From his beginnings as a guitarist and roadie, through his initial experience playing bass guitar in Hawkwind, to the leading figure in British heavy rock outfit Motörhead, the much-missed Ian ‘Lemmy’ ...

“I'm made for bass – I'm supposed to play bass, that's what I'm supposed to do,” said lan ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister, who departed for the great gig in the sky in December 2015. Born the son of a clergyman in ...

Lemmy, less interested in genre distinctions, would insist that Motorhead was just a rock and roll band, saying so from the stage at every show. But this simplistic musicology undersells Motorhead’s ...