Lemmy Kilmister
Lemmy Kilmister
Ian Fraser Kilmister, known as Lemmy, was an English musician, singer and songwriter who founded and fronted the rock band Motörhead. His music was one of the foundations of the heavy metal genre. He was known for his appearance, his distinctive gravelly voice and distinctive bass playing style. Alongside his music career, he also had many minor roles in film and television...
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth24 December 1945
CityBurslem, England
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Randy [ Rhoads] had small hands. Boy, could he play guitar. He became an even better guitar player after he died.
long musician jazz
Music had been going on a long time before that. You have to remember that before rock n' roll there were a bunch of jazz musicians all doing heroin. That sh*t has been around a long time.
war people drug
People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it for you.
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It is a well-known mystery that guitar players suddenly get better once they are dead. Buddy Holly was the first. Stevie Ray Vaughan is known by a lot more people than had ever heard of him when he was alive.
song
When George [Harrison] died the guards at Buckingham Palace played a medley of George's songs during the changing of the guard; that sort of thing never happens.
song writing
They [The Beatles ] were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs before that.
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It was just a mercy f**k, as it was our 30th anniversary. They gave Grammy to us for a cover of somebody else's song. It would have a lot more meaning if it had been for one of our songs.
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My biological dad will always be an a**hole - he left a young girl on her own to bring up a child and she had her mother living with us as well.
writing thinking
We know what we are doing by now.We seem to make an album every 18 months or so and I think every band should do that. We're not writing "Sgt. Pepper" every time; we are writing straight ahead rock n' roll.
metallica grammy
We were nominated [for Grammy] once before for our album 1916. We were up against Metallica at the time and they had just sold a quarter of a zillion albums.
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One thing I am very glad of is that I went through the sixties. People who didn't really don't know what they missed. We pushed a certain consciousness, a way of life and it was exciting - no AIDS, people weren't dying so much from drug abuse and it was truly a time of freedom and change.
cutting past done
I have done interviews in the past, and they cut everything out except for the outrageous line, and then they take it out of context.
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Apparently people don't like the truth , but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, "Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong." I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you.
vision tunnel-vision
I guess when you're young you have tunnel vision.