Motörhead‘s surviving members Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee have enshrined the ashes of late frontman, Lemmy.It was confirmed last week that his ashes were scattered in the mud at Germany’s Wacken Open Air festival.
He died in December 2015 at the age of 70, just two days after he revealed that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.Now, footage has also emerged of the surviving band members enshrining their frontman’s ashes, whose real name was Ian Kilmister, at a bar named after Lemmy in the village.At the venue, fans witnessed Campbell and Dee put Lemmy’s ashes, which are housed in a mini version of his custom urn, in a glass display next to his hat, boots, bass guitar, and Marshall stack.
You can view footage below.Onstage at the festival, metal veteran Doro, a personal friend of Lemmy’s, invited Campbell and Dee onstage for Motörhead classics ‘Love Me Forever and ‘Ace Of Spades’.
You can watch footage of the latter below.“Lemmy loved playing Wacken; there was a long relationship as we played for the first time in 1997 and returned many, many times,” Dee stated. “It is quite natural that he is returning now and has another place forever.”Campbell added, “It’s great that Lemmy will be at Wacken forever among such good friends.
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