31 May 2016

UK Rock writer Mick Wall on Lemmy

From Nine To Noon, 10:05 am on 31 May 2016
Motorhead bassist Lemmy Kilmister performs at Hellfest in western France on 19 June 2015.

Motorhead bassist Lemmy Kilmister performs at Hellfest in western France on 19 June 2015. Photo: AFP

UK rock writer Mick Wall has just written Motörhead frontman and friend Lemmy Kilmister's strange but true life story.

The pair were friends for 35 years and the book is based on Mick's original interviews with Lemmy conducted over numerous years.

Lemmy: The Definitive Biography is a  brutally frank and funny book.

Mick Wall

Mick Wall Photo: supplied

As Lemmy once said of Mick 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."

Lemmy died four days after his 70th birthday on 28 December 2015 at his home in Los Angeles from cancer.

Mick Wall talks to Kathryn Ryan about "the only rock n' roller never to sell his soul for silver and gold".