Lemmy: Icon of cheerful self-destruction – ZEIT ONLINE
Life happens sometimes a strange game with death. Actors like James Dean rips it with barely 25 innocent from a California Highway curve after he had recently advertised nor credible for traffic safety. Philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, however, who allegedly had breakfast at most and otherwise sat, was 79 in a time when you were in the section 40th A Wise management of the body far from providing comparable old age. Whereby 50 years of rock ‘n’ roll with a bottle of whiskey a day – which is now actually a lot or a little? For this purpose, one would like to ask someone who has the old rock ‘n’ roll-themed live fast die young for longer than most of his colleagues celebrated. Lemmy, for example. But Lemmy is dead.
The seemingly indestructible berserk on bass is home died in Los Angeles. In almost biblical stage age of 70 years. Why Outsiders who the singer of the hard rock, more precisely, have multiple rock band Motörhead only from its flowering stage in memory, likely trim briefly: How who was still alive?
Yes, he has in fact more than that some sex with Comrade artgerechterem everyday behavior. Longer especially as the myth of what Ian Fraser Kilmister has made it his life’s maxim, since he left his parents’ home as a teenager. Career aspirations, it seemed early, on-time entry into the “Club 27″, to our Heavenly excess with Joplin, Morrison, Winehouse, Georg Trakl, the ingenious death despisers of global pop.
For this membership Lemmy has done almost everything. He drank and smoked and played and played the harlot, and still more, to take effect for the first time had by all, it is a heart condition two years ago in his place. Until then he had driven by Jack Daniels and two packets of butts a day done what hedonistic agnostics may halt do to ruin the health in this world so that for the Hereafter no unfulfilled wishes remain unfulfilled. Only: the pastor’s son from the Middle English Stoke-on-Trent, homeport sturmumtoster celebrities from the Titanic Captain Edward J. Smith about Robbie Williams to the Darts champion Phil Taylor – he has partout not been able to complete the early introduction of self-destruction process also. He died of cancer a few days after the diagnosis.
So not the rock ‘n’ roll, this voracious monster of showbiz. For such leniency Lemmy he now leaves behind a work that has no equal in the genre of distorted guitars and frantic drums. After his school leaving, he sought in various bands his exile Manchester after the harsh sound of the future, which sounded pretty good in the early sixties. That changed at the end of the decade when he some Jimi Hendrix served shortly before its entry into the 27er Club as a roadie and 1972, with the UK Space rock legend Hawkwind those kind shaggy music history wrote that finally matured to myth three years later with the establishment of Motörhead ,
