MOTÖRHEAD Forced To Cancel Monsters Of Rock Performance Due To Frontman LEMMY's Ongoing Health Issues

April 26, 2015, 9 years ago

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MOTÖRHEAD Forced To Cancel Monsters Of Rock Performance Due To Frontman LEMMY's Ongoing Health Issues

Motörhead was due to perform at the Monsters Of Rock festival in São Paulo, Brazil on April 25th but were forced to cancel when frontman Lemmy took ill.  he was reportedly "suffering from gastric distress and dehydration" and was taken to hospital. 

Guitarist Phil Campbell and drummer Mikkey Dee were due to take part in a live jam with Sepultura's Derrick Green and Andreas Kisser, which was organized at the last minute. Watch for video footage to be posted in the coming days.

Back in 2013, Campbell spoke with Wales Online about a number of topics including leader Lemmy Kilmister's health. “Lem had a pacemaker fitted earlier in the year because he’d been suffering from irregular heartbeats, and then his diabetes started playing him up,” said Campbell.

“But his ticker’s fine now and he’s made sufficient changes to his lifestyle and diet in order to combat the diabetes, it’s just that he felt he wasn’t 100% ready to go back on the road just yet. As a result we put the dates back a little bit to enable him to build himself back up to full fitness. Look, none of us are getting any younger, so Lemmy’s condition didn’t exactly come as a massive shock,, but the older we get the more we tend to be there for one another and back each other up. The main problem is that he’s displayed such a hard persona all his life that it makes it difficult for him to let people in. He’s like the John Wayne of rock – always wanting to soldier on and handle things on his own, you know?”

Read more at Wales Online.


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