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Motörhead
Motörhead are indelibly associated with their charismatic larger-than-life
founder and front man Lemmy, one of British rock's biggest personalities. He
built his ferocious reputation on uncompromising attitude and a party lifestyle
that resulted in him becoming the personification of heavy metal (though he
disliked the term, preferring to describe his music as rock & roll). Lemmy was
fired from his previous band Hawkwind in 1975 and, adopting the title of the
last song he wrote for Hawkwind, he formed Motörhead to play raucous, rock &
roll. Initially this fell on stony ground wit...
