That's the way I like it baby, I don't want to live forever. RIP Lemmy.

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ZoDiAC_: Jun 23, 2003

If you like to gamble, I tell you I'm your man,
You win some, lose some, all the same to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI9gTHdCZ9U

Let us remember Lemmy.

He beat the devil enough times. He only died to show us what's worth living for.

Rock out tonight for Lemmy.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/29/lemmy-obituary-alexis-petridis-motorhead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9fZRcqZWoE

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Like his previous employers Hawkwind, Mot�rhead were a product of the crumbling squat scene around London�s Ladbroke Grove, but their music spoke of a different era. Hawkwind�s music was heavy, but they still had a distinct whiff of acid-fuelled late 60s idealism about them. After his departure from the band, Lemmy clearly realised that times had changed, that what remained of the flower power dream had irrevocably curdled, that it was time to dispense with the LSD-inspired imagery, the penchant for cosmic-journey improvisation and the last vestiges of countercultural utopianism: his new band initially intended to ply their trade under the name Bastard. You can hear him casting about for a musical direction on their debut album On Parole � recorded in 1975 but not released until their former record label attempted to cash in on their early 80s fame � trying out a variety of back-to-basics styles, including tough pub rock and stuff that, if you didn�t know it was Mot�rhead, you might take for a lost 1977 punk band. The sound that stuck was a track on their eponymous theme song, previously a Hawkwind B-side. Hard, fast and brutally effective, it was shot through with both a dry wit � the experience of taking amphetamine is �going up like prices at Christmas� � and grim realism, enthusiastically advocating drugs not as a tool to expand your mind, but as �mental anaesthesia�. Initially greeted with such diffidence and bafflement that Mot�rhead considered splitting up, it proved both timely and prescient, as powerful a reflection of mid-70s Britain as Anarchy in the UK or White Riot.

The most revered Mot�rhead lineup � Lemmy, Phil �Philthy Animal� Taylor and �Fast� Eddie Clarke � honed the sound over their next four albums. They reached a kind of perfection on 1980�s Ace of Spades and the following year�s astonishing live album No Sleep �Til Hammersmith. It was to prove both a hugely influential pinnacle and a problem. Like the Ramones, Mot�rhead successfully tapped into something primal and fundamental: their sound was undeniably potent, but it somehow resisted development. That didn�t stop Lemmy trying � over the decades, Mot�rhead variously released ballads, acoustic tracks and made a doomed attempt to commercialise their sound on 1992�s March or Die. But as the years went on, his interviews were marked with an increasing bitterness about audiences� predilection for the old stuff, about the fact that, despite the fact that Mot�rhead�s latter-day catalogue was peppered with fantastic songs � anyone wondering whether the passing of time and a variety of line-up changes had dimmed the band�s power is directed to Walk a Crooked Mile, the opening track of 2002�s Hammered � he had increasingly become far more famous than the music he made: people seemed more interested in reading his interviews, always a reliable source of gruff wisdom, riotously entertaining anecdotes and eye-popping details of his bottle-of-bourbon-a day-diet, than buying his records: �Since everyone thought [Ace of Spades] was so great, how come they didn�t buy our later albums? That�s what puzzles me, because it doesn�t work like that for everybody else � I�m sure we�re going to be like Van Gogh, who couldn�t sell a painting while he was alive.�

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ZoDiAC_: Jun 23, 2003

BEHOLD THE KING!
THE KING OF KINGS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH2mf_DFxeM

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ZoDiAC_: Jun 23, 2003

Motorhead is over but it might be the right call. They will leave a legacy now.

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ZoDiAC_: Jun 23, 2003

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ZoDiAC_: Jun 23, 2003

Lemmy: Fans call for periodic table element to be named after Mot�rhead frontman

It's a heavy metal, obviously! Support the loving petition!

https://www.change.org/p/support-lemmy-tribute-name-newly-discovered-heavy-metal-lemmium

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A petition has been launched to name an element in the periodic table �Lemmium� in honour of Lemmy, the Mot�rhead frontman who died last week.

Specifically, �Lemmium� would be the chemical name for one of the four new heavy metal elements which were discovered recently.

Lemmy, whose real name is Ian Fraser Kilmister, died on December 28 aged 70, two days after he was diagnosed with cancer.

The petition on change.org has so far amassed over 13,000 signatures, the page pays tribute to Lemmy as �a force of nature and the very essence of heavy metal�.

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