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Motörhead is one of the most influential and enduring Heavy-Metal
Hard-Rock groups on the planet. The band was founded by vocalist+bassist
Ian Fraser 'Lemmy' Kilmister in London, ENGLAND, in 1975, originally under
the name of Bastard. A year later with guitarist Larry Wallis and drummer
Lucas Fox, the band recorded "On Parole" but the label rejected
the album, it was issued three years later after the group achieved success.
The official self-titled debut album came out in 1977, when Motörhead
featured Lemmy, 'Fast' Eddie Clarke on guitars and Phil 'Philthy Animal'
Taylor on drums.
The trio released in the spring of 1979 "Overkill", it entered
the U.K. Albums chart at #24 and generated their first top 40 hit single,
the title-track of the album; during the same year, followed, after several
concerts, another album, "Bomber", which reached the #12 position
in chart.
1980's "Ace Of Spades" peaked at #4 on the British Albums chart
and the legendary title-track, the one trademark song that would summarize
everything that made this early incarnation of the band so legendary,
climbed into the U.K. Top 20 Singles chart.
Two years later the threesome issued "Iron Fist", another British
top 10 LP for Motörhead and once again the album's title-cut opened
in the top 40; while they became heroes in Britain, it took the band several
years to break into the American market, but they finally did it and "Iron
Fist" broke into the U.S. Pop Albums chart at #174. Eddie Clarke
left after this release, Lemmy recruited guitarist Brian Robertson for
the album supporting tour. The new line-up recorded "Another Perfect
Day" and released it in mid-1983 debuting inside the top 20 in U.K.
and reaching #153 on the U.S. Top 200 LPs & Tapes chart; the album
also included two minor hits: "I Got Mine" and "Shine".
Robertson departed toward the end of the year and was replaced by two
guitarists, Phillip Campbell and Michael 'Wurzel' Burston. Thus reconfigured,
in 1984, Motörhead released the hit single "Killed By Death"
which became part of the double-disc anthology "No Remorse".
After two years out of the spotlight, the group resurfaced with a new
studio-album, "Orgasmatron", recorded with ex-Saxon,
Peter Gill behind the drum kit. The disc failed to crack the U.K. Top
20 in sales and stuttered at #157 on The Billboard 200 chart.
Phil Taylor was back on drums, for 1987's "Rock 'N' Roll"; the
band's ninth LP of original material duplicated the chart success of its
predecessor and the amusing single, "Eat The Rich", perhaps
the album's only true highlights, never entered the U.K. chart. A live-album
entitled "No Sleep At All" followed a year later.
In 1990 Lemmy Kilmister, signed a deal with WTG-Sony and relocated in
the States where recorded "1916", Motörhead's most successful
album in America, it reached the #142 position on The Billboard Top 200
chart and received a nomination for the Grammy award for Best Metal Album.
Taylor was fired before the sessions for the 1992's "March Or Die",
to be replaced by Mikkey Dee; the album didn't chart in the U.S. and Motörhead
was ultimately dropped from WTG.
After their commercially minded and only, major-label release the band
returned to a more familiar sonic formula, extremely loud and fast, on
the next album, "Bastards" which was released in 1993 and distributed
through ZYX; it included the U.K minor hit single "Born To Raise
Hell".
In July 1995 the Heavy-Metal heroes roar back with their thirteenth studio
album, "Sacrifice"; after completing the record Wurzel quit.
Motörhead continued as a threee-piece issuing "Overnight Sensation"
a year later. "Snake Bite Love" followed in March 1998, again,
to no significant sales.
No matter how many years the band toils on, the iconic Lemmy Kilmister
refused to change the basic hard and fast rules of his band and in May
of 2000 they churned out "We Are Motörhead". Exactly two
years later, they followed it up with "Hammered", yet another
fine Motörhead album that sold well to his dedicated fan base.
In 2003 Lemmy participated in a collaborative recording project called
Probot, headed by Foo
Fighters' Dave Grohl in which the founder member of Motörhead
performed on the first single, "Shake Your Blood".
Motörhead released their next album, "Inferno", in June
2004; the disc took the band back into the U.K. Official Sales chart after
twelve years' absence.
"Kiss Of Death" followed two years later, reaching the top 50
in U.K. and hitting #20 on the U.S. Top Independent Albums chart.
Motörhead are back with their 24th album in all, "Motörizer".
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