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Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer
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Dave Everley

"Yelling, fighting, drugs, alcohol… everything always went on. At the very end, he took me to his house and gave me a sword." Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister, by those who knew him best

Lemmy at the Hammersmith 1982.

Ian Fraser Kilmister didn’t just live rock’n’roll, he was rock’n’roll. For 40 years, this roaring warlord led Motörhead on a crusade to show every other band that had ever existed up for the makeweights they were.

During that time, no bottle of Jack Daniel’s was left undrunk, no cigarette left unsmoked, no line of speed unsorted, no eardrum unbattered. It wasn’t so much a badge of honour as instinct. He was Lemmy. That is what he did.

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