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Merlin Alderslade

"Lemmy goes and sees his doctor, and the doctor is like, ‘Holy ****! If you’d waited another week, you’d have died!'" How Motörhead legend Lemmy Kilmister shrugged off his health issues for years

Lemmy live on stage at Glastonbury.

The health struggles of Motörhead legend Lemmy Kilmister through the final years of his eventful life - and the typically bullish way in which he dealt with them - have been warmly discussed by some of his closest peers and collaborators in a series of new interviews commemorating the tenth anniversary of his passing.

Speaking to Metal Hammer for their special celebratory new issue, Lemmy's former bandmates, colleagues and associates open up on his life, legacy and the man he was behind the scenes - and it seems that when his fast and furious lifestyle started to catch up with him, he refused to let it keep him down.

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