White
Line Fever is vintage Lemmy (1945 - 2015): candid, sarcastic and blunt. No ifs and
buts, just Lemmy. And Lemmy's personality shines through his
autobiography like a prison searchlight setting ablaze a high
security facility in the dead of night!
Love
him or hate him, the bassist front-man of Motorhead has to be admired
for what he is (was): a talented songwriter / musician and an 'in
your face' rock star with a sneaky intellectual streak.
Lemmy
is not a Life Coach. His 2003 autobiography White Line Fever is not a
self-help book either. Nonetheless there are many nuggets of common
sense interspersed throughout his book.
“We'd
[Motorhead] been in worse situations … you just have to keep going
and everything will sort itself out. It always does. You can't run
around panicking and giving up; you've got to have the strength of
your convictions.”
Lemmy
was a self-made man. He probably succeeded in life and the music
industry more through persistence than anything else. He was a larger
than life personality who inspired intense loyalty in his fans. To
his fans, 'Lemmy is God' was not a statement of adulation; rather it
was simply a statement of fact.
White
Line Fever reveals insights into the (incestuous?) British rock music
scene of the late 1960s and 1970s. It is a must read for any rock
music historian or for a Motorhead fan. It is a funny, entertaining
and opinionated statement from a High Priest of Rock.
Imran
is an adventurer, blogger, consultant, guide, photographer, speaker,
traveler and a banker in his previous life. He is available on
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