Motorhead
MOTÖRHEAD Released The Motherrocker Of All Heavy Metal Rockers ‘ACE OF SPADES’ 45 Years Ago
Top singles from the past
27 October 2025
Ear-piercing metal big shots MOTÖRHEAD (1975-2015) fronted by
rock maniac Lemmy (1945-2015) released their mammoth classic
ACE OF SPADES on 27 October 1980, 45 years ago today.
It hit the UK charts on 3 different occasions (first release, re-release,
and after the death of Lemmy in 2015, and sold more than 400.000
copies over the years.
On this day AOS gained more than
536 million streams on Spotify.
It featured on their
4th, same-titled, LP.
Lemmy about the lyrics: “I used gambling metaphors, mostly
cards and dice, when it comes to that sort of thing, I’m more into
the one-arm bandits actually, but you can’t really sing about
spinning fruit, and the wheels coming down”.
The pleasure is to play
Makes no difference what you say
I don’t share your greed
The only card I need
Is the Ace of Spades
The Ace of Spades”
Live (with Dave Grohl and Slash)…
MOTÖRHEAD’s Rider Back In 2002
It reads like a XXL groceries list.
Don’t forget the cards.
Former THE CLASH Drummer TOPPER HEADON Who Turns 70 Today Remembers His Roommate LEMMY
30 May 2025
Topper about living in the metal ace-of-spades hero’s house, once upon a time.
Nicholas Bowen Headon was born on 30 May 1955 in Bromley, Kent. Happy 70.
Full Topper Headon interview with LTW here.
Image on top: cover of his solo album ‘Waking Up’.
Poster This – MOTÖRHEAD 2004
The Late Metal Priest LEMMY About Christianty
19 August 2023
Good call, Lemmy.
Brand New Video For MOTÖRHEAD’s 1998 Cover Of METALLICA Classic ‘ENTER THE SANDMAN’
9 May 2023
Noise titans MOTÖRHEAD and METALLICA were friends for a very long time. The latter played on Lemmy’s 50th birthday concert in 1995 all dressed up as the great man himself, under the moniker of The Lemmys. In turn, Motörhead paid homage to some of Metallica’s best known exploits, even winning a Grammy for their version of Whiplash in 2004.
Lemmy‘s gang also covered their 1991 classic ENTER THE SANDMAN in 1998.
That version was part of a compilation that didn’t reach many fans of both bands.
The Motörhead curators decided to give the iconic cover the attention it deserves
with a brand new video for it produced by Mulberry Creative. It’s an animated one,
showing a horrifying nocturnal journey through the nightmares of a child who is
haunted by the evil sandman in his dreams, and is ultimately saved by the powers
of the inimitable Motörhead ‘Warpig’.
Watch/listen.
MOTÖRHEAD: Instagram
A PRIMITIVE EVOLUTION – Canadian Powerhouse Trio Turn ‘THE ACE OF SPADES’ Into A Vicious Master Blaster
Daily electricity to load your batteries
21 March 2023
BAND: A PRIME EVOLUTION
WHO: Powerhouse trio from Toronto, CA.
NEW EP: 3-track one, entitled ACE OF SPADES
PICK: The title track.
Brett Carruthers (frontman): “We actually started playing it live for fun years ago while writing ‘Becoming’ and were listening to a lot of Motörhead classics. We thought, what if we slowed it way down to sound like one of our dirty rock jams? We fell in love with the result and played around with it, and finally decided to record it. We’re just sad Lemmy will never get to hear it, but hopefully the metal gods may accept our filthy offering!”
TUTV: It’s a daring affair to cover a cannonball by the legendary noise titans
Motörhead. The band of the late metalhead Lemmy. And it’s even more daring
to cover their sassy steamroller ACE OF SPADES.
Guess what? Canadian powerhouse trio A PRIMITIVE COLLECTION nail it with
blustery bravado. They slow down Ace Of Spades and turn it into a vicious master
blaster Lemmy definitely would like when he hears the schizophrenic guitar riffage,
the monstrous drum/bass power, and singer Brett Carruthers‘s ruthless primal
screams. Wowzers!
Lemmy once said: “People don’t know how to be outrageous anymore.”
Except for powerhouse A Prime Evolution that is.
Here’s why.
Original.
Full EP.
.
A PRIME EVOLUTION: Facebook – Instagram
LEMMY: “Warhol Was Crap!”
29 January 2023
Watch the late loud Motörhead warrior LEMMY and bandmate Eddie Clarke in
a 2002 interview for Belgian TV about rock ‘n’ roll live, strippers, Andy Warhol,
painter Rembrandt, hard-drinking, and more.
Big fun.
MOTÖRHEAD: Bio – Discography
(Image on top: cover of Lemmy‘s biography)
Waking Up With… MOTÖRHEAD Tackling ‘GREEDY BASTARDS’
Works faster and harder than caffeine
27 January 2023
Legendary metalheads MOTÖRHEAD released
their final LP, named BAD MAGIC in 2015.
An expanded reissue – SERIOUSLY BAD MAGIC – is now
set up for release in February 2023. More details here.
The record label just shared one of the rare tracks on it.
It’s a previously unreleased slow-burning rock torch called
GREEDY BASTARDS. A rare moody Lemmy moment.
Middle-finger for the politicians.
MOTÖRHEAD: Website – Facebook – Instagram