Lemmy told Ozzy 'I could have lived longer but lived how I wanted instead'

By editorial board on August 11, 2022

Ozzy Osbourne has spoken of the time he spent with Lemmy Kilmister during the late Motörhead frontman’s battle with cancer.

Osbourne told Metal Hammer: “I went down to South America and he was there on tour, but he was so f--ked he couldn’t speak to anyone. He was sitting at the front, skinny as a rake. (Planetradio)

“He was riddled with cancer at the end, but mind you, he turned round to me and said ‘I’m probably going to die, I suppose. Never thought I’d make 70, so I did good’.”

"His exact words were, ‘I could have lived a lot longer and taken care of myself, but I lived my life the way I want to live and I ain’t got no regrets’. Fair enough!”

Osbourne also recalled Lemmy telling him his favourite Ozzy album was ‘No More Tears’.

He said: “I think about Lemmy all the f--king time. He was a great guy – he’d go, ‘That record you just made was f--king shit’, or ‘I really like that one’.

“His favourite was, ‘Your best record was No More Tears’ – yeah, because you wrote on it, you c--t!"

When Lemmy was fired from the psychedelic UK band Hawkwind in 1975 for a series of troubling incidents — including almost missing a gig to hook up with a groupie in Chicago because she had crystal meth, and getting arrested at the Canadian border for possessing speed — he was so upset and angry, he wanted payback. (NYP) So he decided to seduce his bandmates’ wives and girlfriends.

“I got my revenge,” Lemmy, who died in 2015 at age 70, told rock interviewer Wall in this raucous tale of his life of excess.

“I came home and f—ed all their old ladies. I made sure of [bandmates] Simon King and Alan Powell’s first. Alan Powell has still never forgiven me. And I hope he never will, cos there was a lot of malice involved, and I really meant every f—ing minute of it.”51gn6mhjeel

For the uninitiated, Lemmy — born Ian Fraser Kilmister in the UK on Christmas Eve in 1945 — led the legendary hard-rock band Motorhead, best known for the 1980 classic “Ace of Spades.”

But like fellow heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy built a legend larger than his music. Known for his skull & crossbones calvary hat and the ever-present Jack and Cokes that caused Food & Beverage Magazine to rebrand the drink “The Lemmy” upon his death, Lemmy lived for music, sex and speed (his drug of choice) — and all else fell by the wayside.

Much of the book is based on extensive conversations Wall had with Lemmy over the years, a smart approach, as the rocker’s personality shines through in every quote. Wall refers to him as “a Great British eccentric,” noting that he was “beloved of strangers and yet a stranger to” many of his real friends.lemmy-3

Lemmy, who wore one pair of black pants for 25 years, was an unabashed speed freak until his final days. In the 1970s, when (false) rumors spread that Keith Richards had had his blood drained and replaced with newer, healthier blood, Lemmy’s manager reportedly considered the same procedure for his client.

According to Lemmy, they took him to a doctor, who found his blood so awash in drugs, he was told not to mess with it.

‘I came home and f—ed all their old ladies.’Lemmy

“He took a blood test,” Lemmy said. “We went back a week later for the results and he said, ‘Whatever you do, don’t give him whole blood, it will probably kill him!’ My blood at the time had evolved into some sort of organic soup — all kinds of trace elements in it.” (For the record, while Lemmy told this story many times over the years, his manager denied it.) lemmy21

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