Editing Lemmy (section)

== Early life ==
Lemmy was born Ian Fraser Kilmister in the [[Burslem]] area of [[Stoke-on-Trent]] on 24 December 1945.{{sfn|Kilmister|Garza|2012|p=5}}<ref name="BBC">{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/content/articles/2009/09/08/lemmy_book_feature.shtml |title=Lemmy: White Line Fever |date=8 September 2009 |website=[[BBC News]] Stoke and Staffordshire |access-date=22 August 2014}}</ref> When he was three months old, his father, an ex-[[Royal Air Force]] chaplain and concert pianist,<ref>{{Cite book |title=Overkill: The Story of Motorhead |first=Joel |last=McIver |publisher=Omnibus Press |date=2011 |isbn=978-1-84938-619-7}}</ref> separated from his mother. He moved with his mother and grandmother to nearby [[Newcastle-under-Lyme]], then to [[Madeley, Staffordshire|Madeley]].<ref name="HWSAGA">{{cite book |last=Clerk |first=Carol |title=The Saga of Hawkwind |publisher=Omnibus Press |date=2004 |isbn=978-1-84449-101-8 |page=546}}</ref> When Ian was 10, his mother married former rugby player George L. Willis, who already had two older children from a previous marriage, Patricia and Tony, whom Ian disliked. They later moved to a farm in the Welsh village of [[Benllech]] on the [[Anglesey|Isle of Anglesey]], with Lemmy commenting that "funnily enough, being the only English kid among 700 Welsh ones didn't make for the happiest time, but it was interesting from an anthropological point of view".<ref>{{cite web |last=Bevan |first=Nathan |url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/classic-interview-lemmy---never-8938554 |title=Classic interview: Lemmy – 'Never go camping with a one armed man' |website=[[Wales Online]] |date=28 March 2015 |access-date=13 November 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117015311/http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/classic-interview-lemmy---never-8938554 |archive-date=17 November 2015}}</ref> He attended [[Ysgol Syr Thomas Jones]], a comprehensive school in [[Amlwch]], where he was nicknamed "Lemmy."<ref>{{Cite web |title=KILMISTER, IAN FRASER (Lemmy) (1945 - 2015), musician {{!}} Dictionary of Welsh Biography |url=https://biography.wales/article/s14-KILM-FRA-1945 |access-date=2024-07-18 |website=biography.wales}}</ref> It was later suggested by some that the name originated from the phrase "lemmy [lend me] a [[pound sterling|quid]] 'til Friday" because of his alleged habit of borrowing money from people to play [[slot machine]]s,<ref name="HWSAGA" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24806076 |title=Obituary: Lemmy, Motorhead frontman |website=BBC News |date=29 December 2015 |access-date=9 January 2016}}</ref><ref name="MVB">''Motorhead Videobiography'' (Double DVD with 48-page book) Edgehill Publishing Ltd., June 2007 {{ISBN|978-1-905954-38-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Levin |first=Hannah |title=An Incomplete History of Motorhead Frontman Lemmy Kilmister |work=[[Seattle Weekly]] |date=2 February 2011 |access-date=26 April 2011 |url=http://www.seattleweekly.com/2011-02-02/music/an-incomplete-history-of-mot-rhead-frontman-lemmy-kilmister/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110210205752/http://www.seattleweekly.com/2011-02-02/music/an-incomplete-history-of-mot-rhead-frontman-lemmy-kilmister/ |archive-date=10 February 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> although Lemmy himself said that he did not know the origin of the name.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vulture.com/2015/12/loud-proud-meaning-of-motorheads-lemmy-kilmister.html |title=The Loud, Proud Meaning of Lemmy, a Heavy-Metal Folk Hero |first=David |last=Marchese |date=29 December 2015 |website=Vulture |access-date=9 January 2016}}</ref> He soon started to show an interest in [[rock and roll]], girls, motorbikes and horses.

At school, Lemmy noticed a pupil who had brought a guitar to school and had been "surrounded by chicks." His mother had a guitar, which he then took to school, and was himself surrounded by girls even though he could not play. By the time he left school, he had moved with his family to [[Conwy]]. He went on to work several odd jobs, including one at the local [[Hotpoint]] electric appliance factory, while also playing guitar for local bands such as the Sundowners and spending time at a horse-riding school.<ref name="HWSAGA" /> He saw [[the Beatles]] perform at [[The Cavern Club]] in Liverpool when he was 16, and then learned to play along on guitar to their debut studio album ''[[Please Please Me]]'' (1963). He also admired the sarcastic attitude of the group, particularly that of [[John Lennon]],<ref>{{cite book |title=The Beatles: 10 Years That Shook The World |publisher=[[Dorling Kindersley]]/[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-7566-0670-1 |page=59 |first=Paul |last=Trynka |author-link=Paul Trynka}}</ref> and later said of the group, "[[Brian Epstein]] cleaned them up for mass consumption, but they were anything but sissies. They were from Liverpool ... a hard, sea-farin' town, all these dockers and sailors around all the time who would beat the piss out of you if you so much as winked at them. ... [[The Rolling Stones]] were the mummy's boys—they were all college students from the outskirts of London. ... The Stones made great records, but they were always shit on stage, whereas the Beatles were the gear."<ref name="autobiog1">{{Cite book |title=White Line Fever: The Autobiography |author=Lemmy |year=2016 |publisher=Simon & Schuster, Limited |isbn=978-1471157653 |oclc=949146340}}</ref>