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Motorhead, Saxon: Hackney Stadium, London

Chris Welch, Kerrang!, 12 August 1982

"I DON'T know if it's possible, but there is a fellow over here who wants it turned up." Lemmy has a great sense of humour. Dry. Laconic. A bit like the woodwork master I knew who used to bash us with balsa beams. "Turn it up — to agony," Lemmy chuckled to himself as he directed his request, in response to repeated yells from the crowd, towards the soundmen on the control tower.

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