Upon leaving school and with his family relocated in Conwy, Lemmy undertook menial jobs including working at the local Hotpoint factory while also playing guitar for local bands, such as The Sundowners, and spending time at a horse riding school.

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

Lemmy has made a number of appearances in film and television, including the 1990 science fiction film Hardware and the 1987 comedy Eat the Rich, for which Motörhead also recorded the soundtracks.

Lemmy has also appeared in several movies from Troma Entertainment, including the narrator in 1996's Tromeo and Juliet and as himself in both Terror Firmer and Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.

Lemmy also appears in the new Airbourne music video for " Runnin ' Wild ".

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

Lemmy also appears briefly, but with some confiding words, in the Penelope Spheeris film " The Decline of the Western Civilization, Part II ".

Lemmy also provided the voice for the arms dealer in Scarface: The World is Yours.

By now the show had proved a hit, and several notable stars appeared in later productions, including Leslie Phillips, Miranda Richardson, Lionel Jeffries, Nicholas Parsons, Peter Capaldi, Kate Bush, Richard Vernon, Ruby Wax, Graham Crowden, Paul McCartney, Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy, Elvis Costello, and Benjamin Zephaniah ( as a Rastafarian police van driver ) and several musical acts, particularly from the Bad News series which was also aided by Queen guitarist Brian May, such as Def Leppard and Marillion.

He also took part in a comedy skit entitled " The Easy Guitar Book Sketch " with comedian Rowland Rivron and fellow musicians Mark Knopfler, Lemmy from Motorhead, Mark King from Level 42, and David Gilmour.

It is also home to the local secondary school, Ysgol Syr Thomas Jones which Lemmy attended, and the town also has a primary school.

King also took part in a comedy skit titled " The Easy Guitar Book Sketch " with comedian Rowland Rivron and fellow British musicians Mark Knopfler, Lemmy from Motorhead, David Gilmour, and Gary Moore.

Their 1981 single " Don't Do That " also featured Lemmy from Motörhead, Cozy Powell and The Nolans.

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.

Bass also played Lemuel " Lemmy " Barnet in the third and fourth series of the landmark 1950s science fiction radio series Journey into Space.

The Ramones also performed it at their final show with Lemmy, with that show being released on video and CD as We're Outta Here.

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.

In the case of the aforementioned Lemmy, for one photo the editors simply took a picture of a man wearing a baseball cap and drew a crude approximation of Lemmy's facial hair and warts on his face ( as well as writing " Motörhead " on the cap ).

For instance, when Stanshall took over the John Peel radio show for a while, Moon appeared as Lemmy in the saga of Colonel Knutt, idiot adventurer-detective.

The song " Eat the Rich " was written for Peter Richardson's 1987 film Eat the Rich which starred the regular cast of The Comic Strip and Lemmy himself in a bit part as " Spider.

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?

Lemmy appeared as an unlockable character in the game Guitar Hero: Metallica.

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.

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.

An attempted reconciliation in 1970 between Lemmy and his birth father broke down, with Lemmy describing him as a " nasty little weasel ".

Lemmy has noted in several magazine and television interviews that he made more money from the royalties of that one song than he had in his entire time with Motörhead.

After being diagnosed with Type-2 diabetes in 2000, which led to a brief hospitalisation, Lemmy again appeared with Motörhead at WrestleMania 17.

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 has a cameo role in the film ‘’ Down and Out with the Dolls ’’ ( Kurt Voss 2001 ).

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.

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 in his usual singing stance, with his microphone in its high position.

Rickenbacker produced a 60-bass run of Lemmy Kilmister signature basses, the 4004LK, which is fitted with three pickups, gold hardware, and elaborate wood carving in the shape of oak leaves.

* 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

* 1990 – Hardware: Original Soundtrack – contains " A Piece of Pipe " by Kaduta Massi with Lemmy

* Interview with Lemmy Kilmister in REVOLUTIONART Magazine 22

* 1945 – Lemmy, British singer, bassist ( Motörhead )

* Lemmy ( Ian Fraser Kilmister, born 1945 ), British rock musician, founder of the Motörhead

* Lemmy ( born 1945 ), British musician

In 1953, he played the character Lemuel " Lemmy " Barnet in the British sci-fi radio series, Journey Into Space.

Rock ' N ' Roll is the eighth album by the British band Motörhead and the first appearance of their four-piece line up of Lemmy, Phil " Philthy Animal " Taylor, Würzel and Phil Campbell, which lasted from 1987 until 1992.