{"id":5766,"date":"2015-12-29T04:52:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T04:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/12\/29\/lemmy-kilmister-died\/"},"modified":"2015-12-29T04:52:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T04:52:50","slug":"lemmy-kilmister-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/12\/29\/lemmy-kilmister-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemmy Kilmister died…"},"content":{"rendered":"


Heavy metal icon and Mot\u00f6rhead frontman Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister died from cancer on Monday (Dec. 28), the band’s management has confirmed. He was 70. Since founding Mot\u00f6rhead in 1975, Kilmister was the band’s sole constant member, known for his powerful bass playing, gravelly vocals, his\u00a0massive mutton chops and his seemingly indestructible constitution, which somehow weathered more than 50 years of hard living, hard touring, cigarettes, alcohol and amphetamines.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

The band’s longtime manager Todd Singerman praised Kilmister for mustering the energy to finish the Mot\u00f6rhead’s\u00a0recent European\u00a0tour, saying his passing has caught them all by surprise. He said that neither Kilmister nor anyone on his team knew the rock star had cancer until just a few days ago.<\/p>\n

Kilmister’s health issues caused\u00a0Mot\u00f6rhead to cancel or cut short\u00a0several shows\u00a0on the band’s fall U.S. tour, citing “altitude issues” at the time.\u00a0Kilmister was a\u00a0diabetic and in 2013\u00a0suffered a hematoma.<\/p>\n

Kilmister was famously gruff, quick with his fists and did not suffer fools lightly, but for every story of his badassedness,\u00a0there were others\u00a0of him\u00a0taking the time to sign autographs, make sure his opening acts got decent time for their sets, or giving\u00a0a thoughtful interviews to\u00a0young rock writers (including this one, several times, many years ago).<\/p>\n

“There is no easy way to say this\u2026our mighty, noble friend\u00a0Lemmy\u00a0passed away today after a short battle with an extremely aggressive cancer,” Mot\u00f6rhead\u00a0said in a statement\u00a0posted to Facebook. “He had learnt of the disease on December\u00a026th, and was at home, sitting in front of his favorite video game from The Rainbow which had recently made it\u2019s way down the street, with his family.”<\/p>\n

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Source: Billboard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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