Lemmy: The Movie

0:00:05 > 0:00:09This programme contains very strong language.

0:00:09 > 0:00:11RUMBLING

0:00:13 > 0:00:16'The door is under attack. They're everywhere.'

0:00:16 > 0:00:20INDISTINCT COMPUTER GAME DIALOGUE

0:00:20 > 0:00:21Damn!

0:00:24 > 0:00:28SHOOTING AND EXPLOSIONS

0:00:32 > 0:00:33EXPLOSIONS

0:00:37 > 0:00:39GAME SOUND EFFECTS CONTINUE

0:00:56 > 0:00:59- RADIO:- 'Loveline is meant for an adult audience.

0:00:59 > 0:01:03'Loveline may contain sexually oriented content.

0:01:03 > 0:01:05'Listener discretion is advised.'

0:01:05 > 0:01:08- 'It starts now.' - 'And it is Loveline.

0:01:08 > 0:01:12'That number is 1-800-LOVE-191.

0:01:12 > 0:01:15'Very exciting evening today. Why don't you introduce our guest?'

0:01:15 > 0:01:17'Oh, I don't know.

0:01:17 > 0:01:20'A little guy who started off his career in space rock band Hawkwind

0:01:20 > 0:01:23'many years ago. But you probably know him best for

0:01:23 > 0:01:27'the close to 35 years as the only static member of a band called Motorhead.'

0:01:27 > 0:01:32The image of him holding that Rickenbacker bass is enough to put shivers up my spine.

0:01:32 > 0:01:36I am, of course, talking about the man sitting right next to me, musical icon, Lemmy.

0:01:36 > 0:01:38You romantic fool!

0:01:38 > 0:01:40HEAVY GUITAR RIFF

0:01:46 > 0:01:49The man is the modern Jesus.

0:01:49 > 0:01:52To be honest, he is fucking Jesus Christ.

0:01:52 > 0:01:54Motorhead is my life.

0:01:54 > 0:01:57Without Lemmy, there would be no Metallica, no Megadeth, no Slayer.

0:01:57 > 0:02:00There wouldn't be any of today's heavy metal.

0:02:00 > 0:02:02Rock'n'roll IS Lemmy, Lemmy IS rock'n'roll.

0:02:02 > 0:02:04Rock'n'roll!

0:02:04 > 0:02:06# Hey, baby, don't act so scared

0:02:06 > 0:02:08# All I want is your special care. #

0:02:08 > 0:02:12If I hear Motorhead, I will bang for the whole time.

0:02:15 > 0:02:16Lemmy is God.

0:02:16 > 0:02:19If they drop a nuclear bomb on this planet,

0:02:19 > 0:02:23Lemmy and cockroaches is all that is going to survive.

0:02:23 > 0:02:26# Move over for a damaged case. #

0:02:32 > 0:02:35# Hey, babe, wait a minute stop. #

0:02:37 > 0:02:41Everybody, it's Loveline. Lemmy from Motorhead in the house.

0:02:41 > 0:02:43- Mike Catherwood, paying homage. - You know it.

0:02:43 > 0:02:48The current CD is called Motoriser, the 24th CD from Motorhead.

0:02:48 > 0:02:50- Amazing.- Yes, it amazed me all right.

0:02:50 > 0:02:5535 years ago, when you were getting the band started, did you think you would be 25 albums in?

0:02:55 > 0:02:57You don't think like that. You think, two years.

0:02:57 > 0:03:01You just want to play with a couple of guys, that is all it is.

0:03:01 > 0:03:04- And then it goes on, and on.- And on!

0:03:04 > 0:03:10- Is it true that over 2,000 women you've bedded?- No, the magazine printed that. I said a thousand.

0:03:10 > 0:03:15- Yeah. That's still pretty impressive. - Not really, I've never been married and I'm 63.

0:03:15 > 0:03:17Work it out, it's not many a year.

0:03:17 > 0:03:19- Wow.- I like how he thinks.

0:03:19 > 0:03:22Let's go to calls. Jason is calling from Canada.

0:03:22 > 0:03:26'Lemmy, it is an honour to be talking to you. A true legend.

0:03:26 > 0:03:28'Two quick questions for you.

0:03:28 > 0:03:32'Basically, I would like to know what are your musical influences today?

0:03:32 > 0:03:35'And your favourite place to play a gig.'

0:03:35 > 0:03:38I don't really mind where we play, as long as they go "Hooray".

0:03:38 > 0:03:43- 'I think it's cool you're still rocking today. Keep up the good work.'- I will.

0:03:43 > 0:03:47Don't forget, I'm not qualified to do anything else!

0:03:47 > 0:03:51- 'The other question was, what are your musical...'- Influences, yes.

0:03:51 > 0:03:52He anticipates that one!

0:03:52 > 0:03:56Your influences are the same when you're my age as when you were 20.

0:03:56 > 0:04:00The first things you hear that really knock you out stick with you.

0:04:00 > 0:04:03You're never going to hear any music better than that.

0:04:03 > 0:04:06So it was Little Richard, the Beatles, Elvis, you know.

0:04:06 > 0:04:08I like good old stuff, you know.

0:04:08 > 0:04:10Where were you when you heard that stuff?

0:04:10 > 0:04:13The first time I saw the Beatles, they hadn't made a record yet.

0:04:13 > 0:04:17- You saw them?- Yes, at the Cavern in Liverpool.- What was that like?

0:04:17 > 0:04:19It was magic. They WERE magic, you know.

0:04:19 > 0:04:25- Did you think, "This is going to be the greatest rock band of all time"? - Yes. Kind of, I did.

0:04:25 > 0:04:28We used to get these girls would come down...

0:04:28 > 0:04:31I lived in a holiday resort place in North Wales.

0:04:31 > 0:04:33These girls from Liverpool would come down.

0:04:33 > 0:04:37And every year, there was this singer called Billy Fury, they were crazy about him.

0:04:37 > 0:04:40And then one year, it had all changed.

0:04:40 > 0:04:41It was this Beatles thing, you know.

0:04:41 > 0:04:45So we would hitch-hike up to Liverpool, see what they were like.

0:04:45 > 0:04:47They were monstrous, like, perfect, you know.

0:04:47 > 0:04:52People think the Stones were the hard men and the Beatles the sissies, and it's the opposite.

0:04:52 > 0:04:56The Beatles were from Liverpool and the Stones were from the London suburbs, you know.

0:04:56 > 0:05:00Going to art school and shit. It wasn't that way at all.

0:05:00 > 0:05:03The Beatles, I always thought, were the best band in the world.

0:05:08 > 0:05:10- No, we don't. - I knew you were going to say that!

0:05:13 > 0:05:15SHOP TANNOY ANNOUNCEMENT

0:05:22 > 0:05:24MUSIC ON TANNOY

0:05:27 > 0:05:29TANNOY: 'Landor, call on line one.'

0:05:29 > 0:05:31'Landor, line one is for you.'

0:05:40 > 0:05:42The owner gave you hers.

0:05:42 > 0:05:45Want to go over?

0:05:50 > 0:05:55- 44.67. We don't take American Express.- Oh, you don't? Take Visa?

0:05:55 > 0:05:56Yes.

0:05:58 > 0:06:01- Where's the lady who gave me her copy?- I'll bring her over.

0:06:05 > 0:06:09I was like, all right, I've got to give it to him, in the name of rock and roll.

0:06:09 > 0:06:11And it sounds great. I think you'll really like it.

0:06:13 > 0:06:14Yes, the original...

0:06:16 > 0:06:19A couple of them are like, I mean... Sgt Pepper sounds amazing.

0:06:19 > 0:06:22- I think you'll really like it. - Thanks very much.

0:06:27 > 0:06:28# Dance

0:06:28 > 0:06:29# Girl you gotta move your feet

0:06:32 > 0:06:33# Dance don't stop

0:06:33 > 0:06:34# Dance till you drop

0:06:34 > 0:06:36# Dance to the American beat. #

0:06:37 > 0:06:41The Sunset Strip has seen a whole lot of different movements and genres

0:06:41 > 0:06:44and musical versions of the same thing, basically.

0:06:44 > 0:06:48We had a bunch of different musical movements and, first of all,

0:06:48 > 0:06:51Motorhead is one of those bands that transcends movements.

0:06:51 > 0:06:56It doesn't matter what's happening in the community, in the rock culture,

0:06:56 > 0:07:00Motorhead is still hailed as being, like, king.

0:07:00 > 0:07:05When he moved to LA, became part of the scene, he was already embraced.

0:07:05 > 0:07:07Basically, his throne was waiting for him.

0:07:07 > 0:07:10Two cameras, A mark.

0:07:12 > 0:07:13And mark.

0:07:13 > 0:07:15Action.

0:07:15 > 0:07:18Lem, there's somebody I want you to meet. Hank, the writer.

0:07:18 > 0:07:22Obviously, he's not from LA, but it is really interesting to see

0:07:22 > 0:07:25how much of a staple Lemmy has become, especially in Hollywood.

0:07:25 > 0:07:28He has become a Los Angeles icon, you know.

0:07:28 > 0:07:31- Cut. - I don't know if he does fit in in LA.

0:07:31 > 0:07:33LA is so fucked up,

0:07:33 > 0:07:35he doesn't really fit.

0:07:35 > 0:07:37I think Hollywood has to fit him.

0:07:37 > 0:07:41All we have to do now is do that another 147 times and we're there.

0:07:41 > 0:07:43A lot of people are LA bashers.

0:07:43 > 0:07:47Especially people from up north in San Francisco, that kind of thing.

0:07:47 > 0:07:50That is LA, La-La Land, or whatever they call it.

0:07:50 > 0:07:54You know, it is just a land of pretentious people,

0:07:54 > 0:07:55all that kind of thing.

0:07:55 > 0:07:58There is a real weight to this town, there is a real history to it.

0:07:58 > 0:08:02I think it has got a lot more balls than a lot of big cities, frankly.

0:08:02 > 0:08:06'Lemmy looks like an LA rocker to me.

0:08:06 > 0:08:09'He has got that thing about him.

0:08:09 > 0:08:13'He is combination biker, musician,'

0:08:13 > 0:08:16or guy that works at the car wash.

0:08:16 > 0:08:19He's got that old school LA look.

0:08:19 > 0:08:21'He doesn't change it and I don't think'

0:08:21 > 0:08:23it was created.

0:08:23 > 0:08:26And that is what the good part of LA is, it is

0:08:26 > 0:08:27the people who don't try to be.

0:08:27 > 0:08:32I was in bands when I was a little kid. I came to California to do that.

0:08:32 > 0:08:36I got out here and this guy I knew wanted me to go for an acting part.

0:08:36 > 0:08:38I got that and the next thing you know,

0:08:38 > 0:08:41I was in some theatre group and I didn't know anything about it.

0:08:41 > 0:08:44I realised I was making a little bit of money doing this acting.

0:08:47 > 0:08:49I do, too.

0:08:55 > 0:08:58I doubt we'll get it in this day and time.

0:08:58 > 0:09:02I always figured, my music is very popular, I must be doing something wrong!

0:09:07 > 0:09:09Yes, me too. I grew up with that.

0:09:13 > 0:09:14Oh, it's great.

0:09:17 > 0:09:18Oh, I'm telling you.

0:09:21 > 0:09:22Oh, yeah.

0:09:30 > 0:09:33I worked with him one time on a TV show, he was there.

0:09:33 > 0:09:35And he pulls up in an old Cadillac

0:09:35 > 0:09:38and all of these guys get out in suits and everything.

0:09:40 > 0:09:42He met my son.

0:09:42 > 0:09:46My son at the time was only like three or four.

0:09:46 > 0:09:48Little Richard goes, "Hey, baby!"

0:09:48 > 0:09:53I go to my kid, I say, "Hey, Willie, it's OK to talk to this cat,

0:09:53 > 0:09:55"but don't sit on his lap."

0:09:56 > 0:09:57'Lemmy is like'

0:09:57 > 0:09:59a fucking radioactive cowboy.

0:09:59 > 0:10:02- A hard rock Johnny Cash.- A biker.

0:10:02 > 0:10:04World War Two chic.

0:10:04 > 0:10:07- He's Black Bart meets Mad Max. - He's Captain Hook.

0:10:07 > 0:10:09A little bit of cowboy, a little bit of metal.

0:10:09 > 0:10:11Little bit of rock'n'roll.

0:10:11 > 0:10:14He'd be the perfect description of my dream dude, for sure.

0:10:14 > 0:10:17Lemmy's look is something that is probably a little bit

0:10:17 > 0:10:19cultivated from back in the fifties.

0:10:19 > 0:10:21And then added to that,

0:10:21 > 0:10:22some of the shit that he picked up

0:10:22 > 0:10:26along the way... bikers, punk rock, whatever.

0:10:26 > 0:10:28Although he has been around for a long time,

0:10:28 > 0:10:31so maybe some of the punk stuff, they got it from him.

0:10:45 > 0:10:48Describing Lemmy's style is not that easy,

0:10:48 > 0:10:53because from boot to boot, it always changes substantially.

0:10:53 > 0:10:56# Let me tell you, babe

0:10:56 > 0:10:59# What I say is right... #

0:10:59 > 0:11:02He's got a very distinctive and good aesthetic sense.

0:11:02 > 0:11:05He actually will bring me drawings of what he wants.

0:11:05 > 0:11:08# You've got me crazy... #

0:11:08 > 0:11:11If I was to really give it a specific name,

0:11:11 > 0:11:14I would probably say it is like a Western jackboot.

0:11:14 > 0:11:17He likes these boots with a squared-off nose,

0:11:17 > 0:11:19almost military looking.

0:11:19 > 0:11:21Almost like a cavalry kind of boot

0:11:21 > 0:11:25with Motorhead flair to it, of course.

0:11:25 > 0:11:26# What I say is true... #

0:11:26 > 0:11:30We were at a rehearsal place in the Valleys back in the mid-nineties

0:11:30 > 0:11:33and Motorhead was right next to us, rehearsing for a tour.

0:11:33 > 0:11:37Every day, we would see Lemmy out at this video game in the lobby area.

0:11:37 > 0:11:39It was summertime, it was really hot in the Valley,

0:11:39 > 0:11:42and Lemmy was wearing shorts.

0:11:42 > 0:11:44Now if I tell you, he's wearing Daisy Dukes.

0:11:44 > 0:11:46It was like a thong, dude.

0:11:46 > 0:11:47You would walk out of our door

0:11:47 > 0:11:50and the first thing you would see when you walked out of our room

0:11:50 > 0:11:53was Lemmy bent over this machine.

0:11:53 > 0:11:57So it's basically Lemmy bending over with his ass in your face.

