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15 unusual facts about Motörhead


A Bunch of Stiff Records

Three of the tracks, Wreckless Eric's "(I'd Go The) Whole Wide World", Motörhead's "White Line Fever" and Elvis Costello's "Less Than Zero", had been issued as singles (BUY 16, BUY 9 & BUY 11 respectively).

Benllech

Lemmy Kilmister, born Ian Fraser Kilmister, lead singer, bassist and guitarist of the band Motörhead, lived here from the age of 10 to the age of 16 (1956–1962).

Curtis Knight

Among the musicians enlisted was "Fast" Eddie Clarke who went on to fame as part of the line up which made Motörhead famous on such records as "Bomber" and "Ace of Spades" during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Earth Rocker

Drummer J.P. Gaster revealed that this ferocity may be attributed to Clutch's recent touring experience with Motörhead and Thin Lizzy.

ECRATER

Some eCRATER's selling facts: A CD by the rock group Motörhead was the first product sold, for $10.99.

Fedor Jeftichew

The heavy metal band Motörhead has a song called "Dog-Face Boy" on the 1995 album Sacrifice''.

Hits Greatest Stiffs

The other sides of the Motörhead and Elvis Costello track had appeared on the previous compilation album, A Bunch of Stiff Records.

Join the Army

Mike Muir used vastly different vocal techniques and range compared to their debut album (sometimes sounding similar to Lemmy from Motörhead).

Kempehallen

Kempehallen hosted the 2004 Sledge Hockey World Championships, and some notable music acts include Motörhead and Europe.

Lisebergshallen

The venue has hosted concerts for rock bands like Metallica, Slayer, Alice Cooper, Europe (band), Joe Bonamassa, Manowar, Jethro Tull, In Flames, Hammerfall, Kent, Motörhead, Nightwish, Helloween, Hardcore Superstar and Bullet for My Valentine.

Mick Farren

He collaborated with Lemmy, co-writing "Lost Johnny" for Hawkwind, and "Keep Us on the Road" and "Damage Case" for Motörhead.

Newcastle City Hall

In 1981, Motörhead recorded the majority of the tracks for their live album, No Sleep 'til Hammersmith, at the city hall.

The Best of Motörhead

Best of Motörhead is a 2002 compilation DVD featuring the British heavy metal band Motörhead, filmed while they were under contract to Bronze Records in 1980 to 1984.

The Very Best of Motörhead

The Very Best of Motörhead is a 1-disc compilation album released on May 21, 2002 by the British metal band Motörhead on the Sanctuary Records subsidiary Metal-Is label.

Tsonko Tsonev

During his time as a mayor, Tsonev has not only brought bands like Heaven and Hell, Manowar, Deep Purple and Motörhead to the small Bulgarian resort town, but he has also radically reduced unemployment and has taken an active part in the development of the region's culture and infrastructure.


A II Z

Immediately signed by major label Polydor, the group, whose style bore resemblances to Motörhead, Sweet Savage and Weapon, recorded their 1980 debut album named The Witch of Berkeley, live at a hometown gig (actually the hall of Hazel Grove High School), then were sent out on the road in support of Girlschool and Black Sabbath.

All the Aces

It includes 14 of their more popular songs, 2 enhanced multimedia sections and 8 previously unreleased live songs by The Muggers ("Fast" Eddie Clarke and Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor of Motörhead with John "Speedy" Keen and Billy Rath).

Arkansas City, Kansas

Euclid James Sherwood, commonly known as Motorhead Sherwood, vocalist and saxophonist for The Mothers of Invention during the band's early years

Calling the Wild

Motörhead singer Lemmy contributed two songs that were independently produced in Los Angeles and so did former The Sisters of Mercy guitarist Andreas Bruhn in Germany.

Dave Reffett

Some of his favorite artists include Kiss, Megadeth, Pantera, Van Halen, Motorhead, Metallica, David Allan Coe, Willie Nelson, Hank Williams Jr, Anthrax, Ronnie James Dio, Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne.

