OFF: Lemmy in Cambridge newspaper

[Jonathan Jarrett]

	Dear all,
		  the weekend before Motorhead recently played 
Cambridge, the local free weekly carried an article about the gig with 
a brief interview with the man himself in it. I put it aside to 
transcribe for the list, but unfortunately in a rather hazy patch 
yesterday I recycled the thing. It was only short, but I do remember 
being struck by the interviewer asking him whether he got fed up of 
being recognised, and Lemmy replying along the lines of, "No, I like 
being famous. Some people can't handle being famous but I've been famous 
a long time now, I can deal with it. I can't really remember what it's 
like not to be. I mean, I know intellectually that there was a time when 
I wasn't in Motorhead, but I can't remember what it felt like."

	Few people combine down-to-earth straightforwardness and ego 
like Lemmy :-) I did have a dig around the paper's website for the 
article, but it turns that the article didn't run in the main paper, 
only the free one, and that the free one isn't put online. However, 
while searching, I did find this article on the man, partly, which just 
shows terrible errors of taste...

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/lifestyle/arts_music/news/2005/11/17/e2127bfc-3f67-4547-b98f-170ade42235b.lpf

	Yours,
		Jon

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 Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk