Motorhead: Corn Exchange, Cambridge
Ben Thompson, NME, 27 October 1987
"IF WE moved in next door to you your lawn would die" Lemmy once proclaimed gleefully. To a 12-year-old HM fan like myself, Motorhead always seemed a bit rough. The greater subtleties of UFO were always more to my taste.
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