‘Unflinching, forthright and full of wry humour as the man himself, and there’s little praise greater than that’ CLASSIC ROCK. ‘Wall’s vision of Lemmy as a Rock’n’Roll stalwart who made no concessions is vivid to the last’ GUARDIAN.

In ‘The Ace of Spades,’ the most famous song by Motörhead, Lemmy, the band’s frontman, sang: ‘I don’t want to live forever.’ However, as he said to his friend of 35 years, former PR and biographer Mick Wall, ‘Actually, I want to go the day before forever. To avoid the rush...’. This is his strange but true story. Unquestionably honest, painfully funny, and always beautifully narrated, LEMMY: THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY is the story of the unique rock’n’roller who never sold his soul for silver and gold, keeping the devil, as he said, ‘very close to my side’.

From his school years in North Wales to his first brush with fame in the mid-60s with the Rockin’ Vicars, from being Jimi Hendrix’s personal roadie (‘I would score acid for him’), to taking the helm of Hawkwind, who topped the charts in 1972 with ‘Silver Machine’ (‘I was fired for taking the wrong drugs’); from founding Motörhead (‘I wanted to call the band Bastard but my manager wouldn’t let me’), whose iconic album NO SLEEP ’TIL HAMMERSMITH went straight to No. 1 in the UK charts.

Based on Mick’s original interviews with Lemmy conducted over many years, along with the insights of those who knew him best - former band members, friends, managers, fellow artists and industry insiders - this is a compelling story of one of Britain’s greatest characters. As Lemmy said of Wall, ‘Mick Wall is one of the few rock writers in the world who can actually write and seems to know anything about rock music. I can and do talk to him for hours - poor bastard.’ With the hard part of his journey now complete, Lemmy is poised to become a legend. LEMMY: THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY explains exactly how that happened.

Pages: 320, Year of Publication: 2015, Dimensions: 12.6x12.6cm