0:11:58 > 0:12:00That's a weird scene.

0:12:00 > 0:12:03And we're all wearing shorts, but our shorts are board shorts.

0:12:03 > 0:12:06Finally, you know, I got the balls to walk up to him.

0:12:06 > 0:12:09He's playing the game. I was like, "Hey, man."

0:12:09 > 0:12:11He's like, "Hey, Scott, how are you?"

0:12:11 > 0:12:14I'm like, "We've all been wondering." "What's that?"

0:12:14 > 0:12:19I said, "What's the deal with the shorts? Like, seriously?"

0:12:19 > 0:12:23And I'm thinking, I'm afraid is he going to punch me, what's going to happen?

0:12:23 > 0:12:25He's like, "What? What do you mean?"

0:12:25 > 0:12:28And I said, "They're really short.

0:12:28 > 0:12:31"We see your ass every day, it's kind of weird."

0:12:31 > 0:12:33He goes, "What? It's hot out. These are shorts."

0:12:33 > 0:12:36And he kind of steps back and looks at me and goes,

0:12:36 > 0:12:39"Those aren't shorts. Those are pants. These are shorts. I'm cool."

0:12:39 > 0:12:42And he kind of goes like this, like...

0:12:42 > 0:12:44Like it made absolute sense.

0:12:44 > 0:12:47# So bad baby I don't care. #

0:12:53 > 0:12:56What anyone thinks, what anyone cares, it doesn't matter.

0:12:56 > 0:12:59He's just Lemmy, you either take him or you fucking don't.

0:12:59 > 0:13:02He doesn't give a flying shit whether you do or not.

0:13:02 > 0:13:04There are no words.

0:13:04 > 0:13:07He's Lemmy. It's almost...

0:13:07 > 0:13:08It should be a verb.

0:13:11 > 0:13:13Nobody told him to do

0:13:13 > 0:13:16anything that he wasn't completely natural and comfortable doing.

0:13:16 > 0:13:17And that's rare.

0:13:17 > 0:13:21And that's why I think we respond with respect.

0:13:21 > 0:13:24Because we want to be like that.

0:13:24 > 0:13:25I think he is a renegade.

0:13:25 > 0:13:28There's not that many of them any more. Everybody assimilates.

0:13:28 > 0:13:34You know, go along to get along. To get what they need to get.

0:13:34 > 0:13:38And I don't see Lemmy as that kind of guy.

0:13:38 > 0:13:42I see Lemmy as doing things his way to get where he wants to go.

0:13:42 > 0:13:46And that's attractive, because people don't do that any more.

0:13:56 > 0:13:59# When you move in right up close to me

0:14:03 > 0:14:07# That's when I get the shakes all over me. #

0:14:10 > 0:14:16The thing I remember about Lemmy, which has nothing to do with music,

0:14:16 > 0:14:19is that he was obsessed, and I think he still is, with one-armed bandits.

0:14:19 > 0:14:22You know, the...

0:14:22 > 0:14:23And I can remember

0:14:23 > 0:14:28Dingwalls, the little club in London, very popular, by the canal.

0:14:28 > 0:14:31I think that's probably the first time I ever met him.

0:14:31 > 0:14:35You walked into Dingwalls and just inside was the one-armed bandit

0:14:35 > 0:14:38and, without fail, he would be on that.

0:14:38 > 0:14:40Sometimes all night.

0:14:40 > 0:14:43I don't know if he ever won, but he would play it for hours.

0:14:44 > 0:14:47I've never seen anybody love those things so much.

0:14:47 > 0:14:50They should bring out a Motorhead one-armed bandit.

0:14:50 > 0:14:53And if you get three Lemmies, you win the jackpot.

0:14:53 > 0:14:55# Shaking all over... #

0:15:05 > 0:15:10When it comes to rock'n'roll, you need something to believe in,

0:15:10 > 0:15:11you know?

0:15:11 > 0:15:14Integrity means everything.

0:15:14 > 0:15:17Musically, of course, when you go and see a band

0:15:17 > 0:15:20and you know it's coming from the heart, it touches you even more

0:15:20 > 0:15:22because there's some sort of human connection.

0:15:22 > 0:15:25If you go up and see some robots moving around the stage,

0:15:25 > 0:15:28you might as well go home and play video games.

0:15:28 > 0:15:35But when someone is doing... when someone's playing rock and roll from the heart

0:15:35 > 0:15:40and they really walk it like they talk it, you pay more attention,

0:15:40 > 0:15:44because it makes you feel like a human being, in a way.

0:15:44 > 0:15:51Like, to connect to someone doing something really honest or really true,

0:15:51 > 0:15:54it's important.

0:15:54 > 0:15:58And so, to me, more than any other rock musician...

0:15:58 > 0:16:01I consider Lemmy a legend, you know,

0:16:01 > 0:16:05but to me, more than any other rock musician,

0:16:05 > 0:16:09he is the baddest motherfucker in the world.

0:16:13 > 0:16:15HE PLAYS BASS DRUM

0:16:17 > 0:16:18DRUM RIFF STARTS

0:16:26 > 0:16:28You know what would be cool?

0:16:28 > 0:16:30If I could get one of those lyric sheets?

0:16:30 > 0:16:33When it gets to the instrumentals, there's two 12 bars in a row, OK?

0:16:35 > 0:16:37Let's just check the levels here

0:16:37 > 0:16:40with Lemmy, make sure he can hear himself.

0:16:40 > 0:16:42BASS GUITAR

0:16:42 > 0:16:43HE PLAYS A RIFF

0:16:43 > 0:16:46BASS DROWNS VOICES IN BACKGROUND

0:17:36 > 0:17:39That one little spot where it's on the double chorus...

0:17:39 > 0:17:43- Yeah, it's a double chorus, you know? Fuck!- For Christ's sake.

0:17:43 > 0:17:45What was Chuck Berry thinking?

0:17:45 > 0:17:48I remember a show in England that I did with Meat Loaf, where the whole show

0:17:48 > 0:17:53was held up because Chuck Berry thought he hadn't been paid when his agent had been paid,

0:17:53 > 0:17:56and wouldn't go on until he had a wad of money.

0:17:56 > 0:17:58He had been fucked so many times, you know?

0:17:58 > 0:18:00In the '50s, there were no rules at all.

0:18:00 > 0:18:04A guy could pull a gun and say, "I'm not paying you, what you going to do?"

0:18:04 > 0:18:07Even in the '60s and late '60s,

0:18:07 > 0:18:09Hendrix got burned fucking blind, you know.

0:18:09 > 0:18:12He never saw any of the money.

0:18:12 > 0:18:15I was outside LAX once, getting ready to get on a plane.

0:18:15 > 0:18:20And this young black guy comes up to me and says, "Hey, I read in an interview that the only person

0:18:20 > 0:18:23"you ever want to meet is Little Richard".

0:18:23 > 0:18:24And I'd always said that.

0:18:24 > 0:18:28I didn't give a fuck about anyone else, it's Little Richard.

0:18:28 > 0:18:32And he goes, "Yeah, he's my dad." I said, "Shut the fuck, really?

0:18:32 > 0:18:34He goes, "Yeah, come here."

0:18:34 > 0:18:38And there's this limo parked up front, and he goes...

0:18:38 > 0:18:39And the window comes down like...

0:18:39 > 0:18:42And fucking Little Richard is sitting right there!

0:18:42 > 0:18:47I'm like, "Oh, my God." And he goes, "Hey, Dad, this guy..."

0:18:47 > 0:18:50And he was like, "What?" He said, "This guy's a musician".

0:18:50 > 0:18:51And he goes, "Oh."

0:18:51 > 0:18:55And the window comes down and he goes, "God bless you!"

0:18:55 > 0:18:59How weird must it have been to be gay and black in Macon, Georgia

0:18:59 > 0:19:00in the '50s?

0:19:00 > 0:19:03- And an amazing singer. - The best rock'n'roll singer ever.

0:19:03 > 0:19:07I don't know who people consider the originator of rock'n'roll.

0:19:07 > 0:19:10That's who I think it is, Little Richard. He was crazy.

0:19:10 > 0:19:14Him, Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis. Those three.

0:19:14 > 0:19:18You can't tell who did the first whatever, but between them,

0:19:18 > 0:19:19they started rock'n'roll.

0:19:29 > 0:19:32When you meet the originals, you realise, like,

0:19:32 > 0:19:35of course they're troubadours and renegades.

0:19:35 > 0:19:37They're fucking freaks.

0:19:41 > 0:19:47That's where you got all of the music that was different than anything else, like Little Richard,

0:19:47 > 0:19:50a gay black dude in Macon, Georgia in the '50s.

0:19:50 > 0:19:53What was he gonna do? There was nothing he could do but

0:19:53 > 0:19:56- play rock'n'roll.- Not going to be a boxer, is he?- Probably not!

0:20:00 > 0:20:03People said, "Don't you like Prince?", back in the '70s and '80s.

0:20:03 > 0:20:06I said, "No, I've seen Jimi Hendrix".

0:20:06 > 0:20:10He comes on with scarves all over him with a Stratocaster.

0:20:10 > 0:20:11Are you kidding?

0:20:11 > 0:20:14I used to score for Mitch, I used to score dope for him.

0:20:16 > 0:20:18And I used to score acid for Hendrix.

0:20:18 > 0:20:19He was a very fair man.

0:20:19 > 0:20:23I would give him ten trips, and he would give me three and take seven.

0:20:23 > 0:20:26- Very generous.- But you had to take them then, on the spot.

0:20:28 > 0:20:30Yeah.

0:20:30 > 0:20:34The thing is with acid, they say it doesn't work two days in a row.

0:20:34 > 0:20:37But we found that if you double the dose, it does!

0:20:58 > 0:20:59Gutsy ending.

0:20:59 > 0:21:01Lemmy.

0:21:13 > 0:21:14FINAL CHORD

0:21:16 > 0:21:18- Yeah!- Yeah.

0:21:18 > 0:21:23- See you, buddy. When are you back? Are you here for good now? - I'm not away for a while.

0:21:23 > 0:21:27I'll call you when I get back. Let's grab a drink. I haven't been to the Rainbow in ages.

0:21:27 > 0:21:31I had a fight going on with the fucking Darkness, this band, right?

0:21:31 > 0:21:36That's why I called you, because I was sitting there. We went to the show and the show was fun.

0:21:36 > 0:21:41So we went to the Rainbow and we were sitting there, and I'm sitting at a table talking to the singer,

0:21:41 > 0:21:45and he says, "Hey, you recorded a song with Lemmy, right?" I said, "Yeah".

0:21:45 > 0:21:49He said, "We kind of have a little feud going with him right now." I was like, "Why?"

0:21:49 > 0:21:53And he said, "He reviewed our record and he said it was fucking shit."

0:21:53 > 0:21:56And I'm like, "Have you ever met him?" He said no.

0:21:56 > 0:21:58I don't think you had met him before.

0:21:58 > 0:22:02I'm like, "Dude, he's the fucking greatest guy". He's like, "Yeah, well,

0:22:02 > 0:22:05"so I called him a fucking cunt or something in the press."

0:22:05 > 0:22:09I'm like, "Honestly, he's a good dude. You'd like him".

0:22:09 > 0:22:11And I said, "I'm going to take a piss."

0:22:11 > 0:22:14And I fucking got my cellphone and I'm like, "Lem, what are you doing?

0:22:14 > 0:22:18- "Come on up for a drink!"- So I got the whole of Darkness there.

0:22:18 > 0:22:22When he sees you coming, it was just like, "Oh, fuck me, no!"

0:22:22 > 0:22:26And Lemmy sat down. At first I'm like, "Hey, what's going on?"

0:22:26 > 0:22:28He's like, "You know, I wanted to go to the Darkness gig,

0:22:28 > 0:22:30"but they banned me from the show".

0:22:30 > 0:22:35- And I said, "Have you met Justin, the singer?"- I talked to him for about half an hour that night.

0:22:35 > 0:22:39- Yeah.- And you didn't change my opinion one bit!

0:22:39 > 0:22:40LAUGHTER

0:22:40 > 0:22:42MOTORBIKE ENGINE ROARS

0:22:48 > 0:22:50# Riots in the burning street

0:22:50 > 0:22:51# Crystal night outside

0:22:51 > 0:22:53# Brutal music in the night

0:22:53 > 0:22:54# Enough to make you cry

0:22:54 > 0:22:56# Nobody knows how it is

0:22:56 > 0:22:58# To sleep and drown the world

0:22:58 > 0:23:01# I am the midnight snake to bite your little girls

0:23:01 > 0:23:03# Outside in the distance the city in the fire... #

0:23:04 > 0:23:10The Rainbow Bar and Grill is the most famous restaurant bar

0:23:10 > 0:23:14where musicians and hanger-oners and groupies...

0:23:14 > 0:23:16It's sort of like the place

0:23:16 > 0:23:20to go hunt and the place to die at the same time.

0:23:20 > 0:23:21It's a rocker place.

0:23:21 > 0:23:24If you're a rock'n'roller, you come to the Rainbow.

0:23:24 > 0:23:26If you're not, don't come here.

0:23:32 > 0:23:36# Well lawdy lawdy lawdy Miss Clawdy

0:23:36 > 0:23:40# Girl, you sure look good to me

0:23:42 > 0:23:44# Please don't excite me, baby... #

0:23:44 > 0:23:49In the '90s, for me anyway, Lemmy became synonymous with the Rainbow, because any time

0:23:49 > 0:23:52you'd go there, there he is playing the trivia machine.

0:23:52 > 0:23:55It literally became a joke. Like, "Let's go to the Rainbow

0:23:55 > 0:23:59"and have a drink and say hi to Lemmy," like jokingly, and then Lemmy's there.

0:23:59 > 0:24:02So many tourists come in, especially in summer.

0:24:02 > 0:24:04"Is Lemmy here? Is Lemmy here?"

0:24:04 > 0:24:06He's not here, he's on tour.

0:24:06 > 0:24:09He's got to be one of two places, the Rainbow or on tour.

0:24:09 > 0:24:13Just give Lemmy that game, a Jack and Coke and a cigarette, then he's there forever.

0:24:13 > 0:24:16When people come in here and they go on the game

0:24:16 > 0:24:19and they go, "It says Lemmy up there." "Yeah, Lemmy from Motorhead."

0:24:19 > 0:24:23"No! It can't be." This is the middle of the afternoon.

0:24:23 > 0:24:26Then all of a sudden, here's Lemmy sitting at the bar.

0:24:26 > 0:24:29I've seen everything from chicks welling up

0:24:29 > 0:24:31to the frat guy go, "Oh, my God!"

0:24:31 > 0:24:34It's best when they start crying. It's so cute.

