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White Line Fever: The Autobiography

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Greatest autobiography ever!
Greatest stories ever told.
Crazy well written.
This book will forever change you regardless of who you are.

Lemmy Kilmister, lead singer of Motorhead, tells his story as if you were sitting right there next to him enjoying a cold one together. He's comes off as witty, natural and loose in describing his troubles with record labels, his women, and the journeys all over the world his band has taken him. One complaint; other than Megadeth & Slayer, Lemmy never really goes in depth on his relationships or feuds with other rock stars. I wanted to hear more about his friendship with Doro Pesch (from Warlock), his feud with Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P., and others. You'd think that after influencing countless bands like Metallica that there would be more backstage stories. But he mainly sticks with the craziness within his own group. Very readable and funny.

Even if your're not a Motorhead fan you are sure to enjoy this. This book is as uncomprimising as his music. It is brutally honest, as wacky as a Mel Brooks film and as revealing on Rock Music as the watergate scandal was on Mr Nixon. Lemmy is a guy whose been through it all right from the mid sixties to the present day and still going strong and knows the ins and outs of the buisness. You just feel that he has so much to tell he could probably fill ten books of legendary stories about himself, other bands' antics and good and bad guys in music.
The wit and good taste the book is told with is legendary. A story he tells about guitarist Wurzel snorting cocaine off Leslie West's boot in a toilet had me smiling for days. There are brilliant one liners throughout whether it's wit or advice.
you could go through this book in almost one sitting because of its overly shortness, readability and because its hard to put down- lemmy just begins a story, says he'll come back to it later, and then its the end of the book! I think volume 2 is in order! Buy this book you wont regret it!

This book was a lot of fun to read. As a long-time fan I enjoyed all of the road and behind-the-scene stories. What non-fans might appreciate is the fact that Lemmy grew up and cut his teeth at the most exciting and fluid times in British rock history. The stories about Clapton, Beck, the Stones and the Beatles before they became global are very interesting, as are Lemmy's brushes with greatness - Jimi Hendrix.

A very honest account with some sage life advice and memorable one-liners.

Ever onward Sir Lemmy!

What a fun read it is. Motorhead fans will enjoy the sarcastic sense of humor all the way through whilst "regular" rock & roll fans will find enough information and shocking sex-and-drugs stories to stay satisfied. Of course, to Motorhead fans nothing will be shocking, just fun. We have known about Lemmy's...eh...excessive(?) behavior since we bought our first Motorhead album. This book provides enough insight into Lemmy to show once and for all that he "IS" rock & roll. Definitely mandatory reading if you are into music.

I could not put this book down. This is f*@k@#g great, don't you wish you were Lemmy? I really like this book but there are some things missing. There is not enough information about the Golden line up of Kilmister, Clarke, Taylor. Man, Eddie rules and it is my opinion that he is just as a badass as Lemmy when it comes to Music.
I would have liked to have read 100 pages from the On-parole to the Iron Fist years. Eddie rips up solos, he has heart and feel unlike Philp Campbell. Hey Campbell, please don't try to turn Motorhead into a Faster PussyCat. PLS lose those bandanas and those silk and L.A. glam rock outfits you wear. Mickey rules. Wurzel is the man, next to Eddie ofcoarse. You can find more information on Fast Eddie's website about those days, and it gives an honest, blunt, view of the Eddie years. Long live Lemmy and the horse he rode on!!