Lemmy
A bronze figure of Lemmy now stands on Market Place in Burslem, the Stoke-on-Trent district where Ian Fraser Kilmister was born on the 24th of December 1945. Local sculptor Andy Edwards made it. It was unveiled on the 9th of May 2025, with Motörhead guitarist Phil Campbell looking on. The statue shows Lemmy holding his Rickenbacker bass, and a small portion of his ashes is held in the plinth.
Lemmy founded Motörhead, sang lead, played bass and wrote most of its songs. He was its only continuous member from 1975 until he died on the 28th of December 2015, aged 70. His gravelly voice, mutton chops and military-flavoured clothes made him one of rock's most recognisable figures.
How does an only child from the English Midlands, raised partly in Wales, end up honoured with a statue in his birthplace? Why did a man who loved punk and rock and roll end up as a pillar of heavy metal? And what made his bass playing so strange that his own drummers struggled to follow it? The answers start with a guitar that did not belong to him.
Three months after Ian Kilmister was born, his father separated from his mother. The father was a former Royal Air Force chaplain and concert pianist. Lemmy was their only child. His mother and grandmother took him first to Newcastle-under-Lyme and then to Madeley.
When he was 10, his mother married George L. Willis, a former rugby player who already had two older children, Patricia and Tony. Ian disliked them both. The family later moved to a farm in Benllech, a village on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. Lemmy recalled being the only English child among 700 Welsh ones. It was not especially happy, he said, but it was "interesting from an anthropological point of view".
At Ysgol Syr Thomas Jones, a comprehensive school in Amlwch, classmates gave him the nickname Lemmy. Some later said it came from "lemmy lend me a quid 'til Friday", because he supposedly borrowed money to feed slot machines. Lemmy said he never knew where the name came from.
One pupil arrived at school with a guitar and was surrounded by admiring girls. Lemmy noticed. His mother owned a guitar, so he carried it in and drew the same crowd, even though he could not play. By the time he left school, the family had moved again, to Conwy. He took odd jobs, including one at the local Hotpoint appliance factory. He played guitar with a local band called the Sundowners and spent time at a horse-riding school.
At 16 he saw the Beatles at The Cavern Club in Liverpool. He then learned guitar by playing along to their debut album, Please Please Me, released in 1963. He loved the group's sarcastic edge, especially John Lennon's. In his telling, manager Brian Epstein had polished their image, but the band stayed tough, shaped by Liverpool's docks and sailors. The Rolling Stones, he thought, were mummy's boys from the outskirts of London who made fine records but were poor on stage.
His own working years began in Stockport, where he joined the Rainmakers and then the Motown Sect, who played northern clubs for three years. In 1965 he joined the Rockin' Vickers. They signed with CBS, released three singles and toured Europe. They were reportedly the first British band to visit the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The group later moved to Manchester and shared a flat.
Lemmy moved to London in 1967. There he shared a flat with Noel Redding, bassist of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and with the band's road manager, Neville Chesters. That connection got him a job as a roadie for the Experience. In 1968 he joined the psychedelic band Sam Gopal under the name Ian Willis, and they recorded the album Escalator, released in 1969.
That same year he met Simon King at a shopping centre in Chelsea and joined Opal Butterfly. The group disbanded soon after, since its singles raised too little interest. Within two years, a missing bass player would hand him a very different opening.
In August 1971, Lemmy joined the space rock band Hawkwind, based in Ladbroke Grove, London, just before a benefit gig in Notting Hill. Bandmate Michael "Dik Mik" Davies pushed him to join. Davies wanted a second member who enjoyed amphetamine. Lemmy had never played bass in his life.
Lemmy's version is that he first auditioned as a guitarist. On the morning of the gig, the band decided against hiring another guitarist. By chance, the regular bass player did not turn up and had left his equipment in the van. Lemmy summed it up in his own words: "So I stole his gig."
He approached the instrument as the rhythm guitarist he had been. Instead of single-note lines, he leaned on double stops and chords. His bass became a defining part of the Hawkwind sound, and perhaps the best record of it is the double live album Space Ritual. He also sang lead on several songs. One of them, "Silver Machine", reached number 3 in the UK in 1972 and became the band's biggest chart single.
In May 1975, during a North American tour, border police at Windsor, Ontario, arrested him on drug possession charges. The powder he carried was amphetamine, but officers took it for cocaine. He spent the night in jail and was released without charge. Even so, the band and its management feared the arrest could block their return to the United States. They were also weary of what they saw as his erratic behaviour. They fired him.
Looking back, Lemmy said he had liked the band and believed he would still be playing with them had he not been thrown out. He praised the drummer and the guitarist. It was fun onstage, he said, but "not so much offstage".
