When Lemmy was 10, his mother married George Willis, who already had two older children from a previous marriage, Patricia and Tony, with whom Lemmy did not get along.

With the band living in a Manchester flat, he had a relationship with a girl named Tracy who bore him a son, Paul Inder, although it would not be until the boy was six that Lemmy had any involvement with him.

In 1971, Lemmy joined the space rock band, Hawkwind, who were based in Ladbroke Grove, London, as a bassist and vocalist.

In the 1994 comedy Airheads ( in which he is credited as " Lemmy von Motörhead "), one scene involving Brendan Fraser, Adam Sandler, and Steve Buscemi, has Brendan Fraser's character, " Chazz " Chester Darvey talking to an undercover cop who is pretending to be a record executive — Chazz asks him, " Who'd win in a wrestling match, Lemmy or God?

Emerson often used a knife given to him by Lemmy ( who had roadied for Emerson's previous band, The Nice ) to force the keys on the organ to stay down.

He was given his trademark knife, an authentic Nazi dagger, by Lemmy, who was a roadie for The Nice in his earlier days.

Her departure, along with that of Lemmy ( who went on to form Motörhead ) and Robert Calvert, signaled the end of an era ; though Calvert, after a guest appearance with the band at the Reading festival, decided to rejoin the band full time towards the end of that year.

Other notable figures include the watercolour painter James Holland ( 1800 – 1870 ); the potter Josiah Wedgwood ; the founder, bassist and lead singer of one of Britain's foremost rock bands-Ian " Lemmy " Kilmister of Motörhead-he was born and spent his early childhood in the town ; and Darts legend and 15-time world champion, Phil Taylor who was born, raised and also worked in the town.

Lemmy, who was a fan of The Birds, also recorded " Leaving Here " with his band, Motörhead.

Recorded at Music Grinder Studios, Los Angeles, three drummers participated in the making of this album: Phil Taylor, who was fired after " I Ain't No Nice Guy " was recorded ( because he did not learn his drum tracks ), Tommy Aldridge who recorded most of the material on this album on a sessional basis only, and Mikkey Dee, who recorded the " Hellraiser " single ( the song was originally co-written by Lemmy for Ozzy Osbourne's No More Tears album.

On Motörhead's 1999 live album Everything Louder than Everyone Else, before playing " No Class " Lemmy dedicated the song to long-time friend Wendy O. Williams, who had committed suicide the previous month.

This proved particularly disappointing to Lemmy, who at live shows regularly makes joking references about its lack of sales.

He attended Ysgol Syr Thomas Jones school in Amlwch, where he was nicknamed Lemmy, although he is unsure why and it would later be claimed that it originated from the phrase " lemmy me a quid till Friday " because of his habit of borrowing money from people to feed his addiction to fruit machines ( slot machines ).

At that point Lemmy thought about changing his legal name to his stepfather's surname of Willis, but with his actual father's surname of Kilmister, he decided changing his birth certificate and passport would be too much hassle, so did not bother.

When his manager informed him that a band by the name of " Bastard " would never get a slot on " Top of the Pops ", Lemmy changed the band's name to " Motörhead " – the title of the last song he had written for Hawkwind.

In the 1990s after a Motörhead show at Hultsfred, Sweden a radio reporter asked Lemmy " If you were to play here again in ten years, how do you think you would sound?

Calvert suffered from bipolar disorder, at one point being sectioned under the Mental Health Act, Lemmy would sing on the single version of " Silver Machine ", his vocal an overdub of a live recording taken at the Roundhouse in London.

He would eventually replace Lemmy in Hawkwind.

Lemmy has claimed that this album would have been a hit, had the record company given proper distribution of the " I Ain't No Nice Guy " video clip .< ref >

Lemmy was born on Christmas Eve in 1945 in Burslem, Stoke on Trent, England.

