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Lemmy wears a golden suit, flashes a dazzling smile behind the harmonica holder, and strums his acoustic guitar. "Golden suit?...", "Harmonica?...", "Acoustic guitar?...", "But most importantly... DAZZLING SMILE???" "Lemmy? When did that ever happen?" Well, it’s all true. For those who don't know him, Lemmy Kilminster is one of the ultimate symbols of ROCK'N'ROLL, as well as the founder of the Motorhead - ingenious, immeasurable, unbeatable - with whom he shattered all the age-old "genre" taboos by bastardizing rock, punk, and hard, thus paving the way for the nascent heavy metal. Today, he is a big boy of almost sixty years old, still plays, and has now decided to have a heart attack directly on stage (see that ballistic masterpiece that is "Inferno," the latest recent release from Motorhead). But those who know Lemmy well, know it; the Rocking Vicars, Sam Gopal, then Hawkwind, and finally Motorhead. At fifteen, he was listening to people like Bill Haley, Emile Ford and the Checkmates, Tommy Steele, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Eddie Cochran, and he had already discovered how playing guitar was a fantastic magnet for chicks.
Having said that, I could sit here and sweat to write entire pages arguing the "whys" of this album of purely 50s cover songs in a rigorously semi-acoustic rockabilly style. But I'll be succinct (though blatantly biased). Because Lemmy's non-voice is beautiful. Because Slim Jim from the Stray Cats plays drums. Because Danny B from the Rockats plays the second guitar. Because it’s a warm and heartfelt homage to the fifties spirit, that is, to the roots of rock before it all began. Because the 18 tracks on the list are all MUSTs that everyone should listen to and make others listen to... Because at the same time I selfishly hope that not everyone listens to this album, but only the right people. Very few.
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