Hard-Living Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead Dies at 70, Band Confirms

NBC News ^ | Dec 28 2015, 8:00 pm ET | M. Alex Johnson

[Dr.Deth]

Cripes, he was diagnosed two days before he died? I guess under British Health Care his chemo would have been scheduled for 2017 anyway.

[ConservativeStatement]

“Killed By Death”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ngDWnP2akE

Rock and roll, Lemmy style.

[Viking2002]

R.I.P., Lemmy. You were a great one. Can I have your Rickenbacker bass? You got yours, now I want mine.

[Chickensoup]

No, some lung cancers are insidious and fast.

He thought he was suffering from altitude sickness.

[Two Kids' Dad]

He was a legend and I had the great fortune to have seen Motorhead perform live many times. Took each of my girls to a show, younger kid to a House of Blues gig in Anaheim and older kid to Club Nokia in L.A.

It’s hard to believe that he’ll never put out another album, never have another movie cameo, never do another Motorboat cruise or yell out “We are Motorhead, and we play rock and roll!” at the beginning of a show.

He was one-of-a-kind.

[Blue Jays]

R.I.P. Lemmy Kilmister.
Phil Campbell (pictured right) is an awesome guitarist.
\m/\m/

[darkangel82]

I read that they had to cut short their Denver show for that reason. No one thought it was anything more, but too late now.

[bryan999]

Euthanized ?

I think it’s strange that we know he just found out about it... and now he’s RIP’d.

He lived (and died) in Los Angeles from what I read earlier.

[Blue Jays]

Another good thread on this Lemmy Kilmister topic:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3377501/posts

[Darren McCarty]

I grew up listening to this band in the 80's and early 90's.

Traitor! Traitor

[right way right]

Aye, he was such a handsome lad too. RIP

[Mathews]

Aces up Lemmy. RIP.

[dfwgator]

Lemmy wrote arguably one of the most touching tributes to the WWI soldier...Never thought Lemmy could bring a tear to one’s eye but he did here.

1916
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqFoqtpUFY8

[Rastus]

He lived in the US. But, he loved Obama, so the point stands.

[stylecouncilor]

Ping

[2CAVTrooper]

He didn’t find out until a few days or weeks ago that he had a very aggressive form of cancer.

[Mariner]

He was a hardcore alcoholic that smoked two packs a day.

And who all knows what else.

RIP Lemmy.

[Mariner]

"Expect the next 5 years or so to be full "

Probably Tony Iommi (lukemia) and Ozzy (chronic party syndrome).

[FunkyZero]

Man, stop talking. It was bad enough that Malcom is out of commission and now Lemmy is dead. The fragile remains of my youth can’t take much more of this in a short spell.

[TalBlack]

ping