Lemmy Kilmister during Motörhead's 2011 The Wörld is Yours TourIn 1975 Lemmy was fired from Hawkwind after he was arrested at the Canadian border in Windsor, Ontario, across the river from Detroit, Michigan on drug possession charges ; he spent five days in jail.

Motörhead have since gone on to become one of the most influential bands in the heavy metal music genre and although Lemmy is the only constant member, are still performing and releasing records to this day.

In October 2009 Lemmy performed vocals and bass on a cover of " Stand by Me " with Dave Lombardo of Slayer on drums and produced by DJ and producer Baron.

Lemmy appeared on the song " Doctor Alibi " from Slash's self-titled solo album.

In 2011 Lemmy appeared on the song " Debauchery As A Fine Art " from Michael Monroe's solo album Sensory Overdrive.

Lemmy is one of the few musicians to have been mentioned on Beavis and Butt-head without being made fun of.

Lemmy recently has appeared on Down and Dirty with Jim Norton as the series deejay, and also created the theme music.

Lemmy premiered on March 2010 at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.

In a Channel 4 documentary called Motörhead: Live Fast, Die Old, broadcast on 22 August 2005, it was claimed that Lemmy had " bedded " in excess of 2, 000 women.

Maxim has Lemmy at number 8 on its top ten " Living Sex Legends " list, as they claim that he has slept with around 1, 200 women.

Lemmy collects Nazi memorabilia, and has an Iron Cross encrusted on his bass, which has led to accusations of Nazi sympathies.

Lemmy has occasionally played electric or acoustic guitar, notably on the acoustic song " I Ain't No Nice Guy " from Motörhead's March Ör Die album, the title track on 1996's Overnight Sensation, " Limb from Limb " on Overkill ( on which he plays the second lead break ), " Boogeyman " on Rock ' n ' Roll, and a mouth harp on " Whorehouse Blues " from the Inferno album.

* 1979 – The Damned – " I Just Can't Be Happy Today " / " Ballroom Blitz " ( with Lemmy on bass ) / " Turkey Song " ( 7 " single ) – available as bonus track on the reissued Machine Gun Etiquette album

* 1994 – Shonen Knife – Rock Animals – guests on " Tomato Head " single remix ( Track 3 – " Lemmy In There Mix ") – not the album track

Wallis went on to join Lemmy in the first incarnation of Motörhead, then became the in-house record producer for Stiff Records.

Lemmy had been repeatedly asking him to join Motörhead since 1985, and in 1992, when asked once again, Dee accepted the offer, replacing Phil " Philthy Animal " Taylor.

Lemmy has also worked with a number of other musicians over his career and occasionally guests with Hawkwind.

They became interested in how long " you could make the human body jump about without stopping ", which they did for a few months, until Mik ran out of money and wanted to return to Hawkwind, taking Lemmy with him.

* Lemmy was a roadie for Jimi Hendrix before joining Hawkwind, and later forming Motörhead.

He has collaborated with Lemmy, co-writing " Lost Johnny " for Hawkwind, and " Keep Us on the Road " and " Damage Case " for Motörhead.

Within Portobello Road stood the Mountain Grill greasy spoon ( working man's ) café which in the late 1960s and early 1970s was frequented by many UK Underground artists such as Hawkwind featuring, at the time, Lemmy.

Of the tracks, three (" Motorhead ", " The Watcher " and " Lost Johnny ") were re-recordings of songs Lemmy had written and recorded with Hawkwind, " City Kids " was a re-recording of a Wallis track co-written and recorded with The Pink Fairies, " Leaving Here " was a cover version of a Holland / Dozier / Holland Motown song Lemmy had learned whilst roadying for The Birds.

It also includes three non-Motörhead tracks: Girlschool's cover version of Motörhead's " Bomber ", a cover version of Johnny Kidd & The Pirates ' " Please Don't Touch " performed by the Motörhead / Girlschool collaboration Headgirl, and Hawkwind's original version of " Motörhead ", the song from which Motörhead frontman Lemmy took the band's name after being fired from Hawkwind.