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Motörhead
Founded in London in 1975 by bassist, singer and heavy metal figurehead Ian
"Lemmy" Kilmister (ex-Hawkwind, he would remain the only permanent member),
Motörhead pursued a solid career against all the odds, built on incessant
deafening concert tours and smash albums - including the undying classic No
Sleep 'Til Hammersmith from 1979 - without ever letting up. Motörhead is one of
the most influential and respected bands in the history of hard rock/heavy
metal, having largely opened up the spectrum of heavy metal in the 1980s,
prefiguring thrash metal, speed metal and punk, and nev...
