Lemmy Kilmister, the bigger than life frontman of Motörhead was rock ‘n’ roll personified. The long-lasting musician lived a life filled with debauchery, and aided by his tipple of alternative, Jack Daniel’s whiskey, he ascended to heights that had been largely unknown for folks from the world of his humble beginnings, Staffordshire, England.
It’s a testomony to his work that Dave Grohl of Nirvana and Foo Fighters proclaimed: “Fuck Elvis and Keith Richards, Lemmy’s the king of rock ‘n’ roll. Nobody else comes shut”.
Kilmister was a pioneer that helped unfold the phrase of onerous rock to the plenty, unfailingly exuding charisma alongside the way in which, firming his place within the annals of historical past as way more than only a rockstar. His followers are so diehard that you possibly can nearly argue that he led what is understood in political circles as a cult of persona. He was a cult chief, rock prophet and demi-God who achieved legendary feats that appear out of attain to strange laypeople akin to myself.
It has now been seven years since Kilmister departed this mortal realm, and the void left by the Motörhead chief solely appears to broaden with every lap across the solar. Many tales emerged in regards to the rock titan within the wake of his demise, showcasing him to be what we all the time knew, a bloody good bloke who retained an authenticity that different rockstars needs to be jealous of.
This authenticity gave him a pointy notion. Added to this, his roots in Stoke meant that he wasn’t afraid of voicing his opinion, and through the years, he gave some sensible scorching takes. One of the infamous he directed on the former Velvet Underground frontman, Lou Reed, who he thought had blood on his fingers for the glorification of heroin. The previous Hawkwind man felt that Reed was a a lot worse function mannequin than he was due to his deification of the drug.
“Yeah,” Lemmy as soon as declared, “however not less than I didn’t do a Lou Reed on the children. What number of children died due to [Velvet Underground hit] ‘Heroin’? It makes you into an evil individual, heroin. It makes you into the type of one who’ll purposely infect a child simply in order that they have somebody to shoot up with. It’s a monstrous drug, the worst drug ever! I don’t bear in mind anybody dying on the rest, simply heroin and downers. I by no means noticed anybody die of a coronary heart assault from velocity, and I by no means noticed anybody die from cocaine since you couldn’t afford it!”
This wasn’t the one barb he handed out through the years, and one in every of his finest got here all the way in which again in 1991 in an interview earlier than a Motörhead present. Discussing the topic of cash, what it means and what it does to folks, Lemmy laid his ideas naked while additionally digging out the puffy tangerine that may at some point go on to turn out to be the President of america, Donald J. Trump.
Lemmy mentioned: “I maintain studying about folks like Donald Trump, ? And he’s acquired a lot cash, proper, and you may’t get a smile out of the man with a crowbar. I do know lots of millionaires, ‘coz there’s lots of millionaires in rock ‘n’ roll, and the more cash they’ve acquired, the extra depressing they’re. I don’t see the purpose. ‘Coz they neglect about being glad, they only take into consideration cash, and that’s all they acquired. And that’s a tragic factor to have, a pile of cash and nothing else. What you gonna do? eat it? sleep with it?”
Watch Lemmy give his ideas on Donald Trump and cash beneath.
