(Source:http://www.motorhead.ru/int20heavymetal.htm- Thanks Vampyre de luxe) School life

MB: Who would you say has had the biggest impact on your life and why?

LK: Probably the English teacher at my school. She made me interested in words, you know. Because without that, I would have never… I would have just been another moron down at the filling station, you know. It was a great thing that she did for me. Because she saw I was good at it. And she encouraged me. Which is a rare thing among teaching personnel these days, you know. She’d work alongside me and teach me things. I passed the matriculation level exam, the graduation exam, at the age of thirteen, you know. So I was always good at English. And that’s a great blessing, you know. Reading and writing is a great blessing, because in this country Quote
USA , half the people can’t read or write. It’s unbelievable. Fifty percent of this country is functioning illiterate. I mean, you’ve got no business being illiterate. You are the richest country in the world. How can they do that? They graduate people out of school illiterate.

(Source: Lemmy in his own words by Harry Shaw. Omnibus press) school/early days

"I was the only English kid in seven hundred Welsh. I didn't have any friends, either." 1996

"I was expelled from school, but I was the teacher's pet in English because I was very good at it. We had this lady teacher. I don't think it was sexual. She put me in this storeroom with the GCSE English paper when I was 13 and I passed it by 20 per cent." 1998

"I had a farm in Wales with two stallions bought for £34 which I'd broke in myself. Then I heard Little Richard, sold the horses and away I went." 1991

(Source: Classic Albums-Ace of Spades) Leaving Hawkwind

Lemmy and Dave Brock discuss Lemmy being fired from Hawkwind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7A5TIj6Bqg&feature=related

(Source: Q magazine) The Rockin' Vicars

"We used to play up in the North. We were huge. We could sell out the Bolton Locarno by ourselves. We wore Dog Collars and the Finnish national costume - the Lapp smock, royal blue with qrange and yellow felt stick-on stuff across and skin tight white jeans with lace-up flies, and reindeer skin boots. Seemed like a good idea at the time."

"Believe me, we made a lot of bread. We paid no tax, making £200 a week clear. I had two Jags and a Chevy - We had a speedboat on fucking Windermere. We were a class act; we had the first double bass-drums in England. And they still play on the cabaret circuit"

(Lemmy)

(Source: Lemmy the autobiography-White line fever.) Sam Gopal

"Then in '68, I wound up singing for Sam Gopal. He was half-Burmese, half Nepalese or something like that - I forget now. But he played tablas, which are impossible to amplify. They're too boomy, see - at least they were for the equipment of the time. He'd had a band previously called the Sam Gopal Dream, which had been on a show called 'Christmas on Earth' with Hendrix in December or '67. Some people think I played that gig, but I didn't. By the time I met up with Sam, he'd dropped the 'Dream' and was just going on as Sam Gopal, in suitably modest fashion!"



A review of the album Escalator can be found here http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/thebookofseth/106#

(Source: The Word Sept '08)

(Source: Lemmy the autobiography-White line fever.) EARLY DAYS



Even then! Me and cousin Caroline.



My mother explaining to me that I am a month premature and glad I wasn't an Aquarius

(Source: Lemmy the autobiography-White line fever.) EARLY DAYS



I saw ya! Note withered right arm!



Age 4½ Who needs teeth anyway? Ok, Gummy!

(Source: Lemmy the autobiography-White line fever.) EARLY DAYS



Me and Hicka - Hicka is the one with the bridle



'Monarch of the Glen'- This is me on Goldie when I worked at Hewitt's Riding school at Benlech on Anglesey, where we pulled the Girl Guides! Goldie had his own plans for the evening.



Me and my mate Krystof with our horses.

(Source:The Independant 15/10/05- Thanks Motörheadbanger9) Early years

At 15 Lemmy was expelled from school. When I ask why he raises a grubby index finger and points to a deep scar just above the knuckle. "You see that? I had cut my finger and it was taking ages to heal. I was up for two strokes of the cane from the headmaster, one on each hand. I said, 'Can I have them both on the right?' but he went straight for the left and whacked it. The whole thing burst open, blood everywhere. So I grabbed the cane off him and smacked him round the head with it. That showed the bastard."

His love of music came from his mother who is now 90. She used to play Hawaiian guitar alongside his uncle who played banjo. "She also taught me how to have good manners and be a decent person, and you can't ask for more than that." His stepfather, who was a washing machine engineer, got him a job as a lathe operator at the Hotpoint factory in Llandudno. At the time Lemmy thought he would eventually breed horses for a living "but then I heard Little Richard and that was it. Rock'n'roll came to me. I sold my two horses to a girls' school in Abergelly where they were spoiled rotten. I bet they died happy as clams."

During his teens the Beatles were his favourite band. "They would come on stage and you were just awestruck," he remembers. "They had that presence, which is very rare. Hendrix had it, Ozzy Osbourne has it to an extent. You've either got it or you haven't."

The complete interview can be found here