Motorhead, the conjunction ring between Punk Rock and Heavy Metal
What happened to Motörhead In 1981 he had the unexpected. Five years earlier the British magazine Melody Maker boiled them, nothing less, as “the worst band of the world”. It ended that in the United Kingdom, with the album Live “No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith”, they reached the first position in the sales ranking.
THE Motörhead were trained in 1975 by the bassist/singer Ian “lemmy” Kilmister After these was hunted by Hawkwind to have been arrested for drugs during a tour in the United States.
When the first album, simply entitled “Motörhead”came out in 1977, the band’s formation was already well defined, with Lemmy flanked by guitarist “Fast” Eddie Clarke and, on drums, from a man with a very rock’n’roll name, “Philthy Animal “Taylor. The debut album included the song from which the group took its name, which in the American Slang means “Speed Freak”, drug addict.
From the beginning the group distinguished itself for a style and a noise of its own.
Lemmy
which was missing on December 28, 2015 at the age of 70, he had always described the band’s music simply as Rock’n’roll, but was faster, dirty and wild than anything had ever felt before. It seemed to have been created by a group of alcoholic and drug addicts: and, as Musicradar reports, it was just like that.
The second and third album of
Motörhead
,
“Overkill”
And
“Bomber”
both published in 1979, were the link between
Punk Rock and Heavy Metal
a ferocious phrastuon who was enthusiastically welcomed by the fans of both sides.
“Bomber”
he marked a turning point for the band of
Lemmy
going up to the twelfth place in the British ranking. In 1980, with the fourth album
“Ace of Spades”
the group stated definitively. As “Fast” said Eddie, so as not to deny his nickname: “This album is really fast”.
And it was the fastest song of the album that defined the entire career of
Motorhead
. The furious title track, the story of a gambler sung by a man who spent most of his life playing slot machines. The song
“Ace of Spades”
He reached the fifteenth place in the ranking of individuals in the United Kingdom. The album even fourth place.
The live album
“No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith”
fully embodies the motto dei
Motörhead
: “Everything Louder Thanks Everything Else”. The album, which was published in June 1981 and which earned the first position of the sales ranking, was recorded in the concerts of 28, 29 and 30 March 1981 at the Leeds Queens Hall and at the Newcastle City Hall in Newcastle.
Lemmy was in New York when he received the good news. In an interview he remembered that moment: “I was still in bed when someone telephoned me. ‘Hey, you can call me back, please?’, And I reattached. Then, about ten minutes later, I realized and jumped up. This was the peak of our popularity in England. Of course, when you reach the peak you can only go down. But at the time we did not know that we had reached the peak.”
Second
Barney Greenway
singer of the Metal band
Napalm Death
: “The Motörheads were the first extreme band. Everything that came later, from Venom to Metallica to Napalm, started with the Motörhead.”
