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Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister of Motorhead Dies at 70

Metal Icon Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister from Motörhead passes away at 70

For the second time this month, the Rock/Metal world is in mourning, this time for an iconic frontman of a legendary British Metal group. Lemmy from Motörhead passed away just 4 days after finding out he had an "extremely aggressive" form of Cancer on Monday.

Lemmy, who's real name was Ian Fraser Kilmister, made his rise to fame with the band Motörhead in the 1970s and 1980s, and he was the sole remaining member of the original lineup of Motörhead.

The band released 22 albums which featured the iconic hits of Motörhead, which includes "Ace of Spades", "Overkill", and "No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith"

Rock music bands and rock icons including Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, Foo Fighters and members of Kiss, Megadeth and Anthrax reacted to the news on social media.

WWE also paid tribute to Lemmy on their flagship show Monday Night Raw right before the main event match between John Cena and Alberto Del Rio for Del Rio's WWE United States Championship. Motörhead written 3 songs for WWE, which were "The Game", "Line In The Sand" and "King Of Kings", all used by WWE wrestler and on-screen authority figure Triple H (Line In The Sand, was written for Triple H's villainous stable, Evolution, which also included Ric Flair, Randy Orton and Batista.). In fact Lemmy and Motörhead performed "The Game" at two different WrestleManias in which the performed it at WrestleMania 17 in Houston, TX in 2001 and then again at WrestleMania 21 in Los Angeles, CA in 2005.

Lemmy had some recent health issues, as he had been dealing with Diabetes and Hypertension, which resulted in him cutting back on his use of drugs and alcohol.

In fact, he in August he was dealing with what the band said at the time was a Lung Infection. It resulted in Motörhead canceling some shows and on September 1st, Lemmy stop a Motörhead show midway though the show saying "I can't do it" during a show in Austin, TX. The band did blame Altitude Sickness caused by Lemmy being in Colorado recently at that point.

Lemmy's death came two days after he turned 70 years old.

Lemmy's death also came weeks after Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver was found dead in his tour bus in Bloomington, MN at the age of 48 while touring with his new band Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts, from a accidental drug overdose earlier this month. December was not a good month for the Rock Music world.

http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/hard-living-lemmy-kilmister-mot-rhead-dies-70-band-confirms-n487071
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/29/lemmy-kilmister-obituary
 
Will_H_69_9 said:
it took longer to make my Post while someone else beat me to the punch, so mods, please merge this with the other Lemmy thread in this section please.
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Very well said.

I've been playing Motorhead non stop today. Some key tunes:

"Ace of Spades" (1980)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KysKdijAhJI

Their best known hit. But here are some overlooked Motorhead classics:

"Orgasmatron" (1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_wstN5TclI

Classic metal with some brilliant lyrics.

"1916" (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw02WwiUD8Q

If you were ever looking for a really good meaningful song for Memorial Day (good for all formats with clean, but very illustrative lyrics), I highly recommend this one. You can't help but get a lump in your throat. (Lyrics in YouTube link description)

"Just 'Cos You Got The Power (That Don't Mean You Got The Right)" (1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQRwcHtQzyg

Sounds like it could have been written for the Bernie Sanders campaign yesterday.

I've been a fan of Motorhead since I was a teenager If there's one thing I can say for Lemmy, he's a lot sharper than the computerized crap that generate the squeaky Auto-Tune noises of today. And for all his vices, smoking, drinking and swearing. Lemmy made Keith Richards look like a teetotaller. He defied every odd imaginable and lived his life the way he wanted until the very end.

I wonder if we're doing it wrong.
 
Loved Lemmy...his interviews are usually great listens/reads.

I too was cranking Motorhead last night. Got to the song "Rock n' Roll" and heard this lyric:

Marching to a different drum
I hear a different song

That was Lemmy as we saw them. Nowadays, rockers go to rehab when they get busted with drugs. Lemmy got fired, told Hawkwind where to stick it, and blazed his own trail for 40 years. We giggled at his infamous drug and booze consumption...secretly, a lot of us probably wanted to be more like him.

Radio-X
 
Radio-X said:
Loved Lemmy...his interviews are usually great listens/reads.

I too was cranking Motorhead last night. Got to the song "Rock n' Roll" and heard this lyric:

Marching to a different drum
I hear a different song

That was Lemmy as we saw them. Nowadays, rockers go to rehab when they get busted with drugs. Lemmy got fired, told Hawkwind where to stick it, and blazed his own trail for 40 years. We giggled at his infamous drug and booze consumption...secretly, a lot of us probably wanted to be more like him.

Radio-X
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I used to party my face off and did every indulgence on the table...Until it all caught up with me one near fatal night. But everything I did for 15 years probably wouldn't make a weekend in Lemmy's life. I never knew how he kept going. Anyone who can drink a whole fifth of Jack Daniels right from the bottle during an interview like water and still maintain a coherent, intelligent discussion is either a god or simply indestructible. I never seen anyone like that, not even the most functioning alcoholic.

I'm sure any radio station that interviewed him had to prerecord it because of his um, vocabulary and did it outside the station or made some major exception to the non-smoking/drugs/drinking rule. (It was Lemmy after all and getting an interview and a few promos with Lemmy would score priceless points with the local heavy metal community.)
 
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