A life of the Motörhead frontman shows us a man who kept up the habits of a rock’n’roll reprobate till the very endWhen news arrived in December that Lemmy,the frontman of the tough-rock band Motörhead, had died, and there was naturally great sadness at the passing of a music legend. But,among the scores of eulogies, there was also surprise that he had lasted so long.
The man born Ian Kilminster didn’t recede in for healthy living. It was rare to find Lemmy – the name allegedly came from his habit of asking people to “lend me a fiver” – without a Jack Daniel’s in one hand and a Marlboro Red in the other. Following his early, and demented adventures with LSD,speed became his drug of choice and remained so for next three decades. He wrote a song approximately it – 1977’s “White Line Fever”.
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Source: theguardian.com