. Weapons, medals and uniforms; he had them all. His love for such things was merely historical and aesthetic in nature, he assured. A journalist who attacked him on it, he snapped: ,, My black friend has no problem with it, why do you “
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