Lemmy Kilmister

Real/Full Name: Ian Fraser Kilmister
Date of Birth: December 24th, 1945
Origin: England ( Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire )
Date of Death: December 28th, 2015 ( prostate cancer, age 70 )
Instruments: bass, vocal

Last bands:
Motörhead
The Head Cat

Past bands:
Hawkwind

Main discography:
[ 1972 ] Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido
[ 1974 ] Hawkwind - Hall of The Mountain Grill
[ 1975 ] Hawkwind - Warrior On The Edge of Time
[ 1977 ] Motörhead - Motörhead
[ 1979 ] Motörhead - Overkill
[ 1979 ] Motörhead - Bomber
[ 1979 ] Motörhead - On Parole
[ 1980 ] Motörhead - Ace of Spades
[ 1982 ] Motörhead - Iron Fist
[ 1983 ] Motörhead - Another Perfect Day
[ 1986 ] Motörhead - Orgasmatron
[ 1987 ] Motörhead - Rock N' Roll
[ 1991 ] Motörhead - 1916
[ 1992 ] Motörhead - March ör Die
[ 1993 ] Motörhead - Bastards
[ 1995 ] Motörhead - Sacrifice
[ 1996 ] Motörhead - Overnight Sensation
[ 1998 ] Motörhead - Snake Bite Love
[ 2000 ] The Head Cat - Lemmy, Slim Jim & Danny B
[ 2000 ] Motörhead - We Are Motörhead
[ 2002 ] Motörhead - Hammered
[ 2004 ] Motörhead - Inferno
[ 2006 ] The Head Cat - Fool's Paradise
[ 2006 ] Motörhead - Kiss of Death
[ 2008 ] Motörhead - Motörizer
[ 2010 ] Motörhead - The Wörld is Yours
[ 2011 ] The Head Cat - Walk The Walk... Talk The Talk
[ 2013 ] Motörhead - Aftershock
[ 2015 ] Motörhead - Bad Magic

Guest:
[ 1993 ] Fast Eddie Clarke - It Ain't Over 'Till It's Over
[ 1999 ] A.N.I.M.A.L. - Usa Toda Tu Fuerza
[ 2004 ] Probot - Probot
[ 2007 ] Saxon - The Inner Sanctum
[ 2010 ] Slash - Slash
[ 2012 ] Doro - Raise Your Fist

As Producer:
[ 1985 ] Warfare - Metal Anarchy
[ 2000 ] Doro - Calling The Wild


Instruments:

Rickenbacker LK

Images:

 

Informations:

• Lemmy had appeared as an unlockable character on the game Guitar Hero: Metallica.

• When he was a child, Lemmy had moved with his family in the Welsh town of Benllech, and studied at Sir Thomas Jones' School in Amlwch, where he was nicknamed as "Lemmy", such nickname was taken from the phrase "Lemmy ( Lend Me ) a quid 'til Friday", because of his alleged habit of borrowing money from people to play slot machines. He soon started to show an interest on Rock N' Roll, girls and horses.

• At school, Lemmy noticed a pupil who had brought a guitar and had been surrounded by girls. His mother had a guitar, which he then took to school, even though he could not play, and was himself surrounded by girls. After that, Lemmy left school and had moved to Conwy, where he worked at menial jobs while also playing guitar at some local bands.

• In 1971, Lemmy joined the band Hawkwind, as a bassist. He had no previous experience with the bass, so he developed a distinctive style that was strongly shaped by his experiences as a rhythm guitarist, often using double stops and chords rather than the single note lines preferred by most bassists.

• In 1979, Lemmy was arrested at the Canada/USA border in Windsor, Ontario, on drug possession charges. He spent five days in jail but was released without charge. However, after this event, Lemmy was fired from Hawkind, which led him to create his own band, Motörhead. 

• Lemmy was well known for his alcohol abuse. The documentary Motörhead: Live Fast, Die Old stated that he drank an entire bottle of Jack Daniel's whiskey every day and had done so since he was 30 years old. However in 2013, Lemmy stopped drinking for health reasons.

• In the documentary Motörhead: Live Fast, Die Öld, released in August 22nd 2005, it was claimed that Lemmy has bedded in excess of 2.000 women. Lemmy stated: "I said more than a thousand, the magazine made two thousand of it". Meanwhile, the Maxim magazine had Lemmy at #8 on Top 10 Living Sex Legends, as they claimed he had slept with around 1.200 women.

• Lemmy collected German military medals ( he had an Iron Cross encrusted on his bass ), specifically some Nazi German medals, which led to accusations of Nazi sympathies. He stated that he collected the memorabilia and regalias only for estethic, because he liked the way it looked, despite he abominated both Nazi and Communism ideologies, and defend his collection by that if his black girlfriend ( Cheryl Keuleman ) had no problem with it, nobody else should. Lemmy also considered himself as an anarchist or libertarian and was against religion, government and established authority.