Who is Lemmy

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Lemmy Kilmister - Motorhead Vocalist, Bass Guitarist & Rock Legend!

Lemmy is the frontman, vocalist and bass guitarist for the legendary British Heavy Metal band, Motorhead.

Lemmy's given name is Ian Fraser Kilmister, and he was born in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, England in 1945.

Lemmy played in several bands before joining space rock legends Hawkwind in 1971, as a singer and bass player. Lemmy performed lead vocals on their biggest hit Silver Machine.

After being fired from Hawkwind in 1975, Lemmy formed a new band which eventually became Motorhead and the rest is history!

Motorhead have released 20 studio albums, along with numerous live and compilation albums, EPs and singles including the classic Ace of Spades.

Lemmy is famed for his distinctive gravelly vocals, legendary bass playing and his forthright personality and has made numerous cameo appearances on film and TV both as an actor and as himself and has even appeared in a feature length documentary film "Lemmy" released in 2010.

Love him, or hate him, there's no getting away from the fact that Lemmy Kilmister is an iconic frontman and nothing short of a legend to many Hard Rock and Heavy Metal fans...read on to find out more about Lemmy and take a Lemmy Quiz to see how much you know about the man himself!

* Book "Lemmy: In His Own Words" shown above available from Amazon.com
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Lemmy Quotes

"That was a great time, the summer of '71 - I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it!"

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Ian Fraser "Lemmy" Kilmister

Lemmy onstage with Motorhead in Chicago February 2011

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Lemmy Quotes

"I sound like a gorilla on Valium!"

* Photograph of Lemmy onstage with Motorhead in Chicago February 2011 used under a Creative Commons licence from egvvnd

20 Facts You May Not Know About Lemmy!

Lemmy Kilmister, vocalist, guitarist, actor and larger than life character!

  • 1Lemmy sings with his microphone angled upwards. He says he does it that way for "personal comfort, that's all. It's also one way of avoiding seeing the audience. In the days when we only had ten people and a dog, it was a way of avoiding seeing that we only had ten people and a dog"!
  • 2Lemmy was born on Christmas Eve in 1945.
  • 3Lemmy almost exclusively uses Rickenbacker bass guitars.
  • 4Lemmy appears as an unlockable character in the game Guitar Hero: Metallica released in 2009.
  • 5In 2007, an article in The Guardian newspaper described Lemmy as "...the nation's greatest living Englishman".
  • 6Lemmy played in lots of bands prior to forming Motorhead in 1975, including The Rainmakers, The Rockin' Vickers, Opal Butterfly, Sam Gopal, and Hawkwind.
  • 7Lemmy is reputed to have slept with well over 1,000 women...
  • 8Lemmy has mutton chop whiskers (sideburns connected by a moustache)!
  • 9Lemmy suffers from Type-2 diabetes.
  • 10Lemmy and Wendy O. Williams released a cover version of Tammy Wynette's country classic "Stand by Your Man" in 1982.
  • 11Lemmy is one of the interviewees in the book Sex Tips from Rock Stars by Paul Miles
  • 12Lemmy appears in the 1994 comedy Airheads in which the following dialogue is featured:
    Chazz: "Who'd win in a wrestling match, Lemmy or God?"
    Cop: "Lemmy",
    Rex imitates a "wrong answer" game show buzzer,
    Cop: "... God!",
    Rex: "Wrong, dickhead, trick question. Lemmy IS God"!
  • 13Together with Slim Jim Phantom from The Stray Cats and Danny B. Harvey from Rockats, Lemmy is a member of a rockabilly supergroup called The Head Cat
  • 14In a 2009 interview with the Calgary Herald Lemmy was quoted as saying that he drank: "...about a bottle of Jack (Daniel's) a day."
  • 15In the 1960's Lemmy worked as a roadie for The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
  • 16Lemmy and Motorhead have had a long association with the all female British Heavy Metal band Girlschool. The two bands collaborated on a 1981 EP entitled "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" and promoted the EP with an appearance on the BBC TV show Top of the Pops using the name Headgirl and performing the song Please Don't Touch.
  • 17The IMDB biography page for Lemmy lists his height as 5' 10" (1.78 m)
  • 18Lemmy was sacked from Hawkwind in 1975 and formed a new band which he eventually named after the last song he wrote for Hawkwind called Motorhead.
  • 19In February 2011, Lemmy played a limo driver in a music video for the song "White Limo" by the Foo Fighters from their latest album Wasting Light.
  • 20Lemmy and Motorhead were featured performing "Ace of Spades" in the "Bambi" episode of the cult BBC TV comedy series "The Young Ones".

