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“Given the state he was in I would have given him two years, tops. But Sharon literally rescued him”: Inside the booze-soaked 35-year friendship between Lemmy and Ozzy Osbourne

Ozzy Osbourne grimacing at the camera and Lemmy smoking a cigarette.

Ozzy Osbourne and late, great Motörhead frontman Lemmy were cut from the same booze-soaked cloth. The friendship between these two icons dated back to the late 70s, and there were plenty of booze-and-chemical-fuelled nights that followed. In 2010, Lemmy sat down with Metal Hammer to look back over three decades of mutual hellraising, songwriting and pissing up keyboard players’ legs.

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