0:24:34 > 0:24:36Anyone that wants a picture, he'll take one.

0:24:36 > 0:24:39Anybody that wants to talk to him, he'll talk to them.

0:24:39 > 0:24:42But you got to let him play his Megatouch first.

0:24:42 > 0:24:44He'll be sitting there playing it.

0:24:44 > 0:24:49Some sort of weird heavy-metal meditation,

0:24:49 > 0:24:53mixed with Jack and Coke and something else that we won't disclose.

0:25:04 > 0:25:07I was a house painter for about three weeks.

0:25:09 > 0:25:11Working for this old gay guy called Mr Brownsword.

0:25:13 > 0:25:16How's that? It's true, too.

0:25:16 > 0:25:17Mr fricking Brownsword.

0:25:19 > 0:25:21It doesn't come any better than that.

0:25:21 > 0:25:23Monty Python couldn't do better.

0:25:23 > 0:25:25Luckily, he fancied my mate and not me,

0:25:25 > 0:25:29so I got to paint the upstairs while he was attacking Colin downstairs.

0:25:29 > 0:25:32I worked at the riding stables in the summer. I worked on the fair

0:25:32 > 0:25:36when the fair came round. What else? I worked in a factory for a while,

0:25:36 > 0:25:39but that was terrible. I grew my hair, so they fired me.

0:25:39 > 0:25:43We had the beach, the sea, the horses, so it was great.

0:25:43 > 0:25:45I had a pretty good childhood.

0:25:45 > 0:25:47I ain't complaining.

0:25:47 > 0:25:50Until they fucking ruined it and put the school in there.

0:25:50 > 0:25:53I had heard before that Lemmy went to school here,

0:25:53 > 0:25:56but I had heard a load of rumours about it first.

0:25:56 > 0:25:58I checked on the internet and found it was true.

0:25:58 > 0:26:01- I heard Lemmy got expelled from this school.- For what reason?

0:26:01 > 0:26:04Apparently, he was playing his guitar down the Tannoy,

0:26:04 > 0:26:06but I'm not sure if that's true.

0:26:06 > 0:26:09I don't know if he wanted to be a rock star.

0:26:09 > 0:26:11I think it just came naturally. That is how he seems.

0:26:11 > 0:26:13He seems like pure rock.

0:26:13 > 0:26:15# If you like to gamble

0:26:15 > 0:26:17# I tell you I'm your man.

0:26:17 > 0:26:18# You win some lose some

0:26:18 > 0:26:20# It's all the same to me

0:26:23 > 0:26:24# The ace of spades

0:26:24 > 0:26:26# The ace of spades

0:26:26 > 0:26:29# The ace of spades

0:26:29 > 0:26:30# The ace of spades! #

0:26:30 > 0:26:32Hi, Lemmy!

0:26:39 > 0:26:42# Dandy Dandy

0:26:42 > 0:26:44# Where you going to go now?

0:26:44 > 0:26:45# Who you going to run to?

0:26:47 > 0:26:49# All your little life

0:26:49 > 0:26:51# You're chasing all the girls... #

0:26:51 > 0:26:55I saw the Vickers at the Oasis in Manchester, and I thought

0:26:55 > 0:26:58they were excellent, so I went and asked for a job with them.

0:26:58 > 0:27:00# Chatting up the ladies

0:27:00 > 0:27:02# Tickling the fancy

0:27:03 > 0:27:06# Hiring out your charms... #

0:27:06 > 0:27:10We'd be on with the Kinks, the Who, the Hollies.

0:27:10 > 0:27:12We played at South Pier, Blackpool, with the Who.

0:27:12 > 0:27:16And all the audience were chanting "we want the Vickers."

0:27:16 > 0:27:18Roger Daltrey didn't like that.

0:27:18 > 0:27:20They were a damn good band.

0:27:20 > 0:27:23And compare very favourably

0:27:23 > 0:27:25with any of the bands who were bigger,

0:27:25 > 0:27:28like the Who and the Kinks and Manfred Mann and all those people.

0:27:28 > 0:27:32At the time, they were as big in the north as the Kinks were in the South.

0:27:32 > 0:27:36We just toured around the north of England, really.

0:27:36 > 0:27:39We couldn't even get arrested in London.

0:27:39 > 0:27:42North of Birmingham, we were big stars. This was 1965/6.

0:27:42 > 0:27:45We were on £200 a week each, clear.

0:27:45 > 0:27:47That's like £4,000 a week each now.

0:27:47 > 0:27:50We all had Jags. We had a speedboat, for Christ's sake.

0:27:50 > 0:27:52We used to go water-skiing on Windermere.

0:27:52 > 0:27:56It was rock 'n roll with a bit of thump. Very aggressive.

0:27:56 > 0:27:59He would go up to his amplifier and feed his guitar back,

0:27:59 > 0:28:01and he would make them scream.

0:28:03 > 0:28:06When I first joined the Vickers, they were ambitious.

0:28:06 > 0:28:11They settled into this routine of doing the same gigs every year.

0:28:12 > 0:28:15In the end, they became a cabaret show.

0:28:15 > 0:28:17So it wasn't for me.

0:28:17 > 0:28:20He wanted to be in the thick of it in London.

0:28:20 > 0:28:21And we didn't.

0:28:31 > 0:28:36What I really like about the Lemmy mythology is that he used to

0:28:36 > 0:28:39be a roadie for Jimi Hendrix, too,

0:28:39 > 0:28:42which scores a lot of points in my book, man.

0:28:42 > 0:28:47He would rather play an instrument than carry it.

0:28:47 > 0:28:49And so that gives you the idea.

0:28:50 > 0:28:55Just as a resume piece, defining "what is a rocker?",

0:28:55 > 0:28:59he had it to his core, you know.

0:28:59 > 0:29:02The kind of guy that says "If I can't be in the band...

0:29:02 > 0:29:04"I'll carry their equipment".

0:29:04 > 0:29:06He hung out with musicians,

0:29:06 > 0:29:10and he did it continually until people let him play.

0:29:10 > 0:29:12He's really come up the hard way.

0:29:15 > 0:29:18He said one of the most amazing one-liners I've ever

0:29:18 > 0:29:20heard in my life, to me.

0:29:20 > 0:29:23He said I remember before there was rock'n'roll.

0:29:23 > 0:29:27I said "wow, that is a wild thing to say."

0:29:27 > 0:29:29I said, "What do you mean?"

0:29:29 > 0:29:31I'm not going to try and imitate his voice.

0:29:31 > 0:29:34He said "I remember when there were only Rosemary Clooney records.

0:29:34 > 0:29:36"I remember before there was rock'n'roll.

0:29:36 > 0:29:39"There were just your mum's records."

0:29:39 > 0:29:41I think I'm paraphrasing.

0:29:41 > 0:29:44He said something like "then we Elvis and never turned back.

0:29:44 > 0:29:47"We heard rock'n'roll" and said "that's us."

0:29:47 > 0:29:51In the '60s, to get albums and singles,

0:29:51 > 0:29:54I had to go down to the electrical appliance shop,

0:29:54 > 0:29:58and he would order it for me from whatever company.

0:29:58 > 0:30:02He wasn't licensed to do it, it was just a friendly basis.

0:30:02 > 0:30:06He would order them for me and three weeks later, they would come back.

0:30:06 > 0:30:07The Buddy Holly record called Wishing,

0:30:07 > 0:30:11and a Buddy Holly record called Learning The Game.

0:30:11 > 0:30:14Eddie Cochran, Three Steps To Heaven, and Something Else.

0:30:14 > 0:30:17Kids, without knowing it, when they listen to Motorhead, they're getting

0:30:17 > 0:30:20Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochran.

0:30:20 > 0:30:23It was the same thing with the original punk rock guys.

0:30:23 > 0:30:27They were very influenced by that music. A lot of times, the fans don't know that.

0:30:27 > 0:30:30But when they are listing to Ace Of Spades,

0:30:30 > 0:30:32they are listing to Eddie Cochran.

0:30:32 > 0:30:34That's Lem's influence.

0:30:46 > 0:30:51# Well, I taught the weeping willow how to cry

0:30:51 > 0:30:56# And I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky... #

0:30:56 > 0:30:58It is like what we did when we are were teenagers

0:30:58 > 0:31:01and that is why we played music in the first place.

0:31:01 > 0:31:04The music was so real, so unpretentious,

0:31:04 > 0:31:06that people can't help but like it.

0:31:11 > 0:31:15# A bad little kid moved into the neighbourhood... #

0:31:15 > 0:31:20The genesis of Headcat was somebody wanted me to do one track for an Elvis tribute record.

0:31:20 > 0:31:23I know Lem loves Elvis, as did Jonny Ramone, so I thought,

0:31:23 > 0:31:26wouldn't it be cool to get Jon and Lem on the same record.

0:31:26 > 0:31:29So we went in and we went and did the song.

0:31:29 > 0:31:33Jon went home and we had all the studio time left because we did it so quickly.

0:31:33 > 0:31:37We all knew the same songs by heart, so we said we should do an album.

0:31:37 > 0:31:39So we did.

0:31:39 > 0:31:43# Buys all the rock'n'roll books from the magazine stand. #

0:31:52 > 0:31:56This apartment is like a fucking museum. It is a museum.

0:31:56 > 0:31:59I have seen museums with less shit in them.

0:31:59 > 0:32:00It is one of those things.

0:32:00 > 0:32:05This was available and it was near the Rainbow, you know.

0:32:05 > 0:32:09Because that is the only reference to LA I have ever had.

0:32:09 > 0:32:13All I've ever done is stay at the Park Sunset and come up to the Rainbow.

0:32:13 > 0:32:17Which is what we used to do. He's pretty cool, isn't he.

0:32:19 > 0:32:22That is the Metal Hammer award. Two of them.

0:32:22 > 0:32:26This is a porcelain model of me,

0:32:26 > 0:32:28done by somebody and given to me on the road.

0:32:28 > 0:32:32It is pretty interesting shit. You get given some great stuff.

0:32:32 > 0:32:35The platinum album is from Joan Jett.

0:32:35 > 0:32:38The gold one is from Lita Ford,

0:32:38 > 0:32:40because I wrote a song on that album.

0:32:40 > 0:32:43That's from a festival in Germany.

0:32:43 > 0:32:45And this is my Scottish clan - Fraser.

0:32:45 > 0:32:48And this is my honorary membership in the Rangers.

0:32:48 > 0:32:50There's my action figure.

0:32:50 > 0:32:53You've got to keep these in their original boxes.

0:32:53 > 0:32:57One day, it might be worth as much as 5.

0:32:57 > 0:33:00Silver and gold records for Ace Of Spades.

0:33:00 > 0:33:06This is from Hammersmith Odeon. And this is by a German cat.

0:33:06 > 0:33:09Pretty good, too, huh.

0:33:13 > 0:33:15I wish I hadn't dropped it, you know.

0:33:16 > 0:33:18Why not move?

0:33:18 > 0:33:20For one thing, I'm never going to get a place for the money

0:33:20 > 0:33:22I'm paying here.

0:33:22 > 0:33:24I've got a place that is rent controlled,

0:33:24 > 0:33:27they can't put it up by more than six percent a year,

0:33:27 > 0:33:30so I am still only paying 900 bucks for a block from Sunset.

0:33:30 > 0:33:33I am never going to get a deal like that.

0:33:33 > 0:33:37And I'd rather live around here because I like it around here.

0:33:37 > 0:33:40What's your most cherished possession in here?

0:33:41 > 0:33:43My son.

0:33:46 > 0:33:48He's the only one I have got.

0:33:48 > 0:33:50I mean, I have another one, but I have never seen him,

0:33:50 > 0:33:53so he doesn't count, really.

0:33:53 > 0:33:54Neither have I, no.

0:33:54 > 0:33:58His mother went and found him two years ago,

0:33:58 > 0:34:00says he's five foot tall,

0:34:00 > 0:34:05just like me, and he is a computer fucking programmer, or something.

0:34:07 > 0:34:11She's a social worker, and she's put on a bit of weight,

0:34:11 > 0:34:14so she wears these Paisley smocks.

0:34:14 > 0:34:17She said he put his head in his hands when she told him

0:34:17 > 0:34:21she was his mother, she said she hadn't got a heart to tell him who his father was!

0:34:21 > 0:34:25Probably be out in the parking lot with a fucking pistol.

0:34:30 > 0:34:33But you can't win them all, can you? Where would you put them?

0:34:33 > 0:34:35Yes, but I mean...

0:34:35 > 0:34:39I don't know, I just like stuff. I've always liked stuff.

0:34:39 > 0:34:40Stuff is what happens, you know.

0:34:42 > 0:34:44In your life, you get stuff.

0:34:44 > 0:34:47Then you lose some stuff and you keep some stuff, and then at the end,

0:34:47 > 0:34:50you leave it for some other poor bastard to be saddled with

0:34:50 > 0:34:51it the rest of their lives.

0:34:54 > 0:34:57Don't worry, you'll have all of this shit soon enough.

0:34:57 > 0:34:59I'm looking forward to that.

0:34:59 > 0:35:00I have no doubt, yeah.

0:35:02 > 0:35:05- I'd rather have you than all of that stuff.- I know, yeah.

0:35:05 > 0:35:08I can never imagine why that is.

0:35:08 > 0:35:11Why would people rather have some gobsmacked human

0:35:11 > 0:35:14instead of a load of money? I've never understood that.

0:35:14 > 0:35:16Money doesn't love you back, does it?

0:35:16 > 0:35:19You can spend it, but it doesn't love you back.

0:35:19 > 0:35:20You can imagine it does.

0:35:20 > 0:35:23I know you met your dad when you were six.

0:35:25 > 0:35:27I met him, too.

0:35:27 > 0:35:29Yes, we met each other at the same time.

0:35:29 > 0:35:33- Funny how that happens.- Like two ships meeting in the cosmos.

0:35:33 > 0:35:35It's a memory that is all frayed around the edges,

0:35:35 > 0:35:38and all sepia toned.

0:35:38 > 0:35:42- I was sepia then, I was almost see-through, in fact.- Yeah.

0:35:42 > 0:35:47I just remember tugging at these slim legs in jeans.

0:35:47 > 0:35:48That's me, you see.

0:35:48 > 0:35:52I was very small, so I just saw the legs.

0:35:52 > 0:35:54Then what happened?

0:35:54 > 0:35:56- I don't really remember. - There was a dope deal.

0:35:56 > 0:35:59I was waiting for some hash to arrive, or something,

0:35:59 > 0:36:02and I was in the kitchen making a piece of toast

0:36:02 > 0:36:07and the small blonde child came in, "you're my dad,

0:36:07 > 0:36:09"I am your son and my mum's in the other room."

