Biography
Lemmy Kilmister - Legendary Rock Musician, Motörhead Leader. "Pirate" scenic image, fibromes on the face and a rough voice made it icon of rock.Childhood and youth
Lemmi (Jen Freser) Kilmister was born on December 24, 1945 in Bersmere, United Kingdom. The boy had to be born five weeks later.
Father served as Chapel in the UK Air Force. About this quiet and polite man Son responded dismissively. The family soon broke up.
As a child, the musician began smoking and carried away with alcohol. Harmful habits retained for life, abandoning them only in the last three years.
In his youth, played in the team of The Rockin 'Vickers. According to Kilmuser, he saw UFO on the tour. The group was driving through the heather empty, and suddenly a pink ball appeared above the horizon. He flew as if nothing and sharply froze. Some time hung in the sky, pulsating, and then broke out and flew in Lemmi over his head. Moved much faster than any object created by man, and disappeared beyond the horizon in two seconds.
The Rockin 'Vickers became the first British group, playing the tour in the country of Socialistracy - Yugoslavia.
Music
The first famous team in the biography of the musician was Hawkwind, playing psychedelic space rock. Their bassist disappeared, leaving the guitar, and before the concert there were two hours left. Kilmister took someone else's instrument and came out with others on the stage, although before that I never played the rhythm section.In 1975, bass guitarist was arrested on the Canadian border with marijuana in his pocket. But in the protocol they recorded not those substances. After a day, the Briton was released, and he won the concert. And then he learned that he was fired from Hawkwind.
Kilmister said to himself that it is better to create his own group than to fly out of other people. So Motörhead appeared. The team was named after the last song, which the bassist wrote for Hawkwind.
For her career, the group gave more than 5,000 concerts and recorded 23 albums, although almost did not release clips and rarely got into the hit parades. But reached the cult status and nominated at Grammy.
Lemmy was kindly with fans. In 1982, he allowed young Lars Ulrich to attend the studio during the record of the Plate Iron Fist and placed his photo on the inner turn of the cover.
The musician performed in a black hat with Cocardian in the form of the US Cavalry Liners. Instead of the belt, the patrontas was put on, the military medals of different countries hung on the chest, and Soviet were met. Wearing a mustache and bundlebard, but without a beard. Such an unusual image immediately highlighted it from the crowd.
Lemmy did not like the rock scene of the 2000s, when "guys in cellular shirt stared at their shoes." He believed that the audience should see something out of a series of out, which is not in ordinary life.
Personal life
The musician was never married, although he had extramarital children - the sons of the floor and Sean.
Kilmister confessed that he did not lose anything from the bachelor life. He never saw happy marriages, even with his parents. Newspapers wrote that the musician slept with two thousand women. Lemmy, grinning, objected that she put in bed only a thousand. In adolescence, he drove the girls in the garage of the stepfather, because of what a quarrel arose.
Rock musician used all drugs except heroin. In 1980, Lemmy needed blood transfusion, but the doctor said that it would kill him, and his own was a toxic substance.
In the late 70s, the Briton met Site Vishez from the SEX Pistols punk group and tried to teach him to play the bass guitar. But surrendered after ten lessons: his student was never sober.
In 2002, Kilmister wrote a book "On Autopilot", in which he told about his adventures and turbulent personal life with humor.
On the right hand, the Briton wore a tattoo in the form of a marijuana leaf on the poultry chest Phoenix. On the left - the peak card, framed by the words:
"Born to love living to win."Before the disease, the growth of vocalist reached 178 cm, it weighed 65 kg.
Death
The musician died in Los Angeles four days after his 70th birthday, December 28, 2015. The cause of death was called heart failure and prostate cancer.Borsened bass player on January 10, 2016. The ceremony was attended by the drummer Motörhead Mickey Di and Guitarist Guns N 'Roses Slash. Kilmister's grave is located in Forest Lon Park in Los Angeles.
Discography
With The Rockin 'Vickers group:
- 1965 - Zing! Went The Strings of My Heart
- 1965 - IT's Alright
- 1966 - Dandy
With the SAM Gopal group:
- 1969 - escalator.
With a group hawkwind:
- 1972 - GLASTONBURY FAYRE
- 1972 - Greasy Truckers Party
- 1972 - Doremi Fasol Latido
- 1973 - Space Ritual
- 1974 - Hall of the Mountain Grill
- 1975 - Warrior On The Edge Of Time
With the Robert Calvert's Band group:
- 1974 - Captain Lockheed and The Starfighters
- 1980 - Lord of the Hornets
With Motörhead:
- 1976 - ON PAROLE
- 1977 - Motörhead
- 1979 - Overkill.
- 1979 - Bomber
- 1980 - Ace Of Spades
- 1982 - Iron Fist
- 1983 - Another Perfect Day
- 1986 - ORGASMATRON.
- 1987 - Rock 'N' Roll
- 1991 - 1916.
- 1992 - March ÖR Die
- 1993 - Bastards.
- 1995 - Sacrifice.
- 1996 - Overnight Sensation
- 1998 - Snake Bite Love
- 2000 - WE ARE MOTÖRHEAD
- 2002 - Hammered
- 2004 - Inferno.
- 2006 - Kiss of Death
- 2008 - Motörizer.
- 2010 - The Wörld Is Yours
- 2013 - aftershock
- 2015 - Bad Magic