“Lemmy is God” is a short prayer recited for decades that the hosts of metal. It is a way to define the musical genre to which his fans remain loyal, above any other. This cult could be likened to a church, only Lemmy Kilmister hated churches and had no intention of pleasing no one: he came to enjoy the pleasures of the earth. (See gallery: Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead, the face of the excesses of heavy metal)
Therefore, this rock icon, wild-looking, dark, wearing Nazi clothing who collected and clung to a huge low Rickenbacker as if it were a medieval mandoble, mysticism surrounds one of legends, such as that he slept with over 2,000 women, or at least until a couple of years ago, he took daily a bottle of whiskey Jack Daniel’s.
On the night of Monday, the world heard the news of the death of Lemmy Kilmister, the leader of Motörhead band, their 70, because of a cancer. It also emerged that just two days earlier had been diagnosed with the disease, so, apparently, the artist had been living with her unknowingly or unintentionally know. Against all signals, Lemmy just kept singing
In recent months, “he looked terribly emaciated, exhausted all his energy on stage and then was very tired, it’s amazing even come to act,” admitted Mikkey Dee, drummer After the departure of Kilmister know.
As soon as the news spread in social networks, hard rock figures demonstrated to mark the importance of Lemmy. For example, Ozzy Osbourne recognized him as one of his best friends: “He will be sorely missed, he was a warrior and a legend, I’ll see you on the other side.” Alice Cooper said: “He was innovative, honest with his art and continually relevant and did not care to be (…), I was always creating and redefining the hard rock and the role of the bass in it. Offstage, he was a gem. I can not believe that someone would not worship Lemmy “
The native musician North Wales carved out a career that can not fit into any conventional framework of the entertainment industry: no impose any discourse stopped marketing or tried to hide it was not a ‘pretty boy’ for the cameras. Meanwhile, his dynamite-laden phrases defined their unique personality.
History in episodes
Although the trio Motörhead emerged in London in the second half of the 70s, that is, almost 10 after the birth of Black Sabbath, a pioneer of metal, the band Kilmister is credited with a strong share creation of the genre (laid foundations for the thrash metal), being part of a movement called NWOBHM (New Wave of brittish heavy metal), with bands like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest.
However, the musical story of Ian Fraser Kilmister begins earlier, in the 60s, to witness the arrival of rock and roll like “music from outer space,” he said.
The musician remembered clearly, for example, seeing the Beatles in one of his first performances, when they were playing at the Cavern Club, before all the explosion.
In the second half of the 60s, he could integrate several Kilmister bands in the early psychedelic rock, first as a guitarist in The Rainmakers and The Rockin ‘Vickers, the latter signed with CBS. So it was not even called Lemmy Kilmister, but Ian Willis (surname of his stepfather). He also worked as a roadie (production assistant concerts) on British tours of Jimi Hendrix.
The start of the 70s would bring another episode, brighter, which lasted four years from 1971 to 1975 as part of the London band Hawkwind, who had nothing to do with rock hard, but with the so-called space rock, and with which he recorded albums such as Space Ritual. A simple titled Silver Machine, which reached number three in the listings are particularly stressed. At that debuted as a singer.
But, as recognized in interview with Michael Hann of The Guardian, last August -this remember that time, Kilmister he tabled a bottle of vodka for himself and one of the drink whiskey to the reporter, the energies flowing in his mind were very different from the rest of the group because it took “the wrong kind of drug” Kilmister was with the speed, a stimulating amphetamine, while the others were with hallucinogens.
So Kilmister was arrested for drug possession, which detonated his departure from the band. But at that time had written a song for Hawkwind and Motörhead was called that became the name of your new group.
The totem of rock
Since 1975, Kilmister started rolling with different musicians around his project, which he recorded 22 studio albums. But most striking is his career alive, because, as I said the bear, “a band has to be proven on stage, otherwise no band.”
In that It decant, became major influence on many artists of the burgeoning metalera wave of the 80s and, from there, the rock of the 90s, but also transversely many artists like Metallica and the Ramones, with whom he shared scene in historical presentations.
Everyone saw the rock apostolate Kilmister very large commitment to gender honesty, an authenticity that weighed everything.
His first encounter with Metallica, for example, occurs as the fanatics boys to die from Lemmy, who in 1981 seek to steal a few minutes and end up getting a lesson. Yesterday, the quartet paid tribute with a photo on its official Facebook entitled “Our hero” and then the message: “One of the main reasons why this band exists”
. Kilmister was also the kind of guy who is paying for all his friends, but even more so if the inconvenience involved could a society that considered retrograde. In 1994, he starred in the low budget film John Wayne Bobbitt Uncut, who led the porn star Ron Jeremy, about the history of the man who slit his Lorena Bobbitt member. While the cameras were not for him, the musician portrayed a beggar who is accidentally piece Bobbitt threw out the window of his car.
However, they were not few appearances film, although almost all low-budget acted as priest in The Curse of El Charro, as president in Return to Nuke ‘Em High, and was editing a project in 2016 entitled Gutterdammerung, which shares scene with Iggy Pop, Grace Jones, Tom Araya, the Eagles of Death Metal and Henry Rollins.
And the most remarkable in his role as rock star, who was best known play, in the metal film fans Airheads, in which Steve Buscemi explained to the world that “Lemmy is God.”
Mikkey Dee and the lead means that there will be more music or presentations Motörhead in the future, because without Kilmister would be impossible, “Motörhead’s over, of course. Lemmy was Motorhead, but the band will live in the memory of many people (…). There will be no more touring and more records. But the brand survives and Lemmy lives in everyone’s heart, “he said in an interview with the Swedish newspaper Expressen ‘
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