Exclusive Video: A Guided Tour of Lemmy's Apartment

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There are few characters in rock history more deserving of a full-blown documentary than Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister. Not only has he led Motörhead for an incredible 35 years, he's also been a member of Hawkwind, a roadie for Jimi Hendrix, a fixture of the L.A. metal scene for the past two decades and a rock fan since the 1950s.

Lemmy will hit theaters in select U.S. cities in mid-January, and on February 15 it will be available on DVD, Blu-Ray and as a digital download. It features Dave Grohl, Alice Cooper, Slash and many others talking about Lem's legendary status, and features extensive interview footage with Lemmy himself.

In this exclusive preview from the film, we get a guided tour of Lemmy's memorabilia-crammed apartment in Los Angeles: tons of Motörhead memorabilia, as well as a Grammy Award and various plaques, steins, skulls, military helmets, toy tanks, busts and even Lemmy's son, whom he singles out as the most-cherished object in the apartment.

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Song Stories

“V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.”

Fishbone | 1985

Quite a few musicians have utilized initials for song titles -- Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T.," Abba's "S.O.S.," Donald Fagen's "I.G.Y.," etc. But the more curiously initialed tune has to be "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.," short for "Voyage to the Land of the Freeze-Dried Godzilla Farts." Fishbone's original guitarist, Kendall Jones, explained to Rolling Stone, "When Norwood [Fisher] wrote it, he introduced it to the band saying, 'Man, I've been hearing about all these Nazi right-wing groups on the news saying the Holocaust was staged. So what if America said it never dropped two atom bombs on Japan, that it was actually Godzilla popping a couple off?' Only Norwood would come up with something that out." The same year "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F." was released, the film Godzilla 1985 appeared in North America.

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