Ian Kilmister, a.k.a. Lemmy, the frontman for Grammy-winning English rock trio Motorhead, could have made a stimulating history professor, sharing his begrudging admiration for Goering and disdain for “bastards” like Hitler and Roosevelt with eager students.
“I was born in ‘45, the year it all ended,” Kilmister said in a recent interview over Jack Daniels and Cokes at his local watering hole, the Rainbow Bar and Grill. “It’s not ancient history to me, and I don’t see it as all the good English and Americans and all the bad Germans.”
But he lumps Adolf Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Neville Chamberlain and Josef Stalin all in the same category “as lying, thieving, groveling bastards.” Current U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) also annoys him. “Anybody that smiles that much, there must be something wrong with him.”
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