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Happy 65th Birthday Lemmy

All you morons getting ready to celebrate the birthday of supposed messiah Jesus Christ take notice, today is the birthday of Lemmy Kilmister. With Elvis gone, he's the rogue King of Rock and Roll. He doesn't experiement with it, alter it, or try to reinvent it, instead he embodies it and plays it louder than everyone els. Why do I love Lemmy? Because he's a hard rocking, hard living, no bullshit, true living legend. He hates Republicans, greedy rich fucks, and posers. He plays his music loud without apoliges. He lives his life as he dam well pleases and doesn't make up excusses or lie to hide it. He speaks his mind, and tells fuck heads to fuck off. He doesn't believe in Jesus, he doesn't believe in opression, he doesn't believe in lies. He's 100% himself and doesn't give a fuck who knows it.

Grap a bottle of Jack, turn the Motorhead up as loud as the dial goes, and give a hearty toast to Lemmy, the real deal this holiday season.

In honor of Lemmy, Muse-Zach has compiled some of our favorite Lemmy moments, begining with a pre-birthday interview he did yesterday for UK's Metro Magazine. Enjoy.
Happy 65th birthday. How are you celebrating?
I’m not. Celebrate being 65? Not me.
You’re known for your steady diet of Jack Daniel’s and Marlboro cigarettes. What kind of shape are you in?
I know. It’s amazing really. I’ve never done a day’s exercise in my life. I get a good workout onstage, I suppose.

Has a doctor looked at your liver lately?
Yeah, he said I had the liver of a newborn child.

Are you in bed after shows now or do the band still like a good party?
You don’t get a good party after the show usually because we’re working. We’re probably on the bus and on the way to the next show. If you drive at night, there’s no traffic – you get there a lot quicker. For a couple of hours after the show, we hang out. We get less female visitors than we used to.

You worked as Jimi Hendrix’s roadie. Did you learn from watching him?
I learned you can do anything onstage as long as you can carry it off, as long as you can back it up. You can do anything. You’ve never seen anything like it in your whole life. If you want to see a small taste of what he was like, Monterey Pop Music Festival is the one to watch.

Is it flattering to have such a big range of people, from Ozzy Osbourne to Jarvis Cocker, praising you?
Of course it’s flattering. People keep saying they’re surprised by that. They say they’re surprised if we do a slow song. Everyone’s always surprised and analysing. Everybody’s always surprised by something. It kills me. We’ve done tracks with no drums or guitars on them. We’ve done tracks with cellos and violas on them. We’ve done all kinds of stuff.

Everyone in the film says you’re the definition of rock ’n’ roll. How do you define rock 'n' roll?
Rock 'n' roll is rock 'n' roll – it speaks for itself. You hear it and you know it, whether it is or not. It’s quite simple. It means ‘f*** you’ – that’s the attitude of rock 'n' roll. It’s about music that makes you 10ft tall and immortal.

Do you hope the film clears up a few myths and rumours about you?
Oh, I don’t care. You know, I’ve been dead twice. A French magazine published my obituary.

Did they say anything nice?
I don’t know. It was in French.

You collect Nazi memorabilia. Why?
Because I like it. I don’t like the ideas – I just collect the stuff.

A lot of people might assume if someone collects Nazi memorabilia they’re into far-right ideas.
My deeds have spoken enough for my beliefs. My girlfriend’s black. I’m the worst Nazi you’ve ever seen.

What kind of things are you writing about on the new album?
I don’t have issues. When I was younger, we didn’t have issues – we had problems. I still have problems. Everybody’s drowning for want of a decent wage. There are problems there. Same old, same old.

You’re a famous, wealthy rock star – are you still bothered about that kind of stuff?
I’m famous; I’m not wealthy. I really don’t care about politics. It takes up too much time. And there’s always misery. Every politician is an a***hole. Sorry about that but they are. Everybody from Hitler to Stalin and back – all of them. To want to be a politician, you’ve got to be an a***hole.

What’s still left for Motörhead to do?
We’ve never played China or India or Africa. I’d like to do those before I drop.

How do you think you’d go down in China?
I have no idea. All I know about it is the bloody economy out there. I see it on TV all the time but I’ve no idea what the kids are like out there. I’d like to give it a shot. ****

Here is the awesome lead single from Motorhead's new album The World Is Yours. Love the line "And if you believe that Jesus saves, get back in line."


This is the big single off Motorhead's last album Motorizer. The song is fucking amazing, and the video captures the awesomeness that is Lemmy and Motorhead. There is a cool shot of the Rainbow Bar where Lemmy often hangs out. Also at the 2:01 mark, you can see Metal rockers Valient Thorr who will be opening for Motorhead on their 2011 North American Tour.



Motorhead's amazing cover of "Louie Louie". First released in 1978, it was the band's first charting single reaching #68 on the UK charts. Lemmy has always insisted that Motorhead is a Rock and Roll band and not a metal band, with great rock covers like this he proves it.



Lemmy takes on the near untouchable "Stand By Me" with Slayer drummer Dave Lambardo. Ben E. King did the original in 1961, and it one of the greatest rock and roll songs ever recorded. Lemmy does it justice here and gives it a blue collar edge; how the song would be coming from a regular Joe.



From the 1979 album of the same name, "Bomber" may be my favorite Motorhead song of all time. It gets me so pumped up, I want to go ape shit. With a little tweaking, President Obama should use this as an anthem for re-election.


The trailer for the new Lemmy documentary looks fucking amazing. Why is Lemmy a Rock God? Just listen to the words of Dave Grohl.


Still trying to get in the holiday spirit? Well here Lemmy teams up with Dave Grohl on drums and ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons on base, to give Chuck Berry's Christmas classic a little more bite.


Over the years, Lemmy has written some great songs for Ozzy Osbourne including "Ma'ma I'm Coming Home". Here the two icons sing an awesome duet with Slash coming in on guitar.