Lemmy: the contrarian hell-raiser who rejected adoration

Motörhead’s inimitable frontman, who disowned his genre and disregarded his band’s totemic status, will remain loved for his articulate grit and realismThere is a famous moment of intra-band discord in the Comic Strip’s spoof 1983 rockumentary Bad News Tour. The band’s frontman Vim, played by Adrian Edmondson, has just airily explained to an interviewer that Bad News are “not, basically, a heavy metal band”. “We’re more subtle than that,&rdquo