Hitting My Head Against The Wall - Lemmy & Motorhead: The Early Years
by Paul Welsh

156 Pages
Publisher: Cleopatra

This is the story of Lemmy and Motorhead from the beginning, a story of self-belief and determination in the face of criticism and disinterest from critics and audiences alike. It became the band's mission to defy all the negativity and prove everybody wrong, which they eventually did...the hard way.

Lemmy would play to an empty room if he had to. Music was his life. He lived it and breathed it, and as one British newspaper proclaimed in his obituary, he was "the rock wild man who made Keith Richards look like a choirboy."

The book follows the band's fortunes and misfortunes, from the days of Hawkwind to the point where Lemmy and the band finally achieved the success they so richly deserved. Told with a series of backstage anecdotes both shocking and amusing, this is how it really happened.

One thing Lemmy proved above all else was that when the going gets tough, the tough play rock 'n' roll!