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"There was half a bloodn pig's head in there!"

Lemmy’s colleagues and friends tell their favourite stories…

Former Bronze A&R Howard Thompson on… Lemmy’s first meeting with him

“He unrolls his shirtsleeve, revealing a bag of a white-ish powder, into which he sticks the business end of a switchblade and draws it out – the tip full of what I figure is amphetamine sulphate and holds it under

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