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"Motorhead" was the last song that Lemmy wrote for Hawkwind before being fired from the band in May 1975. It was originally released as the B-side of the single "Kings of Speed" on United Artists Records in March 1975. [1] The song was written in the Hyatt Hotel (a.k.a. 'Riot House') in West Hollywood, California. Lemmy explains how it was created:
The song reportedly "not only won, but crushed" the other finalist, "Poker Face" by Lady Gaga. [14] It was ranked No. 442 on Rolling Stone's "Top 500 Best Songs of All Time". [15] The same magazine also ranked the song number three on their list of the 100 greatest heavy metal songs. [16]
The original No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith LP includes two songs from their debut album, the title track from 1979's Bomber, five songs from 1979's Overkill, and three songs from Ace of Spades. The track "Motorhead" would be released as a single and become the band's biggest chart hit, reaching number 6 in the UK.
Since Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" in 2009, every video that has reached the top of the "most-viewed YouTube videos" list has been a music video. In November 2005, a Nike advertisement featuring Brazilian football player Ronaldinho became the first video to reach 1,000,000 views. [ 1 ]
Most of the song's just poker, really - 'I know you've got to see me, read 'em and weep, Dead man's hand again, aces and eights' - that was Wild Bill Hickock's hand when he got shot. To be honest, although "Ace of Spades" is a good song, I'm sick to death of it now. Two decades on, when people think of Motörhead, they think "Ace of Spades."
In 2012, Loudwire ranked the song number two on their list of the top 10 Motörhead songs, [7] and in 2021, Louder Sound ranked the song number 12 on their list of the top 50 Motörhead songs. [8] The song was used in sequences set in Hell in Heist, a British TV comedy-drama. The song is featured in the 2006 video game Scarface: The World Is Yours.
"Iron Fist" is a song by the British heavy metal band Motörhead. It was released as a single in 1982, in 7" pressings in blue, black and translucent red vinyl. The title track on the single is covered with ( B-side 's) "Remember Me, I'm Gone", which appears on CD re-issues of the Iron Fist album.
The song became a staple of the band's live set, with live versions being released on the albums No Sleep 'til Hammersmith, Everything Louder than Everyone Else, Live at Brixton Academy, Better Motörhead than Dead: Live at Hammersmith, The Wörld Is Ours - Vol. 2: Anyplace Crazy as Anywhere Else and Clean Your Clock; and on the video releases The Birthday Party, 25 & Alive Boneshaker and The ...