0:36:09 > 0:36:12I looked around and there was Tracey,

0:36:12 > 0:36:14babbling like an idiot as usual.

0:36:14 > 0:36:19I don't even know how have he got there, she wasn't in on

0:36:19 > 0:36:24the dope deal because she didn't do drugs, so why was she there?

0:36:24 > 0:36:28- How did she get in there?- She went looking for you, I know that.

0:36:28 > 0:36:36That's because when I was about four, I was in kindergarten, right.

0:36:36 > 0:36:37Right.

0:36:37 > 0:36:40And there was this other kid that came up to me

0:36:40 > 0:36:43and he said, "I've got a daddy and mummy."

0:36:43 > 0:36:46I said, "I've only got a mummy."

0:36:46 > 0:36:47He said, "you must have a daddy

0:36:47 > 0:36:50"because everybody has a daddy and mummy."

0:36:50 > 0:36:54- So I went home and said... - Where is my daddy? You bitch?!

0:36:54 > 0:36:56And I got this look like...

0:36:56 > 0:36:58We don't talk about him in this house!

0:37:00 > 0:37:02Then I think, after that,

0:37:02 > 0:37:06endeavours were made to introduce us to each other.

0:37:06 > 0:37:10I didn't want to live with his mother, you see.

0:37:10 > 0:37:12It was only casual sex, really.

0:37:12 > 0:37:17I mean, I like Tracey, she is great and she did a really good job

0:37:17 > 0:37:22bringing him up, up to a point, and he has turned out to be

0:37:22 > 0:37:24a really clever kid, and he is a great musician.

0:37:24 > 0:37:26You have no idea how good he is.

0:37:26 > 0:37:29My mum knew the Beatles, right?

0:37:29 > 0:37:32Yes, she used to go out with John Lennon, didn't she?

0:37:32 > 0:37:35Obviously trying to get to Paul McCartney through him.

0:37:35 > 0:37:37No, she lost her virginity to John Lennon.

0:37:37 > 0:37:42The story I was told by my mum is that George liked her

0:37:42 > 0:37:44and he would shyly, coyly look at her

0:37:44 > 0:37:46when he walked past a bus stop.

0:37:46 > 0:37:50George was standing there, she wasn't interested in George.

0:37:50 > 0:37:52And then, um...

0:37:52 > 0:37:55But I don't know, maybe if she had been interested,

0:37:55 > 0:37:58it would have lasted longer than with John.

0:37:58 > 0:38:02- It didn't last long with John, did it?- No, it didn't.

0:38:02 > 0:38:05But she always talked about it, she was very smitten.

0:38:05 > 0:38:09But she called you after Paul, not John.

0:38:09 > 0:38:11Yes, that is a strange one.

0:38:11 > 0:38:14She must have been thinking about Paul when she was with John.

0:38:14 > 0:38:18Perhaps she called him Paul and that is why it didn't last.

0:38:18 > 0:38:20- I love you, Paul!- Yeah!

0:38:22 > 0:38:26We swapped girlfriends twice, didn't we?

0:38:26 > 0:38:29At The Limelight and at Stringfellows.

0:38:29 > 0:38:31We swapped girlfriends one night

0:38:31 > 0:38:34and then did it again two months later.

0:38:36 > 0:38:39A lot of chicks like that, the old man and the son.

0:38:41 > 0:38:45It's like screwing the daughter and the mother at the same time.

0:38:45 > 0:38:47- That kind of thing.- Yeah.

0:38:51 > 0:38:54Does it ever feel too cluttered for you?

0:38:54 > 0:38:57Yeah. All the time. What do you think?

0:38:57 > 0:39:00Are you shooting the trash can? Fuck off, man.

0:39:00 > 0:39:02You better not put that in...

0:39:02 > 0:39:04- Where is the trash can?- There.

0:39:06 > 0:39:11I didn't see that, I was looking at that, whatever that is.

0:39:11 > 0:39:14That's a fucking Domino's bargain list.

0:39:14 > 0:39:17'One of my favourite memories of my dad was'

0:39:17 > 0:39:19when I was six years old,

0:39:19 > 0:39:24and I was just learning to play three or four chords.

0:39:24 > 0:39:27He came to visit and as he was leaving, he picked up

0:39:27 > 0:39:29one of the other guitars and started

0:39:29 > 0:39:32playing by the front door, like E major,

0:39:32 > 0:39:38and we just a jammed on that one chord for about 20 minutes.

0:39:38 > 0:39:43And he was just looking right into my face, right into my eyes.

0:39:43 > 0:39:45Just egging me on.

0:39:45 > 0:39:48This is the rhythm, this is the feel, this is how you do it.

0:39:53 > 0:39:57Probably the third time I had ever seen him, something like that.

0:39:57 > 0:40:00So that was a major event in my life.

0:40:00 > 0:40:03The nicest thing he ever said to me was very recently,

0:40:03 > 0:40:06was when you asked him what was the most precious thing in the room,

0:40:06 > 0:40:10and he said, "my son."

0:40:11 > 0:40:16I was kind of blown away by that, I wasn't expecting that response.

0:40:16 > 0:40:20I wasn't thinking he would say that. That was amazing.

0:40:20 > 0:40:21It was wonderful.

0:40:21 > 0:40:24Thank you. This is my son, Paul.

0:40:27 > 0:40:29Not bad for an only child.

0:40:31 > 0:40:34# I'm so lazy... #

0:40:40 > 0:40:44- Go and take it to him. - That is some size. That's cool.

0:40:47 > 0:40:50I present this tank... LAUGHS

0:40:53 > 0:40:55- Isn't that bad?- Yeah, it is.

0:40:55 > 0:40:57I served several years in the US Army

0:40:57 > 0:41:00as a special operations soldier,

0:41:00 > 0:41:03both in the Ranger Regiment and special forces

0:41:03 > 0:41:06and have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

0:41:06 > 0:41:08I know Lemmy is a big military history buff.

0:41:08 > 0:41:15That is my kind of rock and roll connective tissue to the military.

0:41:15 > 0:41:17It was probably Motorhead.

0:41:19 > 0:41:23I would wear Motorhead t-shirts over there,

0:41:23 > 0:41:25in a way stating my own individuality.

0:41:27 > 0:41:31Not to glorify war or to say, war is really cool, or whatever,

0:41:31 > 0:41:32it is what it is.

0:41:32 > 0:41:35It is a function of the human condition.

0:41:35 > 0:41:39Motorhead is good go to war music.

0:41:39 > 0:41:42Most people would know he is a World Wars One and Two historian.

0:41:42 > 0:41:461916, their first Grammy nomination record,

0:41:46 > 0:41:48that was about World War One.

0:41:48 > 0:41:53He's a collector, in, I would say, war memorabilia in general.

0:41:53 > 0:41:57I remember watching a BBC documentary with him,

0:41:57 > 0:42:00he was showing me an aeroplane, a Messerschmitt or something,

0:42:00 > 0:42:03I'm trying to remember what it was, and he was saying that's wrong.

0:42:03 > 0:42:06I said it was a documentary, they must have researched this shit,

0:42:06 > 0:42:11he brings out three books showing that it wasn't even built then.

0:42:36 > 0:42:38Everybody collects something, right?

0:42:38 > 0:42:42General Malband used to collect elephants.

0:42:42 > 0:42:44Elephants all over his fucking apartment.

0:42:46 > 0:42:50I think my collection is more interesting.

0:42:54 > 0:42:56Luftwaffe Damascus sword.

0:42:56 > 0:42:58See the blade?

0:42:59 > 0:43:01That's Damascus steel.

0:43:01 > 0:43:04That's a Luftwaffe middle dagger.

0:43:07 > 0:43:09That is quite pretty, I think.

0:43:12 > 0:43:17Purely decorational. These are Masonic daggers.

0:43:18 > 0:43:20Look at that.

0:43:26 > 0:43:30That is a nice piece, too. This is from Toledo.

0:43:30 > 0:43:31Not Ohio.

0:43:35 > 0:43:37Look at this fucking thing.

0:43:39 > 0:43:41- What is that?- British.

0:43:44 > 0:43:48That is British, I think it is from the First World War.

0:43:48 > 0:43:51And this is a German bayonet.

0:43:54 > 0:43:58That's seen action. I always liked the workmanship and the designs.

0:43:58 > 0:44:01They were the last great knife makers,

0:44:01 > 0:44:03the last great sword makers.

0:44:03 > 0:44:07It is a craft in Germany that has largely disappeared.

0:44:09 > 0:44:12Even the American swords were made in Germany.

0:44:12 > 0:44:14In the civil war in America, a lot of German swords were

0:44:14 > 0:44:19used in that war, and up until the First World War.

0:44:19 > 0:44:24I've got Argentinian stuff, Yugoslav, Croat, Slovakian.

0:44:24 > 0:44:29How long has it taken you to amass this collection? Years and years?

0:44:29 > 0:44:3119 years, yeah.

0:44:31 > 0:44:34When I came over to the States, I had nothing.

0:44:38 > 0:44:40So there we are. Come on.

0:44:40 > 0:44:44ENGINE ROARS

0:45:04 > 0:45:08- Thought I'd dress up. - Yeah, you look good!

0:45:08 > 0:45:14- Good to meet you.- Scott, nice to meet you. Check it out.

0:45:14 > 0:45:17MP40s, G43, K98.

0:45:17 > 0:45:18That's a nice gun, that.

0:45:18 > 0:45:22- That's a chassis of a 222, isn't it? - That is a 251.- 251.

0:45:22 > 0:45:26- What was the chassis?- A 38T.

0:45:29 > 0:45:32- Skoda?- Right. - So did you have to restore it?

0:45:32 > 0:45:36Yeah. It's got an original engine in it.

0:45:44 > 0:45:46ENGINE STARTS

0:45:55 > 0:45:59This was actually the smallest tank that the Germans made.

0:45:59 > 0:46:01It was made in Czechoslovakia,

0:46:01 > 0:46:04based on the Skoda design from before the war.

0:46:04 > 0:46:09This was called a Hetzer, a 38T chassis, it was a tank killer.

0:46:09 > 0:46:11This is a big gun for a tank this size.

0:46:11 > 0:46:14It is a 75 millimetre, armour piercing gun, you know.

0:46:14 > 0:46:17This would stop anything, more or less.

0:46:21 > 0:46:24They buried this tank in the ground, right,

0:46:24 > 0:46:27so that all that would be visible would be this,

0:46:27 > 0:46:30just the gun and the top of the tank.

0:46:30 > 0:46:35So they would sit there and wait for you to come along and just kill you.

0:46:37 > 0:46:39Wars are the most interesting times.

0:46:39 > 0:46:42It shows the best and the worst in people.

0:46:42 > 0:46:45You get to find out who your real friends are.

0:46:45 > 0:46:49Ask any of those boys coming back from Iraq, you know.

0:46:49 > 0:46:52Anybody who's watching this film and thinks that you're Nazi,

0:46:52 > 0:46:54what do you want to say to them?

0:46:54 > 0:46:56Well, I've had six black girlfriends, so far.

0:46:56 > 0:47:00So, I'm one of the worst Nazis you ever met, right?

0:47:00 > 0:47:02Imagine going to Nuremberg

0:47:02 > 0:47:05and introducing my girlfriend to the Fuhrer? I don't think so.

0:47:05 > 0:47:08I just dress how I like to dress.

0:47:09 > 0:47:12I don't ask anybody else to do it.

0:47:12 > 0:47:15It's a free country, supposedly.

0:47:16 > 0:47:20I've often said if the Israeli Army had the best uniforms,

0:47:20 > 0:47:21I would collect those.

0:47:21 > 0:47:25But they don't, you know? So there you go.

0:47:25 > 0:47:29It's ridiculous to think that I could be a Nazi.

0:47:29 > 0:47:31I'm about as far from it as you can get.

0:47:33 > 0:47:35Fire!

0:47:41 > 0:47:44- How was that, Lemmy? - That was great.

0:47:56 > 0:47:59MUSIC: "Silver Machine" by Hawkwind

0:48:04 > 0:48:07I think Hawkwind were really ahead of their time.

0:48:07 > 0:48:10I worship Hawkwind. That is some genius music.

0:48:14 > 0:48:17They were kind of like a prog rock group

0:48:17 > 0:48:20that punks were allowed to like.

0:48:20 > 0:48:24# I, I just took a ride

0:48:26 > 0:48:29# In a silver machine

0:48:29 > 0:48:32# And I'm still feeling mean... #

0:48:32 > 0:48:35It was dangerous rock and roll. It's not choreographed.

0:48:35 > 0:48:38It's not safe, it's not cliched.

0:48:38 > 0:48:41You never know what you are going to see.

0:48:41 > 0:48:43That has got to be good.

0:48:46 > 0:48:49We're a space rock band, so a lot of the music we played

0:48:49 > 0:48:53was around science fiction stories, which we would interpret into music.

0:48:53 > 0:48:57So we were a pretty heavy rock band with nice, flowing electronics.

0:48:57 > 0:49:01People thought we were some sort of hippy, fucking, flower people, and it wasn't true.

0:49:01 > 0:49:03We were a black nightmare.

0:49:03 > 0:49:06We used to lock the doors so people couldn't get out.

0:49:06 > 0:49:11It was a psychedelic experience, and no-one was doing that sort of thing.

0:49:11 > 0:49:14We just used to have this trancey beat going.

0:49:14 > 0:49:17This trancey rhythm, and a strobe going.

0:49:17 > 0:49:21It didn't drive you insane, it's just put you into a trance.

0:49:21 > 0:49:23# I got a silver machine

0:49:23 > 0:49:27# I got a silver machine

0:49:27 > 0:49:29# I got a silver machine... #

0:49:29 > 0:49:34For New Order, the driving sound that Hawkwind had,

0:49:34 > 0:49:36the very pulsing, percussive keyboard sounds,

0:49:36 > 0:49:39we would actually listen to that

0:49:39 > 0:49:42and to try and emulate it in songs like Temptation

0:49:42 > 0:49:46and Everything's Gone Green. We did try and rip off Hawkwind.

0:49:46 > 0:49:48They represented the first counter-culture.

0:49:48 > 0:49:52Alternative. That was all coming up.

0:49:52 > 0:49:54It was a wonderful time to be a kid.

0:49:54 > 0:49:57But mostly, I remember standing at the front,

0:49:57 > 0:50:01drooling at Stacia. The girl with her breasts out,

0:50:01 > 0:50:04which was incredible for a 12 or 13-year-old.

0:50:04 > 0:50:06It was like OUR education.

0:50:08 > 0:50:11We were a bunch of misfits.

0:50:11 > 0:50:13It was like a family, you know. It was like a family.