The bond never fully broke. In 2018, Hawkwind recorded a new acoustic version of his song "The Watcher", first heard on Doremi Fasol Latido. It appeared on the album Road to Utopia, with Mike Batt producing and Eric Clapton guesting.
Lemmy's next band started life with a name that doomed it. He formed a group called Bastard with guitarist Larry Wallis, who had played with the Pink Fairies, with Shagrat (the band of Steve Peregrin Took) and with UFO. The drummer was Lucas Fox. Took was a friend of Lemmy and the stepfather of Lemmy's son Paul.
His manager warned him that a band called Bastard would never get a slot on Top of the Pops. So Lemmy renamed it Motörhead, after the last song he had written for Hawkwind.
Wallis and Fox soon gave way to guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke and drummer Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor. With that line-up, success arrived. Lemmy's guttural vocals were unlike anything else in rock at the time, and they were copied once punk rock took off. The sound won over Lemmy's original fans and eventually punk fans too.
Lemmy said he felt more kinship with punks than with metalheads. For a handful of gigs he even played bass for the Damned, who had no regular bassist at the time. Dave Grohl later wrote that Lemmy told him, quite firmly, that he never thought of Motörhead as a metal band. Grohl recalled that Lemmy's track for his Probot project was recorded in Los Angeles in about two takes.
The band's success peaked in 1980 and 1981. There were several UK chart hits, including the single "Ace of Spades", which stayed a crowd favourite for the rest of the band's career. The live album No Sleep 'til Hammersmith went to number 1 in the UK. Motörhead became one of the most influential bands in heavy metal.
Their last concert, and Lemmy's, took place in Berlin on the 11th of December 2015, during the band's 40th Anniversary Tour. He had less than three weeks left.
Lemmy kept his microphone unusually high, tilted so that he seemed to be singing at the sky. He said the reason was personal comfort. It also spared him the sight of the crowd, back when the audience was "ten people and a dog". Inspired by Jimi Hendrix, he recorded his studio vocals in complete privacy, singing in a closed booth where nobody could see him, not even the producer.
His first Rickenbacker belonged to Dave Anderson. After Anderson left Hawkwind, Lemmy bought a Hopf Studio bass from synth player Del Dettmar. Rickenbackers remained his instrument for most of his career. In September 1996, one of his basses featured in the Bang Your Head exhibition at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.
From 1996, his main bass was a Rickenbacker 4001LK, one of a limited run of 50. It had hand-carved body wings decorated with oak leaves, three HB1 humbucker pick-ups and gold-plated hardware. Lemmy remarked that Rickenbacker had at last made decent pick-ups. Asked why he liked the brand, he said it was the shape. He cared about image, he added, and a good-looking bass could always be fixed with new pick-ups if it sounded bad.
His amplifier in Hawkwind was a Selmer. With Motörhead he used a 1976 Marshall 1992 JMP Super Bass Mark 2 stack, with a 4x15 inch and a 4x12 inch cabinet. In 2008, Marshall released the 1992LEM, a model named for him and offered with the same cabinets.
The sound that came out of that rig was famously harsh. He turned gain, treble and mid to high levels and kept the bass control low for clarity. The result sat in the mid-range, with a droning quality compared to a circular saw. Instead of plucking single notes, he strummed hard and often played several strings at once. In his words: "It's not like having a bass player; it's like having a deep guitarist."
John Entwistle of The Who was his top inspiration on the instrument. Lemmy never copied Entwistle's style. He took from him a bold tone and a more prominent melodic role.
That approach reshaped the rhythm section around him. Hawkwind drummer Simon King explained that Lemmy, a natural front man, could step forward and play a kind of lead on bass while the drummer followed the guitarist. Motörhead's Phil Taylor said Lemmy was hard to follow because there were no solid bass lines. Taylor adjusted by stressing the lower tom toms to fill the low end.
A bottle of Jack Daniel's a day was Lemmy's habit, according to the documentary Motörhead: Live Fast, Die Old, and he had kept it up since turning 30. In 2013 he gave up Jack Daniel's for health reasons.
His amphetamine use began earlier. Before Hawkwind, Dik Mik turned up at his home in the middle of the night and took amphetamines with him. The pair became curious how long the human body could be kept jumping about without stopping. They tried to find out for a few months, until Dik Mik ran out of money and went back to Hawkwind, taking Lemmy along.
Lemmy described speed as a utilitarian drug. It kept you awake when you needed to be, such as after nine hours in a sweaty truck on the way to Glasgow. He said it was the only drug he got on with, and that he had tried them all except heroin and morphine. He had never injected anything.
In November 2005, Conservative member William Graham invited him to the National Assembly for Wales as a guest speaker. Asked about the harm drugs do, Lemmy called for heroin to be legalised. He argued that this would remove the dealer from society and generate tax money, however hard that was to accept.
