# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lemmy
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:50:45.538Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lemmy"
name: "Lemmy"
slug: "lemmy"
description: "The only constant in Motörhead for forty years, playing bass like a rhythm guitarist through overdriven Marshall stacks, singing in a voice described as one of rock's most recognisable — a gravelly rasp aimed up at a microphone tilted down into his face."
tagline: "British rock musician (1945–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lemmy-02.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1945-12-24"
deathDate: "2015-12-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           63.35
  momentum:             11.35118060313027
  historical:           27.242916
  currentAttention:     44.58126028900676
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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    slug: "musicians"
  - name: "Singer / Musician"
    slug: "singer-musician"
  - name: "Singer-Songwriter"
    slug: "singer-songwriter"
  - name: "Music Production"
    slug: "music-production"
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    slug: "classical"
  - name: "Music"
    slug: "music"
  - name: "United Kingdom"
    slug: "united-kingdom"
  - name: "Europe"
    slug: "europe"
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/OfficialLemmy"
    handle:    "OfficialLemmy"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm0501437"
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    handle:    "0bmuibaBeiMxAqN2HwUqhd"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lemmy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lemmy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lemmy Kilmister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_Kilmister"
    title: "Lemmy Kilmister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_Kilmister"
    title: "Lemmy Kilmister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_Kilmister"
    title: "Lemmy Kilmister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لمی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_Kilmister"
    title: "Lemmy Kilmister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_Kilmister"
    title: "Lemmy Kilmister"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%96"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Ian Fraser Kilmister grew up between Stoke-on-Trent and Wales, influenced by rock and roll and early Beatles, playing in 1960s groups like the Rockin' Vickers. He roadied for Jimi Hendrix and the Nice before joining Hawkwind in 1971, singing lead on their hit "Silver Machine". Fired in 1975 after a drug arrest, he founded Motörhead that same year. The band peaked around 1980–81 with "Ace of Spades" and the live album No Sleep 'til Hammersmith. He toured and recorded without pause until 28 December 2015, dying in Los Angeles four decades into a hard-living, road-driven life of chain-smoking, amphetamine, and whiskey. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer two days before the end.