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Lemmy - The Definitive Biography (Paperback)
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Lemmy - The Definitive Biography (Paperback)
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'Unflinching, forthright and full of wry humour as the man himself,
and there's little praise greater than that' CLASSIC ROCK 'Wall's
vision of Lemmy as a Rock'n'Roll stalwart who made no concessions
is vivid to the last' GUARDIAN In 'The Ace of Spades', Motoerhead's
most famous song, Lemmy, the born-to-lose, live-to-win frontman of
the band sang, 'I don't want to live forever'. Yet as he told his
friend of 35 years, former PR and biographer Mick Wall, 'Actually,
I want to go the day before forever. To avoid the rush...'. This is
his strange but true story. Brutally frank, painfully funny,
wincingly sad, and always beautifully told, LEMMY: THE DEFINITIVE
BIOGRAPHY is the story of the only rock'n'roller never to sell his
soul for silver and gold, while keeping the devil, as he put it,
'very close to my side'. From school days growing up in North
Wales, to first finding fame in the mid-60s with the Rockin'
Vicars; from being Jimi Hendrix's personal roadie ('I would score
acid for him'), to leading Hawkwind to the top of the charts in
1972 with 'Silver Machine' ('I was fired for taking the wrong
drugs'); from forming Motoerhead ('I wanted to call the band
Bastard but my manager wouldn't let me'), whose iconoclastic album
NO SLEEP 'TIL HAMMERSMITH entered the UK charts at No. 1. Based on
Mick's original interviews with Lemmy conducted over numerous
years, along with the insights of those who knew him best - former
band mates, friends, managers, fellow artists and record business
insiders - this is an unputdownable story of one of Britain's
greatest characters. As Lemmy once said of Wall, 'Mick Wall is one
of the few rock writers in the world who can actually write and
seems to know anything about rock music. I can and do talk to him
for hours - poor bastard.' With the hard part of his journey now
over, Lemmy is set to become a legend. LEMMY: THE DEFINITIVE
BIOGRAPHY explains exactly how that came to be.
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