Where Worlds Collide » Lemmy

Eurovision in Heaven

Tim Hall — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 22:15:07 +0000

Now that Terry Wogan is up there, Heaven can hold a Eurovision Song Contest with Lemmy as the British entry. Something that should have happened when the two of them were still on Earth.

Iommium and Lemmium

Tim Hall — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 20:53:07 +0000

Now they’ve discovered four new elements and filled the seventh row of the Periodic Table, two of them ought to be called Iommium and Lemmium. Because they are all both heavy and metal.

Lemmy and the Music Press

Tim Hall — Wed, 30 Dec 2015 19:59:27 +0000

It’s galling to see Lemmy being eulogised by publications that would never have given MotÃ¶rhead the time of day during their prime. The irony is that Lemmy always represented everything they kept telling us rock’n'roll was supposed to be about.

RIP Lemmy

Tim Hall — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 15:40:26 +0000

Lemmy has left us, just days after his 70^th birthday.

He was an outlaw figure whose raw and dirty rock’n'roll occasionally irrupted into the safe world of top 40 pop and scared the life out of Top of the Pops presenters. But by the end he’d become a national treasure, revered even by those who hated his music during his prime.

There was nobody else quite like him.

Although ill-health meant he was a diminished figure on stage in his final years, he could still cut it in the studio right up to the end, as the barnstorming final MotÃ¶rhead album “Bad Magic” was to prove.

Though he was best known for MotÃ¶rhead, his stint with Hawkwind in the 1970s shouldn’t be forgotten. He sang lead on their big hit “Silver Machine”, of course, as well as writing “Motorhead”, “Lost Johnny” and “The Watcher”, which he would later re-record with MotÃ¶rhead. But it was his distinctive and unique bass playing where he really made his mark. Listen to “Lord of Light” from the definitive live album “Space Ritual” for example; when Hawkwind toured five years ago it took two bass players to do that song justice live. Or the combination of his bass riff and Simon House’ Mellotron opening “Assault and Battery” on his last album with the band, “Warrior at the Edge of Time”.

Lemmy was the embodiment of the spirit of rock’n'roll. If he was an In Nomine character, he would have been word-bound, and there are no prizes for guessing the word. He didn’t just play rock’n'roll, he lived it.