Who is Lemmy

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".