There aren’t many people better placed to write the 'What It’s Like To Be In A Band With A Crazy Frontman' handbook than former Thin Lizzy and Motörhead guitarist Brian Robertson. The Scottish six-stringer wasn’t always just an innocent bystander, either. He’d already had a taste for carnage as an integral member in Thin Lizzy during the Irish rockers’ most successful years, which you imagine put him in good stead when Lemmy came knocking in 1982. He told Classic Rock how it came about.
“Joining Motörhead was a weird one. Lemmy’s manager, Doug Smith, phoned me up, and then he sent this girl in stockings and suspenders round to my place in Fulham with a bottle of whisky. Needless to say the deal was struck. She gave me all the Motörhead albums, but I didn’t listen to them because it’s not my sort of music.”
