18- Facts About Lemmy Kilmister

Hello Motörhead fans this week we have listed some nice Lemmy Kilmister Facts

1 Lemmy was not immortal

The metal world has lost its pope. But given the lifestyle he pursued, it is still quite amazing that Lemmy lived to be 70, and rocked the stage to his very last days (he died literally days after finishing his last tour).

Motorhead’s signature song Ace of Spades includes the line “I don’t want to live forever…”, but the creators of Rock Band 2 video game in which the song appears changed the lyrics to “I don’t want to live forever…But, apparently I am.”

2 Lemmy was Jimi Hendrix’s roadie

After moving to London in 1967, Lemmy made friends with Noel Redding who played bass in Jimi Hendrix’s band. Lemmy was then offered a job and spent 8 months working as a roadie for the group. And Hendrix’s personal acid dealer.

When asked if he had learned anything from Hendrix, Lemmy aptly responded

Yeah, I learned to give up guitar and play bass instead.

3- Lemmy wrote the lyrics to Ozzy Osbourne’s 1991

‘No More Tears’ album and has mentioned in several interviews that he made more money from the royalties of ‘Mama I’m Coming Home’ than he had in his entire time with Motorhead.

4 Lemmy’s memorial service was streamed online

Since fans were not allowed to attend the ceremony, Lemmy’s friends and family decided that the memorial service would be streamed live online and the remaining band members encouraged the fans to join the ceremony from their homes of favourite pubs.

5 He did not pick up bass until he was 23

Although in Hawkwind and Motörhead Lemmy played bass, he did not actually pick up the instrument until he was 23. Before that, he mostly played rhythm guitar, which greatly influenced his later style as a bassist: picking technique and his extensive use of two- and three-tones rather than single notes the way most bass players do.

6 He talked inevitability of death long before he passed away in December 2015

Lemmy understood the inevitability of death and often commented on it in interviews:

Death is an inevitability, isn’t it? You become more aware of that when you get to my age. I don’t worry about it. I’m ready for it. When I go, I want to go doing what I do best. If I died tomorrow, I couldn’t complain. It’s been good.

or:

People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are, but it’s not true! People are still assholes, they’re just dead assholes! I didn’t have a really important life, but at least it’s been funny.

 

7- Rickenbacker paid tribute to Lemmy with the introduction of the 4004LK in 1995, a signature bass limited to 60 pieces. LK referring to his initials.

8 Lemmy reportedly wanted to put his facial warts on an auction

Lemmy’s facial warts are almost as popular as the man himself, but more importantly they were also the object of many jokes and comments by Lemmy himself. In one interview he even admitted he was open to the possibility of auctioning the warts off to anyone who wanted them.

Yeah, I could sell them on the Internet, like that porn-star chick Houston who sold pieces of her labia.

9- The UK based men’s lifestyle magazine, Maxim had Lemmy at number 8 on its top ten “Living Sex Legends” list in their June 2006 edition.

10 Lemmy co-wrote a few songs for Ozzy Osbourne

Apart from “My Little Man” mentioned a few paragraphs above, Lemmy also co-wrote several earlier Osbourne’s hits like Hellraiser (which later also appeared as Motörhead song) and I Don’t Want To Change The World.

When I came to America I was broke, I had nothing in the bank. Sharon Osbourne asked if I wanted to write four songs for Ozzy and they handed me this lump sum that was more money than I’d ever seen in my life. More money than I’d ever earned with Hawkwind and Motörhead.

11 Lemmy was already 30 years old when he started Motörhead

It might sound like a plausible beginning of a motivational story, but Lemmy did not start Motörhead until he was in his 30’s. The band itself only become known when he turned 35.

12 Lemmy invited guitar virtuoso Steve Vai to play on Motörhead’s Inferno

It’s quite an uncanny collaboration when you think about it, yes, but Steve Vai actually made a guest appearance on Motörhead’s Inferno album, you can hear his soloing in “Terminal Show” and “Down on Me”.

“My Little Man”, a song from Ozzy Osbourne’s “Osmosis” is another result of the collaboration of the two.

13 Lemmy’s pre-Motörhead band Hawkwind was actually awesome

Few people know but before forming Motörhead Lemmy played in an amazing space-rock band Hawkwind which was quite good and innovative back in the days. Lemmy and Hawkwind split ways in the wake of Kilmister’s being arrested for drug possession in 1975. The charges were dropped, but Lemmy did not get his Hawkwind gig back. He himself believed the incident was only a pretext to kick him out.

Getting fired from Hawkwind was certainly unfair… but hey, if it hadn’t happened we might have never heard of Motörhead.

14 – When Lemmy was four years old, he had 10 of his teeth removed without anesthesia.

15- Lemmy had made several cameo appearences in a number of movies and TV commercials including one for Kit Kat.

16- Lemmy had admitted, he and his son Paul Inder had swapped girlfriends, twice!

17- He used to be the road manager for the English progressive rock supergroup Emerson, Lake and Palmer. He was also briefly a roadie for Jimi Hendrix.

18- Lemmy named the band ‘Motorhead’ after the last song he wrote for his previous band Hawkwind. The band was originally known as ‘Bastard’.

Sources : https://voidberg.com/pop-culture/10-surprising-facts-about-lemmy-kilmister/