0:50:13 > 0:50:17We had a huge following, because we would do any gig.

0:50:17 > 0:50:21We would do a gig in London and it would be like a drug dealers' convention.

0:50:21 > 0:50:25Dik Mik and Lemmy was always into a lot of speed.

0:50:25 > 0:50:27Dick was grumpy, because they had been up for a few days,

0:50:27 > 0:50:30and we would get picked up in a van and he would be all grumpy.

0:50:30 > 0:50:33Lemmy would be all surly, and would slam the door and sit down.

0:50:33 > 0:50:37We were in the States touring, and we were in Niles, Michigan,

0:50:37 > 0:50:39on the way to Detroit.

0:50:39 > 0:50:43Niles is on the other side of Michigan from where Detroit is.

0:50:43 > 0:50:47We pulled over at a roadhouse to eat, and I was not hungry,

0:50:47 > 0:50:49being a speed-freak.

0:50:49 > 0:50:51I just got this new camera.

0:50:51 > 0:50:53So, I went prowling around looking for things to film,

0:50:53 > 0:50:56you know, new camera.

0:50:56 > 0:51:00And I conked over the head in this abandoned housing project.

0:51:00 > 0:51:04When I came round, without my camera, without any money,

0:51:04 > 0:51:07and I got back to the road house, and they'd gone.

0:51:07 > 0:51:11They'd dumped me there. What kind of shit is that?

0:51:11 > 0:51:14If one of your band members is missing after you have a meal,

0:51:14 > 0:51:18you just drive off? That's not the way I work.

0:51:18 > 0:51:22So now I'm stuck, so I have to hitch-hike across Michigan.

0:51:22 > 0:51:24I got to my room, crash out for about two hours,

0:51:24 > 0:51:26do the sound check, do the show,

0:51:26 > 0:51:31and then the next day I got busted for speed.

0:51:31 > 0:51:37In jail for two days in Canada, handcuffed to a fucking iron bar.

0:51:37 > 0:51:41Then I get the news that I am going in to Essex County jail.

0:51:41 > 0:51:45With my overalls on, going in to the delousing section.

0:51:45 > 0:51:50Then this guy says, "you are bailed." Thank you.

0:51:50 > 0:51:53Flown to Toronto immediately, do the show,

0:51:53 > 0:51:55four o'clock in the morning, fired.

0:51:55 > 0:51:57Apparently, they only got me out of jail

0:51:57 > 0:51:59because my replacement couldn't make it in time.

0:51:59 > 0:52:03I found Lemmy, in certain ways, quite hard to work with.

0:52:03 > 0:52:06We were in a band where everybody was taking different drugs.

0:52:06 > 0:52:09So you had this disparity between people

0:52:09 > 0:52:12of where they were, and what sort of wavelength they were on.

0:52:12 > 0:52:16I was into psychedelics, pot, and mushrooms, peyote,

0:52:16 > 0:52:20that sort of thing. Pretty calm stuff, you know?

0:52:20 > 0:52:23And Lemmy was more into amphetamines.

0:52:23 > 0:52:27He used to hang the band up because he was never on time to leave in the morning.

0:52:27 > 0:52:29We would have to get up, and catch a flight somewhere,

0:52:29 > 0:52:32and we'd all be downstairs and be waiting to go.

0:52:32 > 0:52:35"Christ, where is he?" And he'd still be in bed.

0:52:35 > 0:52:37"Come on Lemmy, for Christ's sake."

0:52:37 > 0:52:40It did cause a lot of stress within the band.

0:52:40 > 0:52:41All of us got pissed off.

0:52:41 > 0:52:44It wasn't just one or two, we did get pissed off.

0:52:44 > 0:52:47Then he got busted at the border, sort of thing.

0:52:47 > 0:52:53When you're on tour, it's like the last straw.

0:52:53 > 0:52:58It was decided, the majority, the band said, no, enough's enough. That was it.

0:52:58 > 0:53:03When I arrived at the gig and said, "where the fuck's Lemmy?"

0:53:03 > 0:53:09They said, this other guy, Paul Rudolph, was taking his place.

0:53:09 > 0:53:14They'd sacked Lemmy. I mean, I was devastated.

0:53:14 > 0:53:20But I'm the type of person... I keep a lot inside. So...

0:53:26 > 0:53:29I think I just carried on. But I was devastated.

0:53:29 > 0:53:32It was a sad thing, actually.

0:53:32 > 0:53:35Very sad. He was very upset over it.

0:53:35 > 0:53:39And, er... We all were, really.

0:53:39 > 0:53:44It was coming for a long time. It was '70s drugs snobbery.

0:53:44 > 0:53:47They were just doing organic drugs, man,

0:53:47 > 0:53:50and I was doing speed and organic drugs. They didn't like that.

0:53:50 > 0:53:54He hated us for it all. You would, wouldn't you?

0:53:54 > 0:53:59He described me as a sanctimonious, self-righteous asshole.

0:53:59 > 0:54:03I thought, that's all right, that's what he thinks of me.

0:54:03 > 0:54:06I went and screwed three of their old ladies.

0:54:09 > 0:54:11Vengeance is sweet, sayeth the Lord.

0:54:11 > 0:54:14I must admit, I was banging one of them already.

0:54:14 > 0:54:16Before I left.

0:54:16 > 0:54:18But it was a great time.

0:54:18 > 0:54:21I wouldn't have traded it for any other band, ever.

0:54:21 > 0:54:24I would probably have been in that now if they hadn't fired me.

0:54:24 > 0:54:25But there you are.

0:54:25 > 0:54:29It was quite good for him because look where he is now.

0:54:29 > 0:54:32How long have I been on the road? 19 years.

0:54:32 > 0:54:38- 19 years?- Give or take a year. - Isn't it boring after a while?

0:54:38 > 0:54:41- No.- Why is there so much violence on the road?

0:54:41 > 0:54:43- Why do you break things? - What violence?

0:54:43 > 0:54:44I mean, the violence.

0:54:44 > 0:54:47When you start... When you start doing things...

0:54:47 > 0:54:49What fucking violence?

0:54:51 > 0:54:55I don't know what you mean about violence.

0:54:55 > 0:54:57You want to see some violence, baby?

0:55:02 > 0:55:04No, not me!

0:55:06 > 0:55:07Want to do an interview?

0:55:20 > 0:55:24Lemmy was at the beginning of heavy-metal,

0:55:24 > 0:55:25maybe even pre Black Sabbath.

0:55:25 > 0:55:30If they'd said to me, who was the original metal man?,

0:55:30 > 0:55:33it is a toss between Lemmy and Black Sabbath.

0:55:33 > 0:55:35But I would say Lem, and Motorhead.

0:55:38 > 0:55:43It took elements of what existed as heavy metal, mixed it with punk

0:55:43 > 0:55:46and created this frantic, intense, powerful music form

0:55:46 > 0:55:50that went on to define heavy metal as we know it.

0:55:50 > 0:55:52It was brash, in your face,

0:55:52 > 0:55:55it was like getting socked by an overhand right,

0:55:55 > 0:55:56like Mike Tyson in his prime.

0:55:56 > 0:56:01You'd turn the radio on and it was really rancid disco,

0:56:01 > 0:56:03bad boy band pop-music, you know?

0:56:03 > 0:56:05The Osmonds, stuff like that.

0:56:05 > 0:56:08You'd go and see a Motorhead show and it was completely different.

0:56:08 > 0:56:13# The silver-tongued devil, demon lynch

0:56:13 > 0:56:16# I know just what I'm doing

0:56:16 > 0:56:20# I like a little innocent bitch... #

0:56:20 > 0:56:24I could not believe that this, there was a guy singing like that

0:56:24 > 0:56:28on a record, and people were digging it. Whoa!

0:56:28 > 0:56:31We had headlines like the worst band in the world,

0:56:31 > 0:56:35but it was in big letters. Well, I mean, fucking great.

0:56:35 > 0:56:39Cause I didn't give a, well, you kind of care up to a point,

0:56:39 > 0:56:41but the kids were turning up.

0:56:41 > 0:56:45"I want to see the worst band in the world." They must be great.

0:56:48 > 0:56:51'Motorhead was speed music, with three people on speed.

0:56:51 > 0:56:54'Consistency of energy could be contributed to that'

0:56:54 > 0:56:56And our slim figures.

0:56:56 > 0:56:58LAUGHS

0:57:00 > 0:57:04'Everybody tried to be that heavy after that. Nobody's achieved it.'

0:57:04 > 0:57:07We fancied ourselves, Guns N' Roses did,

0:57:07 > 0:57:10but if we could be even close to as heavy as Motorhead,

0:57:10 > 0:57:12we'd be successful.

0:57:12 > 0:57:15'Back when I was young, 19,

0:57:15 > 0:57:18late '70s, early '80s, we were very punk rock.

0:57:18 > 0:57:23I had my little shelf of my old rock records I bought as a kid,

0:57:23 > 0:57:27Steve Miller, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, all these bands I used to go see.

0:57:27 > 0:57:30Then punk-rock happened and I saw the Clash and the Ramones

0:57:30 > 0:57:34and my life was changing, all of a sudden, that's the old, in with the new.

0:57:34 > 0:57:37And you'd see someone with long hair, well, he's a hippie.

0:57:37 > 0:57:40I can't listen to that music, Johnny Rotten says...

0:57:40 > 0:57:44And then someone would pull out the Ace Of Spades record.

0:57:44 > 0:57:47Oh, oh, wait a minute.

0:57:47 > 0:57:51This kind of goes against the gospel of the punk rock,

0:57:51 > 0:57:53because they have long hair and it's metal,

0:57:53 > 0:57:59but you put the record on and go, "Damn, man. I'm a Motorhead fan."

0:57:59 > 0:58:02#..playing hide and seek cos I'm a speed freak...#

0:58:02 > 0:58:05'It was their look, it was their attitude, their music.'

0:58:05 > 0:58:08You felt by listening to their records that they didn't fit in.

0:58:08 > 0:58:11You felt that. And when you didn't fit in yourself,

0:58:11 > 0:58:14there was that instant lightning bolt connection.

0:58:14 > 0:58:17"Oh, Shit. They're one of us. They're us."

0:58:17 > 0:58:20INSTRUMENTAL

0:58:25 > 0:58:30I think personally, this tour is the antidote to Simon Cowell

0:58:30 > 0:58:32and all the evil, shit music that he's purveying!

0:58:32 > 0:58:35CROWD CHEERS

0:58:35 > 0:58:37And if there's one man on this tour that embodies

0:58:37 > 0:58:41the spirit of rock and roll more than Lemmy, show him to me.

0:58:41 > 0:58:44Ladies and gentlemen, the great man himself, Lemmy!

0:58:44 > 0:58:47GUITAR INTRO

0:58:58 > 0:59:00INAUDIBLE

0:59:03 > 0:59:06'The Damned split up

0:59:06 > 0:59:08'and Brian James went off and did other stuff.

0:59:08 > 0:59:13'And we thought, could we possibly have a Damned without Brian?'

0:59:13 > 0:59:15"We need someone who can play base."

0:59:15 > 0:59:20So we asked Lemmy, and he instantly said yes. He would do some gigs with us.

0:59:20 > 0:59:22As a laugh, me and Scabby we said,

0:59:22 > 0:59:25"Let's see if he'll play SOS by Abba."

0:59:25 > 0:59:29We thought there was no way in the world, we did it as a joke

0:59:29 > 0:59:32and he said, "Yeah, I'll give that a go." And he played it!

0:59:32 > 0:59:34He played a whole bunch of Damned songs

0:59:34 > 0:59:38and we did one of his, one Motorhead song, we fucking ruined it.

0:59:38 > 0:59:40Yeah, he wasn't pleased about that.

0:59:40 > 0:59:44He said, "I learned all your fucking shitty songs, and you ruined my one."

0:59:44 > 0:59:46One fucking song! You bunch of cunts.

0:59:50 > 0:59:51The great man himself!

0:59:55 > 0:59:58- Killed By Death.- Metropolis. - Overkill.- I Don't Believe A Word.

0:59:58 > 1:00:03Some people might be like, "Killed By Death? That's stupid." I'm like, "No, you're stupid."

1:00:03 > 1:00:06Lemmy is an amazing lyricist, powerful lyricist, smart, sharp.

1:00:06 > 1:00:10'The first lyrics are just so twisted, straight in your face.'

1:00:10 > 1:00:13"Don't talk to me, I don't believe a word."

1:00:13 > 1:00:16"But that's the way I like it, baby, I don't want to live for ever."

1:00:16 > 1:00:20I mean, who can say it better, you know? I mean, that is one of the most prolific lines.

1:00:20 > 1:00:24"You win some, you lose some, It's all the same to me."

1:00:24 > 1:00:25I kind of live by that.

1:00:25 > 1:00:27Fuck Keith Richards.

1:00:28 > 1:00:32Fuck all those dudes that fucking, you know...

1:00:32 > 1:00:35That "survived" the Sixties

1:00:35 > 1:00:39and are fucking flying around on Learjets and, you know,

1:00:39 > 1:00:44living up their gunslinger reputation as they fuck supermodels

1:00:44 > 1:00:46in the most expensive hotel in Paris.

1:00:46 > 1:00:48It's like, "You know what Lemmy's doing?"

1:00:48 > 1:00:53Lemmy's probably drinking Jack and cokes and writing another record.

1:00:53 > 1:00:54Two, three, four.

1:01:01 > 1:01:03'One of the lyrics that Lemmy wrote for me was,'

1:01:03 > 1:01:05"Mama, I'm coming home".

1:01:06 > 1:01:10It's really a haunting feeling because I give someone that doesn't know

1:01:10 > 1:01:13what the situation with my wife and I really is...

1:01:13 > 1:01:18'It's kind of spooky when somebody writes a lyric, when you sing that lyric,'

1:01:18 > 1:01:21and you go, "Fucking hell, it's so close to home, you know?"

1:01:21 > 1:01:25Every time I played it on stage, it's like I get a chill up my spine.

1:01:27 > 1:01:29# Just a clown in a one-horse town

1:01:29 > 1:01:32# In broke-down second-hand car

1:01:32 > 1:01:34# Can you still get it up?

1:01:34 > 1:01:36# Or are we pushing too hard?

1:01:37 > 1:01:40# I think if you ever had a beautiful girl

1:01:40 > 1:01:42# You had to use your MasterCard. #

1:01:44 > 1:01:45Nah, let's go again.

1:01:48 > 1:01:50# Can you still get it up?

1:01:50 > 1:01:52# Or are we pushing too hard?

