MOTÖRHEAD - Documentary Crew Visit Lemmy's School Days Roots
February 15, 2010, 14 years ago
BBC News is reporting:
Notorious heavy metal star Lemmy, of MOTÖRHEAD, is the subject of a new documentary film. The crew have been to Amlwch to find out about his school days.
It's not everyday an American film producer turns up at your school and says he'd like to talk about a former pupil. But that's what happened to headmaster Emyr Williams at Ysgol Syr Thomas Jones in Amlwch.
"I was in the deputy's office and a gentleman came to the door. He explained he was a film producer and was very confident, as Americans are," said Emyr."I was a little doubtful to begin with, because we do have a security door on reception and I don't know how he got past it, but then realised there was a camera crew outside."
It turned out the producer was in the middle of filming a documentary about Lemmy, the front man of metal band, Motörhead, who had been a pupil at the Anglesey school in the late 1950s.
Real name Ian Fraser Willis, he had moved to nearby Benllech with his mother when he was ten.
"He was always really into music and we used to play a bit in Benllech," said school friend, Bill Murrell. "We used to go and watch the Anglesey Stranglers, a group from our school who played in Benllech Memorial Hall."However, more than 40 years on, head Emyr wasn't sure his pupils would have heard of the rock and roller.
"But one of the sixth form boys who's studying music knew exactly who he was, so the film crew chatted with him," he said.
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The world premiere of Lemmy, the highly anticipated documentary chronicling the life and career of Lemmy Kilmister, will be held the week of March 15th in Austin, Texas, at the South by Southwest film festival.
To help kick off the launch of the film, Motörhead will be performing on Tuesday night, March 16th at Stubb’s Bar-B-Q. Opening the show is THE SWORD, who spent much of last year opening METALLICA's Death Magnetic tour.
Three years in the making, Lemmy follows the rock icon from his Los Angeles home to the arenas of Europe, and includes appearances by such Lemmy friends/peers as Metallica, OZZY OSBOURNE, SLASH, Billy Bob Thornton and wrestling superstar Triple H. The film was directed/produced by Greg Olliver and Wes Orshoski.