Denim and Leather

This was the last album with the classic line up of Saxon, as drummer Pete Gill would leave the band due to a hand injury, later joining Motörhead; this was also seen as the last of their triptych of classic albums (the previous two being Wheels of Steel and Strong Arm of the Law).

Friday Rock Show

Rock icons such as Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses; Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead; Ian Gillan of Deep Purple and many others no longer had any faith in the programme that had championed them and their music for so long.

In-Quest

In-Quest have played at a number of festivals in Belgium and the Netherlands, such as Frostrock, Euroblast, Xmass Festival, Flanders Fields of Death, Arnhem Metal Meeting, and (alongside bands like Slipknot, Fear Factory, Nile, Motörhead, Saxon, and Ensiferum) Graspop Metal Meeting in 2005 (Metal Dome), 2006 (Marquee 1) and 2009 (at Mainstage).

Jerry L. Greenberg

During his tenure as President of several major labels, Jerry has signed such acts as ABBA, The Blues Brothers, Foreigner, Genesis, TS Monk, Whitesnake, Chic, Nile Rodgers, Dr. Dre & Eazy E (Production Deal), Motörhead, Brownstone and 3T.

Juliette and the Licks

At the same event, Lewis and Moa Holmsten from Meldrum came on stage for one of Motörhead's songs to do backing vocals.

Kings of Speed

Motörhead released their version of "Motorhead" in 1977 as a single and on their debut Motörhead album, and a live version in 1981 as a single (reaching number 6 in the UK charts) and on the No Sleep 'til Hammersmith album.

Larry Wallis

While still a member of the Pink Fairies, in May 1975 Wallis joined a new band called Motörhead with Lemmy and Lucas Fox.

In September 1975 Fox left the band and Motörhead recruited a new drummer, Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor.

Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards

The band was then put together as an outlet to release these songs, as well as covers of Billy Bragg's "To Have and to Have Not", Holland-Dozier-Holland's "Leaving Here" (which was also covered by Motörhead).

Leas Cliff Hall

Over the years the hall has played host to some of the best music acts around such as The Rolling Stones, T Rex, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest, Paul Weller, Ozzy Osbourne, Status Quo, Motörhead, Kings of Leon, Stereophonics, Queens of the Stone Age and Kaiser Chiefs.

Mama, I'm Coming Home

The song was co-written by Zakk Wylde, Osborne's longtime guitarist, frontman and lead guitarist for heavy metal group Black Label Society, and Lemmy Kilmister, frontman of the heavy metal group Motörhead.

Orgasmatron

It is the only full Motörhead album to feature Pete Gill on the drums, although he also played on the four new tracks recorded for the 1984 No Remorse compilation album.

Shane Bugbee

The second installment of "The Expo Of The Extreme" in 1999, was to include Dana Plato as the hostess of an event highlighting Motörhead and Fang, but she died just weeks before the event from an alleged prescription drug suicide.

Sharon Osbourne Management

Though mostly music acts, it has guided the careers of husband Ozzy Osbourne, children Kelly Osbourne and Jack Osbourne, as well as The Smashing Pumpkins, Coal Chamber, Queen, Gary Moore, Motörhead, Lita Ford, and ELO.

The Hookers

The Hookers have described their own sound as combining the “thunder of Blue Cheer, the speed of Motörhead and the teachings of Anton Lavey” (sic).

The Varukers

Bands such as The Varukers, Discharge, Chaos UK, Amebix, and Charged GBH took the existing 1977-era punk sound and melded it with the incessant, heavy drumbeats and "wall of sound" distortion guitar sound of New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) bands such as Motörhead.

Ultimate Motorhead Show

The Ultimate Motorhead Show is an annual three-day car show held in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.

What's Words Worth?

The Count Bishops and Motörhead were also on the bill, but for contractual reasons Motörhead needed to perform under another name.

Whitfield Crane

Over the years, Crane has performed guest vocals on several songs, including Reaching Out by Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray (from the Lynn Strait tribute album Strait Up), Born to Raise Hell by Motörhead (also featuring rapper Ice-T) and Voodoo Brother by Glenn Tipton of Judas Priest.