1:01:52 > 1:01:55# If you wanna get your hands on a beautiful girl

1:01:55 > 1:01:57# You gotta use a MasterCard. #

1:01:57 > 1:02:00- Let's listen to what we have, OK? - Yeah.

1:02:04 > 1:02:06They're pills. Oooh!

1:02:06 > 1:02:07HE LAUGHS

1:02:10 > 1:02:13- What kind of pills are they? Vitamins?- No.

1:02:16 > 1:02:18Diabetes. And umm...

1:02:20 > 1:02:22One for...

1:02:22 > 1:02:23blood pressure, I think.

1:02:26 > 1:02:28I mean, I told him, "My blood pressure's just fine.

1:02:28 > 1:02:31"Every time I cut myself, it comes right out."

1:02:31 > 1:02:33OK, lets hear it.

1:02:33 > 1:02:36# Or are we pushing too hard?

1:02:36 > 1:02:39# If you wanna get your hands On a beautiful girl

1:02:39 > 1:02:40# You gotta use a MasterCard

1:02:42 > 1:02:45# There's no excuse for bullshit

1:02:45 > 1:02:47# So don't try to feed me none

1:02:48 > 1:02:51# You better shake some action

1:02:51 > 1:02:53# Bring it on, bring it on... #

1:02:53 > 1:02:56We were sitting around talking, and he asked me about a quad injury.

1:02:56 > 1:02:59I had torn my quad like maybe a year before that.

1:02:59 > 1:03:03He just, out of nowhere, said, "You know when you tore your quad, did you think that was it?

1:03:03 > 1:03:06"Did you think your career was over? Were you finished?"

1:03:06 > 1:03:11And I said, "You know, it went through my head a few times, but I just kept going with it."

1:03:11 > 1:03:15He said, "When they told me I was diabetic and I was really sick with it,"

1:03:15 > 1:03:17which was actually right before he did my song,

1:03:17 > 1:03:22he said, "At first, I thought, 'I'm done. It's all over.' "

1:03:23 > 1:03:29Then he said, "I started thinking about it, and what the fuck am I going to do?

1:03:29 > 1:03:34"I've lived my whole life this way, I've done everything I've done up until now to get to where I'm at.

1:03:34 > 1:03:35"I'm not going to change."

1:03:35 > 1:03:38And the quote that always sticks with me, he said,

1:03:38 > 1:03:42"I do all the stuff that I do drug-wise and drinking-wise and all that stuff,

1:03:42 > 1:03:45"and at the end of the day, I'm too old to find God now."

1:03:47 > 1:03:49I'm touring, man.

1:03:58 > 1:04:01'He wanted us to do a couple of songs with him in the studio.

1:04:01 > 1:04:04'He came in there with a bottle of'

1:04:04 > 1:04:07Maker's Mark Whiskey.

1:04:07 > 1:04:10And I started drinking with him.

1:04:10 > 1:04:13'And we didn't really get much done because we were just drinking.

1:04:13 > 1:04:16And he was like playing guitar and showing me stuff

1:04:16 > 1:04:20and then we'd start drink, drink, drink, drink, drink.

1:04:20 > 1:04:21And...

1:04:21 > 1:04:24the next day, I had to go to a hospital.

1:04:24 > 1:04:26Lemmy gave me alcohol poisoning,

1:04:26 > 1:04:27basically!

1:04:27 > 1:04:29'There's Marlboro Reds,'

1:04:29 > 1:04:32Jack Daniels, speed, strippers and gambling.

1:04:32 > 1:04:34That's what he likes.

1:04:34 > 1:04:36'I remember me sitting down with Zakk

1:04:36 > 1:04:40'and he's showing us Beatle footage and stuff and...

1:04:40 > 1:04:41'he says,'

1:04:41 > 1:04:44"Do you want a Jack Daniels?" Me and Zakk, "Oh, far out."

1:04:44 > 1:04:47So, I remember this, he takes out a fifth of Jack Daniels

1:04:47 > 1:04:50and cracks the seal and then hands it to me,

1:04:50 > 1:04:53so I take a swig off it and hand it to Zakk.

1:04:53 > 1:04:56Zakk takes a swig of it, then he goes to hand it back to Lemmy,

1:04:56 > 1:04:59and Lemmy is opening another fifth for me and another for him.

1:04:59 > 1:05:01It was like having a beer with the guy!

1:05:01 > 1:05:06He wanted us to drink the whole fifth like we're drinking a beer. We're like, "Holy shit! No, no, no!"

1:05:06 > 1:05:10'First time I ever met the guy, he says, "Hello" '

1:05:10 > 1:05:14and proceeds to offer me crystal meth. This is a fucking hard-core dude!

1:05:20 > 1:05:22'I will say this.'

1:05:22 > 1:05:26I've never ever ever seen Lemmy incapacitated by booze or anything.

1:05:26 > 1:05:29I have not seen him fall off the stage,

1:05:29 > 1:05:31I haven't seen him say stupid things,

1:05:31 > 1:05:34I haven't seen his life crumble because of it.

1:05:34 > 1:05:39It would be pretty scary, Lemmy completely sober,

1:05:39 > 1:05:41and on you, man!

1:05:41 > 1:05:44By the law of average, he should have been dead.

1:05:44 > 1:05:48I used to hit it really hard, but he's just... I don't know.

1:05:48 > 1:05:51He's made of fucking iron.

1:05:53 > 1:05:56I don't really want to advertise all that.

1:05:56 > 1:05:58I don't want kids to take any drugs cos of me.

1:06:00 > 1:06:02I don't want them to stay off drugs cos of me, either,

1:06:02 > 1:06:06but I don't want to advertise a lifestyle that killed a lot of my friends.

1:06:07 > 1:06:08OK?

1:06:09 > 1:06:12Here's another question for Lemmy. Jose.

1:06:12 > 1:06:13- 'Yeah. Lemmy?'- Yeah.

1:06:13 > 1:06:15'What do you credit to your longevity?

1:06:15 > 1:06:19'You drink, smoke, party a lot. I want to know what you credit to it.'

1:06:19 > 1:06:22Not dying! That's the secret.

1:06:22 > 1:06:25That's the secret of survival, not dying!

1:06:25 > 1:06:26I don't know, you know.

1:06:26 > 1:06:30- I was lucky cos a lot of my friends didn't make it, you know?- Yeah.

1:06:30 > 1:06:35And I did. I never did heroin, you see. That was the one.

1:06:35 > 1:06:37I never saw anybody die on anything else.

1:06:37 > 1:06:39When I was about 17-years-old...

1:06:41 > 1:06:43..he said to me,

1:06:43 > 1:06:45"Son, promise me that when you grow up,

1:06:47 > 1:06:50"you know, don't do coke.

1:06:50 > 1:06:52"Please, just don't do coke."

1:06:52 > 1:06:54And I was like, "OK, yeah".

1:06:54 > 1:06:57And he says, "Just do speed. It's much better for you!"

1:07:02 > 1:07:06When you think back in it, Motorhead was the original thrash band.

1:07:06 > 1:07:08Everything about them.

1:07:08 > 1:07:11They played fast, it was gnarly, it was a little loose,

1:07:11 > 1:07:13it had some punk rock, it had metal,

1:07:13 > 1:07:17it had all the elements that we then later perfected and refined

1:07:17 > 1:07:22and then we became part of the Big Four of thrash metal.

1:07:26 > 1:07:29You could definitely say, without Motorhead, there's no Metallica,

1:07:29 > 1:07:32there's no Anthrax, there's no Megadeath, probably no Slayer.

1:07:32 > 1:07:36There could have been those bands, like Anthrax lite or something.

1:07:46 > 1:07:50Man, influenced me big time, as a bass player. Big, big, bit time

1:07:50 > 1:07:53because of the levels of distortion.

1:07:53 > 1:07:56The speed of it all, like, the power of it all

1:07:56 > 1:07:58and the relentlessness of it.

1:07:58 > 1:08:01I can't even begin to say how much of an influence

1:08:01 > 1:08:03Motorhead have been on us,

1:08:03 > 1:08:07on a bunch of different levels.

1:08:07 > 1:08:10I'll give you a list of things that were lifted from Lemmy.

1:08:10 > 1:08:13- Musical level.- Singing style.

1:08:13 > 1:08:18You know, lyric phrasing, the simplicity, the rhyming. The scheme of it all.

1:08:18 > 1:08:19Attitude.

1:08:19 > 1:08:21Trying to be as cool as Lemmy.

1:08:21 > 1:08:25Motivation and perseverance. Er... The look.

1:08:25 > 1:08:28I mean, his facial hair, in the early days for me,

1:08:28 > 1:08:29was certainly all about that.

1:08:29 > 1:08:31The bullet belt, come on!

1:08:31 > 1:08:34Lemmy, to me, is not just an inspiration,

1:08:34 > 1:08:39but I think he's kind of like the OK sign. You know?

1:08:39 > 1:08:42It's OK to go this far, it's OK to do this.

1:08:42 > 1:08:46It's like he's kicked the door open for a lot of bands

1:08:46 > 1:08:48that were feeling like they wanted more.

1:08:51 > 1:08:54HE PLAYS RIFF FROM ACE OF SPADES

1:08:54 > 1:08:56ATTEMPTS HIGHPITCHED VOCALS

1:08:56 > 1:08:59- COUGHS - I can't sing that bit.

1:08:59 > 1:09:01I'm like the opposite.

1:09:02 > 1:09:04I have to sing down here.

1:09:04 > 1:09:05You like it lower?

1:09:05 > 1:09:06Yeah.

1:09:08 > 1:09:12- SCOTTISH ACCENT:- # You take the high mic and I'll take the low mic... #

1:09:37 > 1:09:41- What's up, motherfuckers?- Hello, sir. Good to see you, brother.

1:09:41 > 1:09:43Good to see you too.

1:09:43 > 1:09:46- Hey, man. What's happening? - Hey, Lemmy. How you doing, bro?

1:09:46 > 1:09:48Good.

1:09:50 > 1:09:54What do you want to do? I'll do the first one and you do the second one?

1:09:54 > 1:09:57- Yeah.- Do the third one together or something?- Sure.- Or one each?

1:09:57 > 1:09:59You do the high harmony?

1:09:59 > 1:10:03No. Not any more, no!

1:10:03 > 1:10:06I'll grab your balls and you go, "Ahhhh!"

1:10:06 > 1:10:08That's the theory, yeah!

1:10:08 > 1:10:11What ending do you have for Damage Case?

1:10:11 > 1:10:14He stops and I stop and then...

1:10:14 > 1:10:17- And then you're the last.... - How?

1:10:17 > 1:10:22Don't be under any illusion that we know what we're doing.

1:10:22 > 1:10:24Let's see what happens, let's have fun with it.

1:10:24 > 1:10:27It's a freak-out! It goes, one, two, three...

1:10:48 > 1:10:50Is it time to go home yet?

1:10:50 > 1:10:52AUDIENCE: No!

1:10:52 > 1:10:53I didn't think so.

1:10:56 > 1:11:02You can see there's an extra amp up on stage here.

1:11:02 > 1:11:05We have the distinct pleasure

1:11:05 > 1:11:08of inviting on stage with us

1:11:08 > 1:11:11one of our all-time idols.

1:11:11 > 1:11:14And I know the reason

1:11:14 > 1:11:18that Lars is so into music...right?

1:11:18 > 1:11:22He followed him around, pestered him forever,

1:11:22 > 1:11:24I think he even threw up on him,

1:11:24 > 1:11:26something like that.

1:11:28 > 1:11:31Lars is the biggest Motorhead fan on the planet.

1:11:34 > 1:11:38And here's the godfather of heavy metal.

1:11:38 > 1:11:43From Motorhead, the one and only Lemmy Kilmister!

1:11:43 > 1:11:45CHEERING

1:11:53 > 1:11:57Lemmy, Lemmy, Lemmy, Lemmy!

1:11:57 > 1:12:00CROWD: Lemmy! Lemmy! Lemmy! Lemmy!

1:12:00 > 1:12:03All right.

1:12:20 > 1:12:23# Hey, babe, don't act so scared

1:12:23 > 1:12:26# All I want is some special care

1:12:26 > 1:12:29# On the run from some institution

1:12:29 > 1:12:31# All I need's a little consolation

1:12:31 > 1:12:34# And I can tell by his face

1:12:34 > 1:12:37# I'm all over the place

1:12:37 > 1:12:40# Put me inside this place

1:12:40 > 1:12:42# Move over for a damaged case

1:12:48 > 1:12:51# Hey, baby, don't act so scared

1:12:51 > 1:12:53# All I want is some special care

1:12:53 > 1:12:56# I ain't lookin' to victimise you

1:12:56 > 1:12:59# All I want to do is tantalise you

1:12:59 > 1:13:01# And I can tell by your face

1:13:01 > 1:13:04# That I'm all over the place

1:13:04 > 1:13:07# I'm a total disgrace

1:13:07 > 1:13:09# Move over for a damaged case

1:13:14 > 1:13:15# Move over!

1:13:52 > 1:13:55# Hey, babe, don't turn away

1:13:55 > 1:13:57# I'm here tomorrow, gone today

1:13:57 > 1:14:00# I ain't lookin' to victimise you

1:14:00 > 1:14:03# All I want to do is tantalise you

1:14:03 > 1:14:06# I can tell by your face

1:14:06 > 1:14:09# I'm all over the place

1:14:09 > 1:14:11# I'm all over the place

1:14:11 > 1:14:14# Move over for a damaged case

1:15:07 > 1:15:08# Damaged case! #

1:15:09 > 1:15:13CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

1:15:16 > 1:15:18Good job, man.

1:15:20 > 1:15:24Thanks. Good job, good job.

1:15:24 > 1:15:26Yeah!

1:15:30 > 1:15:33Lemmy! Lemmy! Lemmy!

1:15:33 > 1:15:36AUDIENCE: Lemmy! Lemmy! Lemmy!

1:15:38 > 1:15:42TV: 'Oh, Stacey, you dropped your pom-pom in the water.

1:15:42 > 1:15:45- 'I'll get it for you.' - 'I'll come with you'.- 'Me too'.

1:15:45 > 1:15:48'Wait a minute, we don't want to get our sweaters all wet.

1:15:48 > 1:15:51'Better take 'em off. Splash fight!'

1:16:16 > 1:16:20At one point, I hadn't seen Lemmy or the boys for a decade or whatever,

1:16:20 > 1:16:24and I wanted to do a show with them. And surprise, surprise,

1:16:24 > 1:16:28the same dudes are on the crew as when I toured with them in the '80s.

1:16:28 > 1:16:31And here it's the '90s and they go "Hey, how are you doing?"

1:16:31 > 1:16:33I'm like "holy crap". But this is Lemmy.

1:16:35 > 1:16:38It was just like a big family thing, without getting too cliched.

