Motörhead were fucked by the music business from the start. Lemmy, guitarist Larry Wallis and drummer Lucas Fox entered Rockfield Studios in late 1975 to record their debut album with producer Dave Edmunds.
So far so good. But Edmunds quit mid-session and Fox bailed soon afterwards, their respective places taken by Fritz Fryer and maniac-in-waiting ‘Philthy Animal’ Taylor, the latter manfully overdubbing Fox’s drums on all but one track. Album finally in the bag, their original record company United Artists took one listen and refused to release it – only to cynically stick it out a few years later after Overkill and Bomber proved the band weren’t quite the dud the label thought.