Motorhead On "The Young Ones" 1984

Motorhead performing their classic "Ace of Spades" on the BBC show "The Young Ones"

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Lemmy Quotes

"If you think you're too old to rock and roll...then you are!"

Lemmy Talks About His Life And Career

Lemmy interviewed in 2008

Motörhead's Lemmy: TV-Interview
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Lemmy: The Movie!

A feature length rockumentary on the life and career of the legendary Lemmy Kilmister!

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"...a rare and revealing look at Lemmy's life with candid at-home interviews, studio sessions, and priceless live concert footage...featuring a star-studded lineup including Metallica, Dave Grohl, Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, Jarvis Cocker, Joan Jett, Billy Bob Thornton, Slash, pro wrestler Triple H, and members of The Clash, Guns N Roses, Jane's Addiction, and more!"

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Lemmy Quotes

"They're not warts...they're moles!"

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Lemmy forged Motorhead from own principles
The legend of Lemmy ? hard-livingrock 'n' rollbass player, Jack-and-Coke aficionado, frontman for Motorhead since 1975 ? begins with his alleged expulsion from the Ysgol Syr Thomas Jones school in North Wales. The story is so irresistible ? the ...
The Wörld (and Abbotsford) is Motörhead's
By Jacob Zinn Lemmy and co. will do more than teach you how to grow a rockin' mustache on Feb. 20. Podknox/Flickr. This Monday, around 8 pm, the Abbotsford Entertainment & Sports Centre will be the loudest place on earth. That's around when Motörhead ...
Lemmy on Beavis and Butthead: 'For a While I Thought They Were Real'
Now on the road as part of Gigantour, a traveling metal fest featuring Megadeth, Volbeat and Lacuna Coil, one-of-a-kind Motörhead founder Lemmy Kilmister took a few minutes recently to catch up with Noisecreep. Lemmy, are you happy with the new live ...
The Year Lemmy Saved My Lounge Band Soul
Lemmy has been known to cry. ?We're Broxton and we play lounge music!? I was known to cry. And you go out and, relatively speaking, since your audience is just finishing their shrimp cocktails and side Caesars and are ready for a little Billy Joel, ...

Lemmy & Motorhead: Kronenbourg 1664 TV Commercial

Lemmy & Motorhead and that iconic Kronenbourg 1664 TV advert!

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Lemmy Quotes

"We want to be the band that if we moved in next door to you, your lawn would die!"

Lemmy Talks!

Lemmy interview from A Headbangers Journey

Lemmy interview from A Headbangers Journey
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Lemmy Discography

Studio albums featuring Lemmy as a member of The Rockin' Vickers, Sam Gopal, Hawkwind, Robert Calvert and Motorhead

A list of studio albums featuring Lemmy as a member of the bands The Rockin' Vickers, Sam Gopal, Hawkwind, Robert Calvert and Motorhead - he's also featured on numerous complilation and live albums by the above bands plus several EPs and singles and has made guest appearances on many charity collaborations and releases by other artists - I'd love to list them all, but the space available doesn't allow for Lemmy's prolific musical output!

You can see a complete list on Wikipedia at Lemmy Discography

More About Motorhead!

Lemmy is the vocalist for British heavy metal/hard rock band Motorhead

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Motorhead: Born To Raise Hell

Motorhead with Born To Raise Hell - featured on the movie "Airheads"

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Lemmy Quotes

"There's only two types of music...music you like and music you don't like"

Lemmy Quiz!

Test your knowledge of Lemmy with this 10 question quiz!

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Lemmy on the internet

MOTORHEAD - THE OFFICIAL WEB SITE
Better Motorhead Than Dead
MOTORHEAD SPEAKS!
Motorhead Official Web Page - Lemmy Speaks area where Motorhead's famous lead singer and bassist Lemmy Killmeister answers questions!
Metal Guru - interview with Lemmy
The Telegraph interview with Lemmy
Lemmy Kilmister | Facebook
Official Facebook Page about Lemmy Kilmister.
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