Recorded live on this day in 1980 for Rockstage on 4 April 1981. The Rockstage programme, which aired on ATV (now ITV Central), presented gigs from Nottingham's Theatre Royal. This concert came after a European tour in February, March and some sporadic dates until July. After the Rockstage...
I didn't come up with the title Orgasmatron right off the bat. The album's working title was Riding with the Driver (each Motörhead studio album, except Bastards, which we made in 1993, is named after one of its songs), but that track didn't turn out as good as...
MOTÖRHEAD released Sacrifice on this day in 1995. The first and last songs are killer, quite a lot of punk especially early on... and of course heavy rock throughout! Sacrifice was the last MOTÖRHEAD album with Würzel: He only played one solo on the whole album. He was...
Sandwiched between Hot Chocolate and the Nolan Sisters we get one of MOTORHEAD’s best! Appearing on Top of the Pops on this day in 1980. Motorhead, Top of the Pops, 1 May 1980 "Leaving Here" is a cover of an early Holland-Dozier-Holland number originally recorded by Eddie Holland in 1963. Eddie Holland...
MOTÖRHEAD released their fifth studio LP - Iron Fist - on this day in 1982. It would be the last MOTÖRHEAD album with Fast Eddie Clarke, who also co-produced the recording. Any quotes from the band are usually negative towards this album, personally it's one of my favourites!...
Cheers you lot! The gig was actually recorded way back in August 1980, but on this day in 1981 the old Associated Television (now ITV) broadcast MOTORHEAD & GIRLSCHOOL on the Rockstage programme. Watch both sets, recorded at Nottingham's Theatre Royal, below. MOTORHEAD get 35 minutes, GIRLSCHOOL about...
Live on this day in 1991 at the Deutsches Museum, Munich during the 1916 tour, following the album release in January. The gig, MOTÖRHEAD's 15th Anniversary show, was released on video as Everything Louder than Everything Else which includes interviews during the German leg of the tour. Lemmy,...