Lemmy the 65th "If you sit by the river long enough, you look at some point the body of your enemy float by," says a Chinese proverb. Ian Fraser Kilmister, Lemmy called, but is certainly not a Chinese but British through and through, but on the career of the legendary frontman of the notorious Rock `n` roll band Motorhead, on 24 December celebrated his 65th birthday, the saying fits determined.
"We's been four years longer than the Third Reich," Lemmy said in 1991 by his band. to think in categories too tight, you can not blame the man also. Now there are already 23rd In 35 "on the Road" lay the veteran against a successful twentieth album (The Wörld is Yours). Time to ask how the hell it could even go so far.
Kilmister was born in 1945 as a child with protruding ears, a field chaplain of the Royal Air Force and a librarian. Circumstances that should be dominated. His own are still an irrepressible aversion - the father of the family in the lurch - against all things religious and any hypocrisy, an insatiable interest in the Second World War history and a great love of books.
Inspired by the rock and roll revolution of the 50s opened up Lemmy, as he is called since he was ten years, now other fields of interest: "I have found out that women do can bring to take off their clothes, if you have a guitar. And the shells are falling even faster when you can play on the guitar, too. "
After dealing with both had refined in various bands, moved into Lemmy Kilmister Swinging London in the 60s. There he worked as a roadie for Jimi Hendrix, which expanded his horizons enormously. Both in terms of music, as well as far as the virtuoso handling of drugs, a hobby, he should indulge into old age. The Hendrix crew, he recalled in his autobiography "White Line Fever", is sometimes so high was that you could observe some of the members in how they spoke in the park with the trees. "Sometimes came it even before that the trees chosen for the debate itself. "
After a stint at the Mad Space rockers Hawkwind (Silver Machine), Lemmy formed Motorhead in 1975. A power trio like Cream or the Experience. The stylistically similar to the angry political rockers MC5 should. In other words: ". Loud, fast, rough, arrogant, paranoid speed freak Rock'n'Roll"
With this blueprint, flanked by two street buddies, the speed-dealer Philthy "Animal" Taylor on drums and a hippie named "Fast" Eddie Clark on guitar, Lemmy rose 1977-1981 trilogy with the album Overkill, Bomber and the magnum opus Ace Of Spades, still crowned with the No. 1 live album No Sleep 'till Hammersmith, on a superstar.
could then only go in one direction - for now: "What should I bring for a live album that had made it to number one, yet? We were on the ass, instantly ", followed by numerous lineup changes, countless Todsagungen by the press -. How can a band to the skies praise, which claims itself if you move next door, your lawn would die? - And more comebacks. Currently there is
time again: Motörhead play in large halls, the documentary "Lemmy: The Movie celebrated recently premiered in Berlin (to be published on January 13 on DVD), itself a collection of the sayings of the most original heavy metal veteran, "Lemmy Talking" (Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, 2010), came out.
What is it about the late success all about? People go for the same reasons to a Motorhead show, which drive them in dinosaur exhibits? A mixture of natural and historical interest sensationalism? Or is it that Lemmy the denim jacket as a cultural phenomenon and the existence of the Cowboys-White-depth industry has made great service?
It is clear that Motörhead at their intransigence and their unshakeable faith in the power of Rock and roll music of the lowest common denominator of punks, rockers and metal fans are, so they have virtually unifying character. In this they are at best AC / DC comparable.
can now "no one understood how bad it was before rock and roll! I had my before we loud music, it was for us only Frank Sinatra, Lita Roza, Ronnie Carroll and Dickie Valentine, "says Lemmy. This nightmarish experience seems to be the drive to never give up for him.
is thus preserved in this monument to hedonism whiskey the only remaining rock and rollers of the old school. Well, there's Keith Richards, but even the Rolling Stone has the Motörhead something ahead exchange Inspired by reports of similar joyful celebration Richards regularly let his blood, he wanted to try it also says Lemmy. "We therefore looked to my doctor and my blood were examined. When we came back the next day, he told me: "whatever you do, you can not exchange their blood - blood clean kill, you would," My blood was in a kind of organic soup turns - it included all kinds of trace elements related to .
only hope that one's prediction of rock and roll mutants Lemmy, "I play until I'm seventy. Then I fall dead from the stage "does not occurs. He lived the life of a 25-year-olds, it was just a very extensive 25th Age, he once said, mutatis mutandis. Let us, then just imagine that he approaches slowly on the 30th