His collection of German military regalia drew harsher attention. He wore an Iron Cross on his bass, which prompted accusations of Nazi sympathies. Lemmy said he collected the items because he liked how they looked. He called himself an anarchist and spoke against racism many times. He also said he opposed religion, government and established authority. In 2011 he called himself agnostic: "I can find out when I die. I can wait. I'm not in a hurry."
The hobby won him a friend in Jeff Hanneman, founder of the thrash metal band Slayer, who shared it. Keith Emerson's 2004 autobiography, Pictures of an Exhibitionist, tells another story. Emerson wrote that Lemmy, then a roadie for the Nice, gave him two Hitler Youth knives. Emerson used them as keyholders on his Hammond organ in concerts with the Nice and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, then destroyed them. Lemmy defended the collection by saying his girlfriend at the time, who was black, had no problem with it.
Family ran through the story in quieter ways. At 17 he met a holidaying girl named Cathy and followed her to Stockport. She gave birth to his son Sean, who was put up for adoption. In the 2010 documentary Lemmy, he mentioned a son whose mother had only recently reconnected with him. During his Rockin' Vickers years he slept with a woman in Manchester named Tracy. She had a son, Paul Inder, whom Lemmy met six years later. Inder grew up to become a guitarist and sometimes joined Lemmy on stage.
From 1990 Lemmy lived in Los Angeles. His last home was a two-room apartment two blocks from his favourite hangout, the Rainbow Bar and Grill.
Lemmy's biggest payday came from a song he wrote for someone else. In 1991 he supplied lyrics to four tracks on Ozzy Osbourne's album No More Tears: "Hellraiser", "Desire", "I Don't Want to Change the World" and the single "Mama, I'm Coming Home". Motörhead later recorded "Hellraiser" themselves as a single. Lemmy said in several interviews that the royalties from "Mama, I'm Coming Home" earned him more than his whole time with Motörhead.
Other musicians drew on him in different ways. He wrote "R.A.M.O.N.E.S" for the Ramones and played it live as a tribute. He also produced a Ramones EP and the album Metal Anarchy for Warfare, on which Würzel guested on guitar. He appeared in the Ramones' video for their version of The Who's "Substitute" and in the Foo Fighters video for "White Limo".
In 2001 he took Motörhead to WrestleMania X-Seven, where they played wrestler Triple H to the ring. His autobiography, White Line Fever, came out in November 2002. In 2005, Motörhead won their first Grammy, in the Best Metal Performance category, for a cover of Metallica's "Whiplash". The same year he started on a solo album called Lemmy & Friends, which was meant to include a collaboration with Janet Jackson. It was never released. In 2014 he set up his own label, Motorhead Music, which signed Barb Wire Dolls, Budderside, Others, and Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons.
He had a second life on screen. In 1984, Motörhead were musical guests on the TV show The Young Ones, in the episode "Bambi". In 1986 he appeared as himself in The Comic Strip Presents... episode "More Bad News", alongside Ozzy Osbourne, the Scorpions and Def Leppard. Motörhead recorded the soundtrack to the 1987 comedy Eat the Rich, including its title song. In the 1990 science fiction film Hardware he played a water taxi driver. In the 1994 comedy Airheads he was credited as "Lemmy von Motörhead".
He worked often with Troma Entertainment, narrating Tromeo and Juliet in 1996. His last role was as the President of the United States in Return to Nuke 'Em High. In 2001 he played violin in a string quartet in a Kit Kat advertisement. In 2015 he was a central figure in the silent film Gutterdämmerung, opposite Grace Jones, Henry Rollins and Iggy Pop.
The 2010 documentary Lemmy, directed and produced by Greg Olliver and Wes Orshoski, combined 16 mm film and HD video shot over three years. Interviewees included Dave Grohl, Slash, Ozzy Osbourne, and the members of Metallica.
Video games took him up too. He was the main character in the 1992 game Motörhead for the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST. In 2009 he was an unlockable character in Guitar Hero: Metallica and voiced the Kill Master in Brütal Legend, a character designed around his surname and likeness. Lemmy Koopa in Super Mario Bros. 3 was inspired by him. In 2020's DOOM Eternal, a holographic woman in the final level declares, "Lemmy is God!"
In December 2000, a Lemmy tour was cancelled after he was hospitalised in Italy with flu, exhaustion and a lung infection. In July 2005 he was hospitalised in Germany with extreme dehydration and exhaustion. As he aged, he drank and took drugs less, because he suffered from Type 2 diabetes and hypertension.
