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

The high microphone position has become a Lemmy trademark.

Despite Motörhead's many member changes over their 35-year history, the current lineup of Lemmy, Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee has remained constant since 1995.

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

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.

An officially licensed Lemmy figurine has been produced.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

Lemmy Lindström left the band in 2008 and has since been featured on bands and projects like Saturn Twilight, Progeland and Corvus Stone.

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 states that Rock ' n ' Roll has some great songs, like " Dogs ", " Boogeyman " and " Traitor ", which they played ' for years ', but overall it just didn't seem to work.

" Lemmy views Sacrifice as one of his favourite records the band has made, despite the difficulties involved, which he explained as:

He worked with Hipgnosis before meeting Motörhead's Lemmy in 1975, he designed " War-Pig " ( aka Snaggletooth, The Iron Boar, The Bastard or The Little Bastard ) for the band's Motörhead album and has continued to design the majority of the album and single sleeve covers for the band.

# " Iron Fist " ( Eddie Clarke, Lemmy, Taylor )

On March 27, 1982, Lemmy, Clarke and Taylor were interviewed by Tommy Vance on BBC Radio 1's ' Rock On Saturday ' show, " Iron Fist ", " Loser ", and " Speedfreak " were played.

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.

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.

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 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.

* 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

Lemmy playing bass and singing.

Vicious asked Lemmy, the bassist of Motörhead, to teach him how to play bass with the words, " I can't play bass ," to which Lemmy replied " I know.

Similar to Mascis's guitar work, Barlow's bass lines, with its alternating heavily distorted, fast chords and pulverizing lows, draw heavily from both his hardcore past and is influenced by musicians such as Lemmy from Motörhead and Johnny Ramone.

Its members were Jarkko Strandman ( vocals and guitar ), Lemmy Lindström ( bass ), and Esa Moilanen ( drums ).

* Lemmy Lindström, bass and guitar ( 1996 – 2008 )

This is the only album to feature the band's original line-up of Lemmy on vocals and bass, Larry Wallis on guitar and vocals, and Lucas Fox on drums.

* Lemmy ( Ian Kilmister ) – bass, lead vocals, backing vocals

* Lemmy ( Ian Kilmister )-vocals, bass, eight-string bass

* Lemmy ( Ian Kilmister ) – bass, vocals

* Lemmy – bass, vocals

* Lemmy – bass, vocals

Dee and Campbell didn't realise that " Out of the Sun " was only two and half verses and had rehearsed it as such so Lemmy added another section when nobody else was around, with him playing bass and Jamie, his guitar roadie, playing guitar, he then gave the others a tape of it — when Würzel played it in the rental car, Lemmy says he nearly drove off the road.

The song opens with an overdriven bass solo played by Lemmy.

* Lemmy ( Ian Kilmister ) – bass guitar, vocals

On 9 July 2011, Tim Butcher — longtime bass technician of Motörhead leader Lemmy — reported that Würzel had died.

* The Damned b-side of the single " Just Can't Be Happy Today " from Machine Gun Etiquette ( 1979 ) ( Lemmy of Motorhead on bass.