For many music fans, Lemmy Kilmister was the epitome of the hard living, hard drinking rock monster. His band, Motörhead, defy easy categorisation – too fast for hard rock, too slow for thrash, not shrill enough for metal. Yet few have hammered home their message with more force than the trio whose motto was “everything louder than everyone else”. He may have made something unique out of them, but Lemmy’s roots were placed squarely in the Big Beat.
As the iconic bassist explains in his autobiography White Line Fever, he was right there in the delivery room for the birth of rock’n’roll. In fact, Lemmy was actually there before the conception and remembers the pre-rockin’ days of Frank Sinatra and Rosemary Clooney.