Book Review : White Line Fever - Lemmy**** Quicky review = Sex and drugs and rock and roll. That pretty much sums it up, Lemmy has always lived lived to the full, and beyond. He loves his music, from his early days with the Rocking Vicars, through his time with prog rock maestros Hawkwind and the three decades plus with thrash metal pioneers Motorhead, Lemmy has always playes it fast and hard. Lemmy has shown a bit of wisdom by enlisting journalist Janiss Garza to co-write his autobiography, with her on board White Line Fever comes over as a much more polished effort than the last autobiography by a rock star that I read, Adam Ant's Stand and Deliver. Whereas the strongest thing to pass Adam's lips though was a cup of strong tea, Lemmy has always been infamous for his narcotic consumption, although he strongly advises against taking as many drugs as he has, and many times in the narrative he warns of the dangers of heroin and laments the many friends in the music industry he has lost to smack. White Line Fever is wry and funny, Lemmy is as blunt as forthright as you would expect, he calls a spade a spade, pointing out the high and the low points of Motorhead's long career. The thing that lets the book down a bit though is Lemmy's refusal to write about his whole life, I've noticed this in a few rock autobiographies, I know fans want to read about the wild gigs, groupies and drug use, but what about friends, families and interests outside metal ? Lemmy has two sons, only one of whom he has any contact with as far as I can gather, but it would make for much more interesting reading were the book to be rounded out with events away from the music arena. That said, it was still a good read, you can't help but smile sometimes as Motorhead stumble, drink, snort, shag, fight and play their way to eventual success. There are namechecks for Metallica, especially Lars Ulrich, who Lemmy praises for the respect and acknowledgement they have given him, there is also praise for Ozzy Osbourne, Girlschool, Twisted Sister, Wendy O Wiliams and the Plasmatics and many others. Lemmy might seem a gruff hard man, but he has many kind words for his friends. I enjoyed this, Lemmy can be a prize lunatic at times, but he's lived a full old life, and when I say old, did you know that the grand old man of speed metal is 62 this year ? It's all the drugs, he's probably unkillable. I may have told this before, many times, but I met Lemmy once. I was at a nightclub, rather the worse for wear, and as I stumbled into the toilets, Lemmy was stumbling out, my brain froze. "Oh wow," I said to his face. "It's Lemmy from Motorhead." "Yeah," he replied. "So fucking what ?"