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When Lemmy’s Fast Work Amazed Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne remembered the time Lemmy Kilmister proved how fast he worked by writing three sets of lyrics and reading a book in a single four-hour period.
The Black Sabbath singer described the late Motorhead frontman as his “rock god” in a recently broadcast interview with BBC Radio 2. He also discussed the experience of writing the song “Mama, I’m Coming Home” with Kilmister for Osbourne's 1991 solo album No More Tears.
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“I’m good at starting lyrics, but I can’t finish them,” Osbourne said. “He’d write a bunch of lyrics for my songs. … I’d give him a tape, and I had this book on World War II. I haven’t read it, and I tell him, ‘Tell me what you think. And I have a bunch of these lyrics [for] whenever you can.” He expected to hear from Lemmy in about a week but instead the bassist told him: “Come back in about four hours.”
“So I got back, and he goes, ‘What do you think about these?’ And I go, ‘Oh, great.’ He then goes, ‘What about these?’ I go, ‘Oh, you got two?’ He goes, ‘No, I got another one – three.’ I go, ‘You have written three sets of lyrics?’ He said, ‘Yeah … and that book was crap!’ I said, ‘What book?’ He says, ‘The book you gave me.’”
Describing Kilmister as “a guy who shot from the hip every time,” Osbourne noted that "he was a speed reader. He could read really fast. He was amazing! You look at people like Lemmy and you think, ‘Oh, he's a yob.’ But he was very well-educated.”
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