In June 2013 it was reported that he had been fitted with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. A severe haematoma forced the cancellation of a tour in July 2013. He described his continued drug use as "dogged insolence in the face of mounting opposition to the contrary". Late in life he needed a walking stick.
He had started smoking at 11. In August 2015 he said he had cut down from two packs a day to one pack a week. In September 2015 he went into hospital with a lung infection, after breathing problems while performing onstage.
His manager, Todd Singerman, described what came next. Lemmy came home from tour and a big birthday party was held for him at the Whisky a Go Go, where friends played. Two days later he seemed unwell and was taken to hospital. A brain scan found cancer in his brain and neck, and the doctor delivered the verdict: terminal. Lemmy was given between two and six months.
Mikael Maglieri, owner of the Rainbow, had a video game machine that Lemmy liked to play removed from the bar and placed in Lemmy's apartment, so he could keep playing from his bedside. The manager had planned to keep the news private until the end. Lemmy urged him to make the diagnosis public in early 2016. He died before a press release could be drafted.
He died at his apartment from prostate cancer, cardiac arrhythmia and congestive heart failure. The band announced his death on its official Facebook page later that day and said the cancer had been diagnosed only two days before.
A memorial service took place at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, on the 9th of January 2016. More than 230,000 people watched the YouTube stream, while others gathered at the Rainbow. He was cremated, and his remains were placed in a 3D-printed urn shaped like his trademark cavalry hat. The urn bore the slogan "Born to lose, lived to win" and was later interred at Forest Lawn.
Tributes poured in from Rob Halford, Dave Grohl, Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, Metallica, Scott Ian of Anthrax and Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath. In a 2013 interview with Classic Rock, the magazine that gave him its first Living Legend award in 2005, he said he was ready for death and wanted to go doing what he did best. "If I died tomorrow, I couldn't complain. It's been good."
In February 2016, the Hollywood Vampires played the Grammy Award ceremony as a tribute. In June 2016, Download Festival renamed its main stage the Lemmy Stage, and in the slot where Motörhead were due to play, it showed a video tribute. On the 17th of November, Metallica released "Murder One", named after Lemmy's frequently used amp, which tells of his rise to fame. In 2016, the French festival Hellfest unveiled a 15-metre statue of him, with Phil Campbell present. A new statue replaced it in 2022, with a memorial holding some of his ashes.
He was also inducted into the Hall of Heavy Metal History on the 18th of January 2017, which credited him as creator of thrash metal. That year an extinct crocodile relative was named Lemmysuchus, and on the 14th of November 2016 asteroid 243002 was officially named 243002 Lemmy. It joined asteroid 250840 Motorhead, named for the band in 2014.
His ashes travelled further by his own request. In March 2021 it emerged that some had been loaded into bullets and sent to close friends, among them Whitfield Crane of Ugly Kid Joe, Rob Halford of Judas Priest, Michael Monroe of Hanoi Rocks, Doro Pesch of Warlock and Riki Rachtman. In August 2023 it was reported that some had been scattered in the mud at Germany's Wacken Open Air festival. In April 2024, James Hetfield of Metallica was reported to have had an Ace of Spades tattooed with ink mixed with some of them.
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Who was Lemmy of Motörhead?
Lemmy, born Ian Fraser Kilmister, was an English musician who founded Motörhead and served as its lead vocalist, bassist and main songwriter. He was the band's only continuous member from 1975 until his death on the 28th of December 2015.
Why was Lemmy fired from Hawkwind?
Hawkwind fired Lemmy after his arrest at the Canadian border in Windsor, Ontario, in May 1975. Border police mistook his amphetamine for cocaine, and the band also saw his behaviour as erratic.
How did Lemmy's band Motörhead get its name?
Lemmy first called the group Bastard, but his manager said that name would never get a slot on Top of the Pops. He renamed it Motörhead, after the last song he had written for Hawkwind.
What made Lemmy's bass playing style different?
Lemmy played bass like a rhythm guitarist, strumming chords and open strings instead of single notes. He ran his Marshall amplification with high gain, treble and mid and low bass, which gave a droning mid-range tone.
What are Lemmy's best-known Motörhead recordings?
Motörhead's success peaked in 1980 and 1981 with the single "Ace of Spades" and the live album No Sleep 'til Hammersmith. The live album reached number 1 in the UK.
How and when did Lemmy die?
Lemmy died at his Los Angeles apartment on the 28th of December 2015, aged 70. The causes were prostate cancer, cardiac arrhythmia and congestive heart failure, and the cancer had been diagnosed only two days earlier.
What happened to Lemmy's ashes?
Some of Lemmy's ashes were placed in a hat-shaped urn interred at Forest Lawn, put into bullets sent to friends, and scattered in the mud at Wacken Open Air. Portions are also held in statues in Burslem and at Hellfest.
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