Minggu, 23 Januari 2011

FILM OF THE WEEK: Lemmy

by Steve Dollar


Lemmy



What a piece of work is Lemmy. Keith Richards gets all the credit for being the rugged Jack Sparrow of rock'n'roll, but he's not the only pirate sailing under a black flag. And he doesn't even play for a band with an umlaut in its name.



LemmyAnd you might argue that Ian Fraser Kilmister, born on the first Christmas Eve after the end of World War II, makes a far sturdier badass icon. Better known as Lemmy to the gazillion fans of Motörhead, the bruisingly influential English metal band of which he is the only abiding member, the author of such live-fast-die-ugly anthems as 'Eat the Rich,' 'Killed by Death' and the immortal 'Ace of Spades,' seems as indestructible as the Terminator. To paraphrase one of his enthusiastically besotted fans, interviewed outside a concert in the documentary Lemmy: 49% Motherfucker, 51% Son of a Bitch: 'If they ever drop a nuclear bomb on this world, the only thing left behind will be Lemmy and cockroaches.'

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