RockArtist review 1: Lemmy Kilmister

For this new year I decided to launch a new rubric and each edition will talk of a rock or metal musician. The broadcasts will be heading rather random and not once a month, like the others.
For this first edition, I had to talk about the badass No. 1, the legend of Rock N Roll, the one and only: Lemmy Kilmister.

Lemmy decided to start in music when he was still at school. He came with a guitar in the courtyard, and became surrounded by girls. Lemmy said to himself "this is a job for me". His favorite band was the Beatles. But, Lemmy not started by Motörhead. 

In 1971, Lemmy joined Hawkwind, English space rock band, as bass player and singer. He still has no experience with bass guitar, but quickly knows how to develop a distinctive and unique playing style, strongly influenced by his past as rhythm guitarist. His bass playing was fundamental to the distilled sound by the group at that time. But the adventure with Hawkwind did not last long because in 1975, Lemmy was fired from the band after being arrested at the Canadian border, in possession of illegal substances.

Then Lemmy decided to form a band called Bastards, but the name is not really catchy and Lemmy changed the name in Motörhead, which remains the final name. In the early years, the group struggles to come forward because of their different and aggressive style. But with the years and album releases, Motörhead gained more and more notoriety, and is now considered as one of the pioneers of Heavy Metal.

During his life, Lemmy has consumed phenomenal amounts of alcohol and drugs, passing his life to destroy his body. But aside from that and behind its appearance of brutal and aggressive rocker, Lemmy was a generous man, kind, who liked his fans and was mainly playing music for passion. The money was never his priority and he preferred to live in a small apartment in Los Angeles rather than in a luxurious mansion. Lemmy was also a gentleman and he can not stand people who disrespect women. An anecdote tells that one day in a street in Los Angeles, he rescued a woman who was being attacked by an armed man. Lemmy liked girls and they liked him too. Lemmy has never been married, but as he liked to say "I had sex with girls on every continents."

Lemmy sadly passed away the December 28, 2015, just four days after his 70th birthday. He lived his life doing what he loved, and he played rock until the end, as the title of a song from the last album of Motörhead: Till the end.

Rock in peace Lemmy

You stay in our hearts forever \m/

Mathias, the Lordi Rider

Fire and Blood \m/