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Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
Motörhead on the other hand are very much included in that heavy metal thing. My tribute to Lemmy would be that he was genuine, through and through. He never posed behind any manner of falsehood. He was exactly what he stood for: a rock & roller through and through.
I once heard it said that he caught one of his sons, he caught his youngster extolling the virtues of speed. And Lemmy said: "Naw, don’t get too much behind speed. What you want is weed!”
As ZZ Top take their live greatest hits album on tour, their lead singer and guitarist Billy Gibbons talks Kiran Acharya through his top 13 LPs, setting aside some of his more well-worn classics in favour of recent favourites
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