1:16:38 > 1:16:41We love each other, we hate each other,

1:16:41 > 1:16:43we love to hate each other.

1:16:43 > 1:16:45We've done a tour, gone home, come back.

1:16:45 > 1:16:48The first time you see them again, it just feels tight.

1:16:48 > 1:16:53There's not that band/group thing with this lot, they're just friends.

1:16:58 > 1:17:01It's fucking great. What other job can you get paid

1:17:01 > 1:17:03for travelling around the world,

1:17:03 > 1:17:07meeting great fucking amazing people and seeing Motorhead every night?

1:17:27 > 1:17:31# Happy birthday to you

1:17:31 > 1:17:35# Happy birthday to you

1:17:35 > 1:17:39# Happy birthday, dear Roger

1:17:39 > 1:17:43# Happy birthday to you! #

1:17:45 > 1:17:47Eat your cake!

1:17:47 > 1:17:50A year older now.

1:17:51 > 1:17:54What I've seen in rock'n'roll bands that I've been in,

1:17:54 > 1:17:56yeah, the money comes into play

1:17:56 > 1:17:57and then attitudes change

1:17:57 > 1:18:00and they fucking want to act like a rock star.

1:18:00 > 1:18:05Motorhead doesn't do that. Motorhead's in it for the music.

1:18:05 > 1:18:07Motorhead's in it for the fans.

1:18:08 > 1:18:11# Well, we came up from the gutter

1:18:11 > 1:18:14# Wrong side of the tracks... #

1:18:16 > 1:18:18They still have the goal, you know,

1:18:18 > 1:18:20to move this band forward

1:18:20 > 1:18:25and to sound the best and be able to, you know, write good records.

1:18:25 > 1:18:28There's no faking going on here.

1:18:28 > 1:18:31I used to say there's not a fake bone in Lem's body,

1:18:31 > 1:18:34and that really is true.

1:18:34 > 1:18:37I could say the same for Phil and myself as well.

1:18:37 > 1:18:43We're not faking through year after year, you know, pretending,

1:18:43 > 1:18:48and I think that is reflecting out, you know.

1:18:48 > 1:18:51It's like an aura around us, I suppose.

1:19:00 > 1:19:03We've had quite a few people tell us that our music got them

1:19:03 > 1:19:06through particularly low times in their lives.

1:19:06 > 1:19:08It does something to us when we play.

1:19:08 > 1:19:10For some reason, it's great.

1:19:10 > 1:19:13I don't know what it is we do, but it gives a good feeling.

1:19:13 > 1:19:15I guess it's the same for the fans.

1:19:29 > 1:19:31I asked him for his autograph when I was 12.

1:19:31 > 1:19:34He came to my home town with Hawkwind, and he was the only one

1:19:34 > 1:19:36that came out to sign autographs.

1:19:36 > 1:19:38If somebody had said then that I'd be in a band

1:19:38 > 1:19:42with this guy for a quarter of a century, a big rock band,

1:19:42 > 1:19:44I'd have said, "Come on".

1:19:44 > 1:19:46It's a good story to tell,

1:19:46 > 1:19:48because it's inspiring. Anything can happen.

1:19:48 > 1:19:52MUSIC DROWNS LYRICS

1:19:55 > 1:19:57MUSIC STOPS

1:19:57 > 1:19:59Fucking microphone. What's the point?

1:19:59 > 1:20:00FEEDBACK WHINE

1:20:00 > 1:20:01Listen to it.

1:20:01 > 1:20:04Didn't you know it was doing that all afternoon?

1:20:04 > 1:20:06Has nobody tested it before?

1:20:06 > 1:20:09I've done a few gigs with Motorhead

1:20:09 > 1:20:10and done a sound check with him.

1:20:10 > 1:20:13It's so fucking loud, you really can't do much.

1:20:13 > 1:20:16So there's a lot of yelling going on.

1:20:16 > 1:20:20One! Two! Three!

1:20:20 > 1:20:23- Perfect, just a bit more. - An ear doctor would be amazed

1:20:23 > 1:20:25at just how well Lemmy can hear,

1:20:25 > 1:20:28considering the abuse he gives his ears.

1:20:28 > 1:20:30There's one thing about Lemmy -

1:20:30 > 1:20:33he'll always hear you if you offer him a drink.

1:20:33 > 1:20:35Even if you walk up behind him.

1:20:39 > 1:20:42The loudest band in the world in the Guinness Book of Records.

1:20:42 > 1:20:44That's what people want.

1:20:44 > 1:20:47They want it loud, they want it fast. They want it...Lemmy.

1:20:47 > 1:20:50- Is it loud enough? - CROWD: No!

1:20:50 > 1:20:53- You want it louder?- Yes! - Are you sure about this?

1:20:53 > 1:20:57This is called Killers.

1:21:08 > 1:21:12I remember when we went in to record Power, Corruption And Lies

1:21:12 > 1:21:14in Britannia Row in Islington in London.

1:21:14 > 1:21:19And the people that had been in before us hadn't -

1:21:19 > 1:21:23you're supposed to level the desk when you leave.

1:21:23 > 1:21:27You take the strip off, and you level the desk, put it back to how it was.

1:21:27 > 1:21:30And they hadn't done it, presumably because it was late

1:21:30 > 1:21:31when they finished.

1:21:31 > 1:21:34And I said, "Rotten fuckers. Who was it?"

1:21:34 > 1:21:37They went, "It was Motorhead". I was like "Oh, fucking great!"

1:21:37 > 1:21:41So we put my bass through his channels on the desk,

1:21:41 > 1:21:43and it sounded shit.

1:21:50 > 1:21:53# Another time, another place Another girl... #

1:21:53 > 1:21:56When I think of Motorhead, I don't think subtlety.

1:21:56 > 1:21:58It makes me think of a door blown open.

1:21:58 > 1:22:03His voice is a rasp. It's like eating fucking nails.

1:22:03 > 1:22:06It's kind of more like a wind coming at you.

1:22:06 > 1:22:09It's like someone coming up behind me and spanking my ears.

1:22:09 > 1:22:11Everything starts going grainy.

1:22:11 > 1:22:15It's like being in a sandstorm, basically, that's it.

1:22:15 > 1:22:18It's the aural equivalent of being in a sandstorm, I would say.

1:22:18 > 1:22:21When the lights go down and that motherfucker hits the stage

1:22:21 > 1:22:26and he blows the cigarette out of his mouth, it's game over, man.

1:22:26 > 1:22:29You could drag anybody to a Motorhead show, and they're gonna go...

1:22:29 > 1:22:32INTRO: "Ace Of Spades"

1:22:41 > 1:22:44# If you like to gamble, I'm your man

1:22:44 > 1:22:49# Win some, lose some It's all the same to me

1:22:55 > 1:22:59# The pleasure is to play Makes no difference what you say

1:23:02 > 1:23:07# I don't share your greed, the only card I need is the ace of spades

1:23:07 > 1:23:09# The ace of spades

1:23:12 > 1:23:15# Going for the higher one Dancing with the devil

1:23:15 > 1:23:19# Going with the flow It's all a game to me

1:23:26 > 1:23:31# Seven or eleven Snake eyes watching you

1:23:33 > 1:23:37# Double up or quit, double stake or split, the ace of spades

1:23:37 > 1:23:39# The ace of spades

1:23:46 > 1:23:50# You know I'm born to lose and gambling's for fools

1:23:50 > 1:23:54# But that's the way I like it, baby, I don't want to live forever

1:24:27 > 1:24:29# Pushing up the ante

1:24:29 > 1:24:30# I know you want to see me

1:24:30 > 1:24:34# Read 'em and weep the dead man's hand again

1:24:41 > 1:24:44# I see it in your eyes Take one look and die

1:24:48 > 1:24:52# The only thing you see, you know it's gonna be the ace of spades

1:24:52 > 1:24:54# The ace of spades. #

1:25:11 > 1:25:13CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

1:25:13 > 1:25:15Thank you kindly.

1:26:02 > 1:26:06TV: '..Next election, I'm gonna run against you, and I'm gonna win.'

1:26:06 > 1:26:09'All right, Mrs Griffin. You want to take me on? Fine.

1:26:09 > 1:26:12- 'But if you plan to beat me, you'll have to...'- 'What is it?'

1:26:12 > 1:26:15'A bee just flew in through the window. Don't move.'

1:26:17 > 1:26:19'Hmm, now look who's mayor.

1:26:19 > 1:26:22'First order of business - free honey for everyone!

1:26:22 > 1:26:26'Yay, Mayor Bee, Mayor Bee, Mayor Bee - ow! Oh, done stung myself.'

1:26:34 > 1:26:37# Lucky there's a family guy

1:26:37 > 1:26:40# Lucky there's a man who positively can do

1:26:40 > 1:26:43# All the things that make us Laugh and cry

1:26:43 > 1:26:49# He's...a...fam...ily...guy! #

1:27:07 > 1:27:10Everything about Lemmy's playing sets him apart

1:27:10 > 1:27:14from other bass players, or for that matter any other musicians.

1:27:14 > 1:27:18The biggest thing is the Rickenbacker and the Marshalls.

1:27:19 > 1:27:23That's the sound I've never heard anybody create on bass.

1:27:23 > 1:27:27And he plays it a lot like some heavy metal guitar players.

1:27:27 > 1:27:31He doesn't play guitar on bass, but it almost sounds like a guitar.

1:27:33 > 1:27:36The basic difference is that most bass players sound like this.

1:27:41 > 1:27:42Whereas I...

1:27:48 > 1:27:50..sound quite different.

1:27:50 > 1:27:53AMPLIFIED SOUND

1:28:31 > 1:28:32Like that.

1:28:32 > 1:28:37I always wanted that sound, but I didn't necessarily know it then.

1:28:37 > 1:28:39It evolves, you know.

1:28:39 > 1:28:40- What would you say, Tim? - What's that?

1:28:40 > 1:28:44How would you say my bass playing encapsulates my personality

1:28:44 > 1:28:49and my outlook on life generally, in the modern 21st century?

1:28:49 > 1:28:52- The phrase "hammer and tongs" comes to mind.- Really?- Yeah.

1:28:52 > 1:28:56- Not a hammer, an anvil. - Anvil and tongs.

1:28:56 > 1:28:59And hammer. Stuff like that.

1:28:59 > 1:29:00Very hard.

1:29:00 > 1:29:05BOTH TALK AT ONCE

1:29:05 > 1:29:09Actually, he talks one thing that's in one ear and out the other.

1:29:09 > 1:29:13And nobody ever fucking understands a thing he's saying.

1:29:13 > 1:29:16Actually, we're two geezers trying to get along backstage.

1:29:16 > 1:29:19- And everything like that.- And things like that.- Or something else.

1:29:19 > 1:29:22Americans usually have a nervous breakdown around now.

1:29:28 > 1:29:31He's dead, isn't he?

1:29:31 > 1:29:33How do you sell a deaf guy a frog?

1:29:33 > 1:29:34How?

1:29:34 > 1:29:36DO YOU WANT TO BUY A FROG?

1:29:45 > 1:29:47Is it still as fun as it used to be

1:29:47 > 1:29:50to go around the world and play concerts?

1:29:50 > 1:29:55Yeah, you know, it's a great job. I recommend it.

1:29:55 > 1:29:59It's almost as good as being a TV interviewer.

1:29:59 > 1:30:03- Are there a lot of groupies backstage?- Do you see any?

1:30:03 > 1:30:06What makes you the proudest in your career?

1:30:08 > 1:30:09Survival, I think.

1:30:09 > 1:30:11Every year that goes by, I get a bit prouder,

1:30:11 > 1:30:14because we've proved that we weren't the trash band

1:30:14 > 1:30:17that they said we were originally.

1:30:17 > 1:30:19And every year we've survived

1:30:19 > 1:30:23proves it a little bit more, you know.

1:30:23 > 1:30:25You know, like that.

1:30:25 > 1:30:29What keeps you going for 30 years? What keeps you going and going?

1:30:29 > 1:30:33You have a dream when you're a kid.

1:30:33 > 1:30:37And my dream came true, so why stop it?

1:30:40 > 1:30:44Until 2047. Then I might slow down a bit.

1:30:44 > 1:30:46It might be 2048, I don't know.

1:30:49 > 1:30:52I love everything about Lemmy. The music, fucking everything.

1:30:52 > 1:30:55There's nothing not to like about Motorhead.

1:30:55 > 1:30:57It's a band that's got it all.

1:30:57 > 1:30:59They're hardcore, a proper hardcore band.

1:30:59 > 1:31:03They don't like sax and all that shit, they're excellent.

1:31:03 > 1:31:06They're full on, they've always been full on.

1:31:06 > 1:31:08Motorhead set the standard for all the others to follow.

1:31:08 > 1:31:11Every time you see 'em live, they make you deaf.

1:31:11 > 1:31:15I don't have to listen to my wife.

1:31:15 > 1:31:20For about five days out of every year, my wife is totally ignored.

1:31:20 > 1:31:23"Oh, sorry, darling, I can't hear you. I can't hear you.

1:31:23 > 1:31:25"Sorry, I just can't hear you".

1:31:25 > 1:31:28They've made me stone deaf forever!

1:31:38 > 1:31:41# Rock'n'roll will save your soul And I got it

1:31:41 > 1:31:44# Give it to me loud and free

1:31:44 > 1:31:46# Don't knock it

1:31:46 > 1:31:49# Let me hear till the end of time

1:31:49 > 1:31:51# It's the only way

1:31:51 > 1:31:54# Send shivers up and down your spine

1:31:54 > 1:31:55# You can't stop it

1:31:55 > 1:31:59# I'm tellin' you one more time

1:31:59 > 1:32:03# It ain't no crime Rock it

1:32:06 > 1:32:08# It's the only way to fly

1:32:08 > 1:32:10# I gotta have it

1:32:10 > 1:32:13# Break through, gonna break you too

1:32:13 > 1:32:15# You better grab it

1:32:15 > 1:32:18# Let me hear it till the end of time

1:32:18 > 1:32:19# It's the only way

1:32:19 > 1:32:23# It'll stop you on a dime

1:32:23 > 1:32:27# You can't stop it I'm telling you one more time

1:32:27 > 1:32:29# It ain't no crime

1:32:29 > 1:32:31# Rock it

1:33:19 > 1:33:22# Rock'n'roll music gonna stop the world

1:33:22 > 1:33:24# Can't lose it

1:33:24 > 1:33:29# It'll make your toenails curl You can't defuse it

1:33:29 > 1:33:31# Let me hear it all the time

1:33:31 > 1:33:34# It's the only way

1:33:34 > 1:33:36# Gonna make you feel all right

1:33:36 > 1:33:39# You can't excuse it

1:33:39 > 1:33:41# I'm telling you one more time

1:33:41 > 1:33:44# It ain't no crime Rock it

1:33:46 > 1:33:48# Rock it Rock it... #

1:34:11 > 1:34:13That's all right.

