Ian Fraser Kilmister was born on Christmas Eve, 1945. Learning from an early age that chicks really do appreciate a guy with a guitar, and inspired by the music of Elvis and Buddy Holly, Lemmy quickly outgrew his local bands in Wales, choosing instead to head to Manchester to experience everything he could get his hands on. And he never looked back.

I gotta admit here that I wanted to read this book for a while now, because I love Motörhead and of course as I devoted Motörhead fan I needed to read this book, and now I finally read.

This book is very good, because there are so many good things I have to say about this book. If you want me to be very honest here, I need to admit that this book is one of the best autobiographies I’ve read so far in my life.

One of the things I liked a lot about this book is that it feels more like a transcription of an long and interesting interview rather than a book. Because of this, the entire time I was reading this book I heard Lemmy’s voice in my head actually saying the words I was reading on paper.

This book offers us fair share of humor, and at the same time we get Lemmy’s opinions and thoughts on other musicians which really makes feel like an real human being rather than one of the rock gods he is. Some of the things Lemmy says about other musicians is very brutally honest.

At the same time Lemmy also gave us his thoughts about feminism and vegetarianism amongst other things. And a little spoiler he didn’t have a lot of good things to say about feminism. Because of this I realized that I agree with Lemmy on more things that I actually thought I would. 

You don’t have to be a big fan of Motörhead to enjoy this book, if you have slightest interested in music then I very strongly think that you will enjoy this book as much as I did.

The one bad things I have to say about this book is that it could easily be longer because I just couldn’t get enough of this book because I find it to be so good and damn interesting.

This book also shows us that Lemmy is much smarter than all of us expected him to be, and at times there are moments in this book where he is pretty fun.

A huge topic throughout this book is that Lemmy doesn’t exactly paint himself in the best light and admits that some of the things he done in life from his drug and alcohol struggles weren’t the smartest and kindest things to do while being self-confident and unapologetic himself. 

The writing style in this book is very good. I said it above, but this book feels like an transcription of an extended interview or like having a coffee chat with Lemmy rather than just reading a book which he had written. 

I Give This Book 4 / 5