"Include loud Motorhead": Lemmy Kilmister has died

Lemmy Kilmister, the leader and founder of the British rock band Motorhead, suddenly died four days after he turned 70 years old. According to his family, the musician died after a short struggle with an extremely aggressive form of cancer.

The official page of the group in the "Facebook" states that the disease is detected at Lemmy only 26 of December.

"Our noble and mighty friend left after a short battle with a very serious form of cancer ... We can not express our shock and our grief, no words," - said in a statement the group.

"We will tell you more in the next few days, and now, please ... Turn loud Motorhead, turn on the loud Hawkwind (a group in which Lemmy played until Motorhead -), Lemmy turn the music loud. Drink, tell stories, remember the life of this delightful, wonderful man, "- wrote the band.

In January-February 2016 the group was planning a tour of Europe to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Motorhead.

Ian Kilmister, who took the stage name Lemmy, who was born in Barsleme, Staffordshire, in 1945.

In 1975, he formed the band Motorhead. By 2015 Lemmy was the only musician of her first composition.

It is believed that Motorhead stood at the origins of the "new wave of British heavy metal" of the late 1970s - early 1980s, when this style has become very popular in the United Kingdom, first, and then around the world.

Among the most famous songs of Motorhead - The Ace of Spades and Killed by Death.

Although the band was one of the most famous in the genre of hard-n-heavy, Lemmy himself usually preferred to call his style of rock 'n' roll.

Their style of play is really hard to fit into the framework of any areas of "heavy metal" - Motorhead influenced AIDS, thrash metal, loud and rough-emphasized sound quite harmoniously combined with popular at the time, punk rock.

All together it has allowed to find Motorhead fans among the many subcultures.

The last album the band released in August 2015.

In 2011 he died, former guitarist of Motorhead Michael Burston nicknamed "Scarecrow". He came into the team Motorhead in 1984 and spent 11 years in the group.

And shortly before his death, Lemmy, 12 November, died drummer Phil Taylor, who played in the band from 1975 to 1984 and from 1987 to 1992.

Lemmy himself was famous for her husky voice and unusual, deliberately rough style of play the bass guitar.

The sound of his guitar was one of the trademarks of the group - Lemmy used amplifiers firm Marshall, each of which has its own name (eg No Remorse, Murder One, or Killer), strongly "overloading" them.

Another feature Lemmy as a musician was the fact that he usually line up the bass guitar in the song is very tight, so that it replaced the rhythm guitar.

In addition, he was known for his personal qualities - the irrepressible energy, sense of humor, love of freedom, as well as a penchant for alcohol, which, incidentally, is not too distinguished him from other rock stars.

Many musicians say that Motorhead has had a strong impact on them. He has performed in concerts of his friends, inviting them to join the performances Motorhead.