1:34:13 > 1:34:17It's the biggest thing that's ever happened to me.

1:34:17 > 1:34:19It's huge. I love that guy.

1:34:19 > 1:34:23- He's so much nicer than I thought he would be.- Why's that?

1:34:23 > 1:34:25Oh, he's really humble.

1:34:25 > 1:34:27I thought he would be like, "I don't give a shit".

1:34:27 > 1:34:32But when I said "Your music really means something to me,"

1:34:32 > 1:34:34he looked at me and said, "Thank you."

1:34:34 > 1:34:36That really means something to me.

1:34:45 > 1:34:47If you look at him, he's probably very intimidating,

1:34:47 > 1:34:49but this is one of the nicest guys you could ever meet.

1:34:49 > 1:34:53There's so many people that hit him for stuff,

1:34:53 > 1:34:54and just look at him.

1:34:54 > 1:34:57Most people in his position would not pay attention

1:34:57 > 1:35:01to these things. This is a guy who'd go out of his way to help anybody.

1:35:01 > 1:35:02You just see it in his heart.

1:35:02 > 1:35:06When I was married before and we were all on the road together,

1:35:06 > 1:35:12my husband at the time was from Indiana, this redneck kid,

1:35:12 > 1:35:15idolised Lemmy. Huge Motorhead fan.

1:35:15 > 1:35:17So we were on tour with Motorhead,

1:35:17 > 1:35:21and me and Lemmy immediately had this connection,

1:35:21 > 1:35:24and my marriage was heavily on the rocks.

1:35:27 > 1:35:30Lemmy...my husband wouldn't talk to him or anything,

1:35:30 > 1:35:32and Lemmy would just come up

1:35:32 > 1:35:34with T-shirts and be like "Hey, Matt", you know?

1:35:34 > 1:35:39And when we actually separated, he was telling all these people

1:35:39 > 1:35:41in the town we're from, Athens, Georgia,

1:35:41 > 1:35:42a very small town,

1:35:42 > 1:35:46that me and Lemmy were having this affair, blah, blah, blah.

1:35:46 > 1:35:50Eight months later, he died.

1:35:50 > 1:35:52But when I was going through

1:35:52 > 1:35:55all of his things that his mother gave me,

1:35:55 > 1:35:59I found a letter from Lemmy, and he had written him a letter

1:35:59 > 1:36:05saying, you know, "I know at one point, you really liked my band,

1:36:05 > 1:36:08"and just so that you know for the record,

1:36:08 > 1:36:10"Corey and I are really good friends.

1:36:10 > 1:36:13"There's mutual love and respect there.

1:36:13 > 1:36:16"She did nothing but talk about how much she loved you

1:36:16 > 1:36:21"and I would never cross that line, I'm not that type of man."

1:36:21 > 1:36:24And it was just so cute, because when you read the letter,

1:36:24 > 1:36:28it was like, "I know that at one time, you liked me and my band,"

1:36:28 > 1:36:30and it's Lemmy and fucking Motorhead.

1:36:30 > 1:36:35It's so bizarre, but he wrote this beautiful letter to him,

1:36:35 > 1:36:39with the red candle wax and the stamp on the back,

1:36:39 > 1:36:40and sent it to him, you know?

1:36:40 > 1:36:42That type of shit, man.

1:36:42 > 1:36:46It's like, he's a very honourable,

1:36:46 > 1:36:49generous, good, good man.

1:36:49 > 1:36:52He's very much a complex emotional person,

1:36:52 > 1:36:56but there is a kind of distance that he's purposefully put in.

1:36:56 > 1:36:58Do you know what I mean?

1:36:58 > 1:37:03I think a lot of that, from what he tells me, is from his youth.

1:37:05 > 1:37:10He's always had to look out for himself, and he's realised

1:37:10 > 1:37:14that 90% of the time, the only person he can depend on is himself.

1:37:14 > 1:37:17Tell me about the people who've been most important in your life?

1:37:17 > 1:37:21My mother, obviously, because she brought me up on her own.

1:37:21 > 1:37:25And my granny, for filling in during the day. They were really important.

1:37:26 > 1:37:29They really tainted my outlook on things,

1:37:29 > 1:37:36because being brought up by two women is different from having the big, heavy husband in the house.

1:37:36 > 1:37:39So I never got the, "Let's go out and kill some small furry animals."

1:37:39 > 1:37:42I never had that shit going on.

1:37:42 > 1:37:43I just never missed a father

1:37:43 > 1:37:46because I never had one, you know, so I didn't care.

1:37:46 > 1:37:50He was just a miserable little dickhead with glasses,

1:37:50 > 1:37:52and all he ever did for me was walk out on me.

1:37:52 > 1:37:56I think I understand women a lot better than some guys do,

1:37:56 > 1:37:59because women want the same things as guys do,

1:37:59 > 1:38:01they just don't want them for as long.

1:38:01 > 1:38:06Guys want the quick fuck in the alley all their lives,

1:38:06 > 1:38:09whereas girls get tired of that pretty quick. They want security,

1:38:09 > 1:38:11meaning you have to give up everything

1:38:11 > 1:38:13that might be a risk to that security,

1:38:13 > 1:38:15which is why I'm not married.

1:38:15 > 1:38:19My dad once went out with a woman that he really fell in love with

1:38:19 > 1:38:21when he was very young. He must have been about 17.

1:38:21 > 1:38:28And...this girl died of a heroin overdose.

1:38:28 > 1:38:31My dad is anti-heroin.

1:38:31 > 1:38:35He will not have anything to do with someone who is on smack.

1:38:35 > 1:38:38But I think it's because of this girl,

1:38:38 > 1:38:41because he really loved this girl.

1:38:41 > 1:38:46And he found her in the bathtub. He found her dead in the tub.

1:38:46 > 1:38:51And I think that, as I can recall,

1:38:51 > 1:38:55he sat in an armchair for, like, three days.

1:38:55 > 1:38:59He hasn't been able to feel the same way about any other woman

1:38:59 > 1:39:00since that woman.

1:39:00 > 1:39:07And...that might be a part of why he is the way he is.

1:39:07 > 1:39:08I don't miss her any more,

1:39:08 > 1:39:12it's been a long time. 1973. That's a long enough time.

1:39:12 > 1:39:17I can't even...some of the time, you can't even picture her face.

1:39:17 > 1:39:20She was all right. But, you know,

1:39:20 > 1:39:25she died young and left a beautiful corpse. When they do that,

1:39:25 > 1:39:28it's easier to think they were the one. She probably wasn't.

1:39:28 > 1:39:33She was a...she was a mouthy little bitch as well.

1:39:33 > 1:39:35But she was great at the same time.

1:39:35 > 1:39:38For a woman to be really interesting,

1:39:38 > 1:39:41she's got to be something of a bitch, surely?

1:39:41 > 1:39:45Somebody saying yes all the time, that's no fucking good, is it?

1:39:45 > 1:39:48You want somebody who gives you a run for your money.

1:39:48 > 1:39:52No relationship can survive a guy or a girl being in a rock band.

1:39:52 > 1:39:55Unless the other one is also in a rock band,

1:39:55 > 1:39:57and even then it's difficult.

1:39:57 > 1:40:00You're away for six or seven months of the year.

1:40:00 > 1:40:01Nobody will stand for that.

1:40:01 > 1:40:04Either they go with you, which doesn't work, or they sit at home

1:40:04 > 1:40:08and have affairs or take care of the kids, which builds up resentment,

1:40:08 > 1:40:12because they think you're having a whale of a time on the road.

1:40:12 > 1:40:15It can't work. You have to make up your mind between rock and roll

1:40:15 > 1:40:19or your beloved one. Sex only lasts for half an hour at the very top.

1:40:19 > 1:40:23A rock and roll set lasts for an hour and a half,

1:40:23 > 1:40:26so I think we've got that one sorted out.

1:40:28 > 1:40:31Do you ever stop filming?

1:40:31 > 1:40:32Huh?

1:40:40 > 1:40:43It's a pity you haven't got Smell-O-Vision.

1:40:52 > 1:40:54# Here's a little song I wrote

1:40:54 > 1:40:57# Might want to sing it note for note

1:40:57 > 1:40:58# Don't worry

1:41:00 > 1:41:03# Be happy # Don't worry, be happy now

1:41:03 > 1:41:07# Whoo-oo-oo

1:41:07 > 1:41:08# Don't worry

1:41:08 > 1:41:10# Whoo-oo-oo

1:41:10 > 1:41:11# Be happy

1:41:11 > 1:41:13# Whoo-oo-oo

1:41:13 > 1:41:15# Don't worry, be happy. #

1:41:22 > 1:41:27# Well, if I'm in heaven or if I'm in hell

1:41:27 > 1:41:33# Don't matter to me because I'm under your spell

1:41:33 > 1:41:37# I'm playing the ace Trying to make you see

1:41:38 > 1:41:40# Don't matter to me

1:41:43 > 1:41:46# I'm over my head

1:41:46 > 1:41:51# And I'm driving for sure Don't matter to me

1:41:51 > 1:41:53# Like I told you before

1:41:53 > 1:41:56# I'll sink like a stone

1:41:56 > 1:42:01# If you leave me be Don't matter to me

1:42:06 > 1:42:09# Babe, you know I love you

1:42:09 > 1:42:12# But you can break my heart

1:42:12 > 1:42:17# I want to be here with you But you're tearing me apart

1:42:17 > 1:42:20# I wanted to be your only one

1:42:20 > 1:42:23# I want you to be mine

1:42:23 > 1:42:26# But if you're going to be this way

1:42:26 > 1:42:29# I just don't have the time So now if I stay

1:42:31 > 1:42:33# Or if I should go

1:42:33 > 1:42:37# Don't matter to me if I can't see you no more

1:42:38 > 1:42:41# If you shoot up my lights

1:42:41 > 1:42:44# Black night's where I'll be

1:42:44 > 1:42:46# It don't matter to me... #

1:43:12 > 1:43:14I just can imagine the party,

1:43:14 > 1:43:18the party for everybody to celebrate his life some day is going to be...

1:43:18 > 1:43:21like a head of state.

1:43:21 > 1:43:25I think he'll be sorely missed throughout the world when he goes.

1:43:25 > 1:43:29But then, I think the way it'll be and the way he would want it,

1:43:29 > 1:43:31there's not going to be many tears shed,

1:43:31 > 1:43:34but mainly what fucking great times we had.

1:43:34 > 1:43:37Do you know what I mean? It's going to be one of those,

1:43:37 > 1:43:41a sad day but also a day where everybody will get together

1:43:41 > 1:43:45and talk about the great fucking times they had with that man and his music.

1:43:45 > 1:43:48I don't know how old he is and I don't care,

1:43:48 > 1:43:49he could be 100 years old.

1:43:49 > 1:43:51The fact that he's up there still doing it

1:43:51 > 1:43:53is an absolute inspiration for us.

1:43:53 > 1:43:58We got nothing to complain about and everything to look forward to.

1:44:05 > 1:44:09This is what I am. This is what I do.

1:44:09 > 1:44:13This is what I'm supposed to do. Right here.

1:44:13 > 1:44:19I'm supposed to be backstage, waiting to go on.

1:44:19 > 1:44:22If your life was a movie, how would you want it to end?

1:44:24 > 1:44:27It should end with a clap of thunder

1:44:27 > 1:44:30and me vanishing off the top of a mountain,

1:44:30 > 1:44:36leaving behind a plaque which says "Fooled you, again". Yeah!

1:44:36 > 1:44:40Something along those lines. But of course, we can't afford the mountain

1:44:40 > 1:44:43and we can't afford the flash powder

1:44:43 > 1:44:46and we can't get the cameras up the slope, right, so there you go.

1:44:46 > 1:44:48You can't have everything, can you?

1:44:50 > 1:44:51Any regrets?

1:44:51 > 1:44:55None. Life's too short.

1:44:59 > 1:45:00CROWD: Motorhead!

1:45:00 > 1:45:03Motorhead! Motorhead!

1:45:15 > 1:45:18I would like to say that you're one of the best fucking crowds

1:45:18 > 1:45:20we ever played for.

1:45:20 > 1:45:22Thank you.

1:45:24 > 1:45:25Don't forget us.

1:45:25 > 1:45:30We are Motorhead! And we play rock'n'roll!

1:45:52 > 1:45:55# The only way to feel the noise is when it's good and loud

1:45:55 > 1:45:58# So good, I can't believe it Screaming with the crowd

1:45:59 > 1:46:03# Don't sweat it Get it back to you

1:46:06 > 1:46:10# Don't sweat it Get it back to you

1:46:12 > 1:46:14# Overkill

1:46:14 > 1:46:16# Overkill

1:46:16 > 1:46:18# Overkill

1:46:25 > 1:46:28# On your feet, you feel the beat It goes straight to your spine

1:46:28 > 1:46:33# Shake your head, you must be dead If it don't make you fly

1:46:33 > 1:46:37# Don't sweat it Get it back to you

1:46:39 > 1:46:43# Don't sweat it Get it back to you

1:46:47 > 1:46:50# Overkill Overkill

1:46:50 > 1:46:52# Overkill

1:47:13 > 1:47:16# You know your body's made to move You feel it in your guts

1:47:16 > 1:47:19# Rock 'n' roll ain't worth the name If it don't make you strut

1:47:19 > 1:47:25# Don't sweat it Get it back to you

1:47:27 > 1:47:31# Don't sweat it Get it back to you

1:47:34 > 1:47:35# Overkill

1:47:37 > 1:47:38# Overkill. #

1:48:32 > 1:48:36INAUDIBLE

1:50:44 > 1:50:46All for one and all for another fucking year.

1:50:46 > 1:50:49Good one this year. Nice one.

1:50:49 > 1:50:52Now fuck off back to your dressing room.

1:50:53 > 1:50:56It was all right, this show, wasn't it?

1:51:02 > 1:51:03Bugger off, Greg.

1:51:03 > 1:51:06In the elevator? Give it a break. Oi!

1:51:06 > 1:51:08Go away.

1:51:08 > 1:51:09Fuck off with your cameras.

1:51:09 > 1:51:10Oh, there they are.

1:51:12 > 1:51:14What's the matter with you, pal?

1:51:14 > 1:51:16You want a mouthful of broken teeth or what?

1:51:16 > 1:51:20- Cheers, guys.- Cheers, man. Good to see you again.

1:51:23 > 1:51:26Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd