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THE DEATH OF MOTORHEAD’S LEMMY

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-DEC 28, 2019..ON THIS DATE FOUR YEARS AGO LEMMY, THE LEAD VOCALIST AND BASSIST WITH MOTORHEAD DIED AT HIS HOME IN LOS ANGELES. LEMMY PASSED AWAY FOUR DAYS AFTER HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY FOLLOWING A SHORT BATTLE WITH A VERY AGGRESSIVE CANCER. WHEN MOTÖRHEAD OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED LEMMY’S PASSING ON THEIR OFFICIAL FACEBOOK PAGE, THEY NOTED THE CANCER HAD ONLY BEEN DIAGNOSED TWO DAYS EARLIER. KILLMISTER DIED FROM PROSTATE CANCER, CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA AND CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE. BTW, LEMMY SAID HE HAD STARTED SMOKING AT THE AGE OF 11, BUT 3 MONTHS BEFORE HIS DEATH IN SEPTEMBER OF 2015 HE WAS HOSPITALIZED WITH A LUNG INFECTION, SO DECIDED TO CUT HIS SMOKING DOWN TO ONLY 1 PACK A DAY. LEMMY ALSO CLAIMED THAT HE DRANK A BOTTLE OF JACK DANIELS A DAY SINCE HE WAS 3O YEARS OF AGE. TWO YEARS BEFORE HIS DEATH IN 2013 LEMMY QUIT DRINKING. A TRUE ROCK & ROLL LEGEND, R.I.P. LEMMY.