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"I love the sleazy, lustful side of Motorhead." Severed heads, strip clubs and baptism by whisky: Why the metal world loved Lemmy Kilmister, the ultimate rock'n'roll rebel

We asked some of metal's biggest names to share which Motorhead songs mean most to them

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"It wouldn’t be my first choice of nickname now": Gluecifer's Captain Poon on touring with Lemmy, fun with chickens and the origins of that stage name

Having said new music was unlikely, Norwegian rockers Gluecifer are back with their first album in two decades

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"The fans want to hear it, so we still play it every night. For myself, I've had enough of that song." Recorded while intoxicated, lyrics written in the back of a van - the story of one of the all-time heavy rock classics

It’s one of the instantly recognisable songs in rock'n'roll. But how did Ace Of Spades come about?

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"Playing a full set of Motörhead songs with Phil Campbell stood next to me is a bit nerve-racking": With a new deal and friends in the right places, Fury are ready to move up a level

It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock'n'roll, but Fury's Interceptor album should push them in the right direction

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From Dylan to disco, Beyoncé to Bob Marley: the 30 best live albums ever – ranked!

Peter Frampton’s Frampton Comes Alive!, one of the bestselling live albums of all time, is turning 50. You won’t find that on this list, however: instead there’s metal, soul, and an ‘indecently exciting’ No 1 …

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“I lost a lot of hair when Lemmy blasted his bass. You’d see big bikers at the front of the house throwing up”: Watch Motörhead drummer react to fans’ stories about the heavy metal trailblazers

Mikkey Dee remembers life with Lemmy Kilmister while watching tributes from Motörhead super-fans

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"The first time I heard his voice it was like, ‘Does this guy smoke 40 cigarettes at once?!’" Metallica, Judas Priest, Halestorm, Body Count members and more pick the ultimate Motorhead playlist

We asked some of metal's biggest names to share which Motorhead songs mean most to them

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"He became a father figure to me at a time when I might have ended up in the morgue": Lemmy's personal assistant looks back at six years on the road with the Motörhead legend

Dan Hawcroft spent 24 hours a day with Lemmy and Motöhead for 11 months of each year – and he's got the scars to prove it

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"Yelling, fighting, drugs, alcohol… everything always went on. At the very end, he took me to his house and gave me a sword." Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister, by those who knew him best

On what would've been his 80th birthday, we remember rock'n'roll icon and Motorhead legend Lemmy Kilmister

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“I opened my guitar case and nearly fainted – I thought there was a human hand in there”: Motörhead and Girlschool were leading the charge for British heavy metal in the ’80s – guitarist Kim McAuliffe reveals what touring with Lemmy was really like

The two bands released a joint EP, St. Valentine's Day Massacre, which also made an impact on the UK charts

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“I opened my guitar case and nearly fainted because I thought there was a human hand in there. It turned out, it was half a pig’s head”: Girlschool look back on their wild life with Mötorhead

Singer/guitarist Kim McAuliffe reflects on recording the vaunted St Valentine’s Day Massacre EP and what it was like touring with rock’n’roll’s craziest band

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Sleep Token have released the official colouring book you never knew you needed

The masked metal band have teamed up with Rock N’ Roll Colouring, who’ve previously made colouring books for Iron Maiden, Motörhead, Cannibal Corpse and others

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"When I moved to Birmingham I assumed every band was going to sound like Black Sabbath": Meet Margarita Witch Cult, the big-riffing Brummies keeping Sabbath’s traditions alive

Built on a Sabbath template with lashings of Motörhead and Alice Cooper, Margarita Witch Cult also admit to being influenced by Desmond Child

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"When the doctor was at the house and told us, I cried right there. I couldn’t help it. And he was the one who consoled me!" Lemmy's nearest and dearest on how the Motörhead man faced death "like a champ"

You might not be surprised to find that Lemmy faced his own mortality with the kind of no-nonsense attitude that defined his life

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Sweden's melodic death metal rising stars get their own cover variant in this exclusive bundle

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"Lemmy goes and sees his doctor, and the doctor is like, ‘Holy ****! If you’d waited another week, you’d have died!'" How Motörhead legend Lemmy Kilmister shrugged off his health issues for years

Some of Lemmy's closest allies share warm stories of the typically bullish way Lemmy would deal with any health problems

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"I'll break both yer arms": Memories of life with Lemmy as a friend and neighbour

Classic Rock writer, former Zigzag editor and Motörhead biographer Kris Needs was also Lemmy’s neighbour in London’s Notting Hill

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Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister once rammed a cheeseburger into a $2,000,000 mixing desk because he lost an argument

“Can we get a repair man? Lemmy from Motörhead’s just trashed our desk with a cheeseburger.”

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"We wanted Wayne Kramer from The MC5 to be our guitarist": Founding Motörhead drummer Lucas Fox looks back on the band's earliest days

Lucas Fox looked after Lemmy when he was fired by Hawkwind - they bonded over Monty Python, speed and Special Brew

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We asked Metallica’s Kirk Hammett to name the best Motörhead song and this is what he told us

“Lemmy opens up his voice and starts singing, my mind exploded!”

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"That song had a primal power, like it was about to come off the rails": The story of the speed-freak anthem that was the most important song Lemmy ever wrote

A song written by the young Lemmy for Hawkwind has been through various twists - from Motörhead's own anthemic version to the unlikeliest remakes

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"Sabbath will not do it, they won't take a chance": How Ozzy Osbourne predicted the future and saved Motörhead's Heavy Metal Holocaust

When Motörhead supported Ozzy Osbourne on his first American arena tour, it was the start of a beautiful friendship

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“To me, we were like a Motörhead-type hard rock band, so any kind of ballads were sort of uncongressed”: Sweet Child O’ Mine is Guns N' Roses' most iconic song, but Slash originally wasn't a fan

The guitar slinger has previously dismissed claims that the iconic riff was crafted as a warm-up exercise

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The story of every metal album to hit number one in the UK

From Iron Maiden to Sleep Token, here's every single time metal topped the album charts in the UK

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“Although I won’t be performing again, I’ve already got an idea for a new album”: 11 things we learned from Ozzy Osbourne’s new memoir, Last Rites

From an unfinished solo album to drinking with André The Giant, these are the most surprising things we read in Ozzy’s posthumous book

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