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
singing harmony
Everybody [in The Beatles ] was singing at the same time and the harmonies were great.
holiday surprise window
I climbed down the outside of a Holiday Inn once just to surprise one of my crew by getting on his balcony and knocking on his window.
drug unfaithful boring
How many times can a rock star go over the top on drugs? How many times can a rock star be unfaithful to his old lady? It is really fu**ing boring, and that is what they do over and over and over. They just print the same sh*t.
mind
Eric Clapton wrote "Layla" when he was coked out of his mind. Later on, it nearly killed him.
girl song fun
The first time The Runaways played in Britain, Joan Jett wore my bullet belt onstage. The Runaways were really the first all-girl band to really strut their stuff and say, "F**k you." "Cherry Bomb" was the best song for a girl band to sing. It was just outrageous at the time. There were American families sitting on the sofa watching television going, "F**k me." It was great fun.
thinking chance grammy
If I hadn't been living here [in America], do you think we would have gotten a Grammy? No chance.
song mercy grammy
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.
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.
enough
We never played China, India or Africa. We also haven't played Russia enough. I would love to play those places.
shame
It's just that I am too old now to chase all the woman involved; which just seems a shame.
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.
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.
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.
done dedicated
Daily papers in England used to have an entire page of the paper dedicated to what the Beatles had done the day before.