Chords for A short profile of Lemmy

[Gm] It's himself, [Cm] Lemmy from [C] Motorhead.
What's it done to your health?
I mean, what's it done to your [Bb] ears, for instance?
_ [Eb] Eh? _
_ [Cm] _ [Gm] _ [D] Oh! _ _
Another heavy metal day.
No sleep till Castle Donington.
Better have some vibes.
_ Before Robbie Williams put Stoke-on-Trent on the [A] musical map,
a real bad boy had made the potteries rock.
As Ian Kilminster, he was just a vicar's son from the Midlands.
As Lemmy, he was THE [D] metal guru.
_ _ Stand by [Gbm] your man
_ _ _ [G] _
Give him a break _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ [B]
Stand _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ _
by [Gbm] your man
My [G] girlfriend was like, why did you let him sit here and talk to me?
I said, do you know who that was?
That was Lemmy.
[D] _ _ Leathers [E] or jeans, study belt, big moles all over the face, a [Am] bit of beard.
He was just heavy metal [D] all over.
Stand by [Gbm] _
your man
[G] Just never felt I was special, particularly.
You know, I didn't think I was [D] above the run of the mill.
I thought I was the run of the mill.
I [Bm] just got lucky.
_ You know, [G] that's it.
_ _ [A] _ [D] I don't know.
[G] _ [D] _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ Lemmy became a rock icon with Speed [G] Merchant's Motorhead,
but he served his [E] apprenticeship in the early 70s
with the original chemically altered, crusty collective, Hawkwind.
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ [Ab] _ [D] Hawkwind were like a [Ab] nightmare.
_ We had five strobes on [Abm] the crowd at eye level,
doing the slow blink, which is the one that gives you epileptic fits.
We used to give people epileptic fits all the time. _ _
[Db] I _ [B] _ _ _ _ [Db] _
_ _ [B] went to Seabournquinn when [Db] I was 12.
And I [B] spent the [Gb] whole of the concert running [Bb] away from a naked woman.
_ _ _ _ We had this six foot four woman with 52 inch breasts
who stripped naked on stage and got painted and rolled about on the floor.
She was called Stacey.
She was quite impressive, really, from several points of view.
_ And we used to just put people's heads up, basically.
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_ _ _ Hawkwind was so underground, they were subterranean.
[Bbm] But then in 1972, the unthinkable happened.
[Bm] They had a hit single. _ _
There wasn't that much [Ab] synthesizer music about then.
It was like, _ _ the thing at the top.
It was a combination of synthesizer space stuff and 12 bar rock,
which I just thought sounded [Bb] fantastic. _ _
_ None of Hawkwind [Db] were exactly pop idol material.
_ Reluctantly, they let [Eb] new boy Lemmy handle the vocal chores [Db] on Silver Machine.
[Ab] I _ _ _ _ just took [Bb] a _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Db] line.
_ _ _ And I'm still [Eb] feeling_
_ _ _ [N] I'd only been with [Abm] them about, what, six months.
And it really pissed them off.
_ [Dbm] _ _
Immediately, [Db] he's a number two or number one,
depending which chart you've read.
[D] And there's [Eb] me picture on my own on the front of the NME.
They couldn't stand it. _ _
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_ _ Hawkwind was so peeved with Lemmy's newfound stardom,
oh, and [Ebm] for getting busted entering Canada with his luggage [Ab] full of [Eb] drugs,
that they sacked him.
Lemmy took his P45 and his bass [Ab] guitar
and formed an [Eb] even louder outfit with a delightful new name. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ The original idea was, he wanted to call the band Bastard.
We only lasted about 25 [Db] minutes, that idea.
[Eb] Our manager said, you're never going to get on top of the clubs with that.
And now [F] here's Silver Machine [Eb] by Bastard.
_ My God, the establishment would have imploded.
_ _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ [Eb] _ So Bastard was [Bb] out, and instead,
they chose a name that perfectly summed up their philosophy [Eb] and their music.
Was it rock?
Metal?
Punk?
No, it was Motorhead.
_ _ [Ebm] I went to go and see Motorhead,
and I physically [Eb] felt sick because it was so loud.
_ _ [Ab] _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
[Ab] Short, [Eb] sharp, _ [Ab] _ penetrating, and [Abm] fast.
_ A lot of it is very fast, isn't it?
The majority _ of it.
There's probably mid [B]-paced and loud, and some of [Ab] it's quite slow and loud,
[Eb]
but it's all loud.
_ _ _ _ If it starts off quietly, give it a minute, it'll get loud. _ _
Insert. _ _ _ _ _ _
Do you remember Motorhead [E] on the Young Ones?
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_ _ _ _ _ Lemmy, just with that fantastic pose that he has, legs just dried,
microphone high in the air, chin as far up as he can get [Ab] it.
[Gb] If you like to gamble, I tell you how to get paid.
You always stop _ _ _ _ [Ab] playing. _
Ace of [Eb] Spades was the most brilliant [Ab] song.
I pretty much to today live by that record.
[A] You know who's going to lose?
The younglings were fools.
That's the way I like it, baby.
I don't want to live forever.
Wanna [Db] live forever.
Who wants to live forever?
_ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ And don't forget the [E] Jones.
If you got a big Corvette Stingray with [A] some big tires,
[Eb] put Ace of Spades on and just see how [B] fast she can go.
That's a [Gb] rock and roll record.
It was just, just brilliant. _
_ If there was even a tiny [Eb] weenie shred of you that thought
rock music was uncool, you'd completely change your mind [Ebm] that day
you saw Motorhead on the Young Ones, [Db] wouldn't you? _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ Filthy Animal Taylor just smashing his drums [E] to bits.
[Db] _ _
_ [Gb] _ [B] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ Filthy Animal Taylor on [Eb] drums.
I was always enormously impressed with him because he had this big drum kit,
because he had all the boom [Abm] cymbal stands.
And [Em] the last two [B] were _ [Db] vodka optics.
I [B] always thought that was a good idea.
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _