MOTORHEAD – OVERKILL LP – Nr MINT A3/B2 UK 1979 LEMMY

Motorhead – Overkill
(Bronze Records  1979  BRON515)
Matrix No’s: A2/B1 – UK Pressing

Sleeve in Excellent/Very Good+ condition
– some wear to edges/corners, sticker discolouration mark top left corner, crease on top right corner

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some light surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

Motörhead were an English rock band formed in June 1975 by bassist, singer, and songwriter Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister, who was the sole constant member, guitarist Larry Wallis and drummer Lucas Fox. The band are often considered a precursor to the new wave of British heavy metal, which re-energised heavy metal in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Though several guitarists and drummers have played in Motörhead, most of their best-selling albums and singles feature the work of “Fast” Eddie Clarke on guitar and Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor on drums.

Motörhead released 23 studio albums, 10 live recordings, 12 compilation albums, and five EPs over a career spanning 40 years. Usually a power trio, they had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Top 40 chart. The albums Overkill, Bomber, Ace of Spades, and particularly No Sleep ’til Hammersmith cemented Motörhead’s reputation as a top-tier rock band. The band are ranked number 26 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. As of 2016, they have sold more than 15 million albums worldwide.

Motörhead are typically classified as heavy metal, and their fusion of punk rock into the genre helped to pioneer speed metal and thrash metal. Their lyrics typically covered such topics as war, good versus evil, abuse of power, promiscuous sex, substance abuse, and, most famously, gambling, the latter theme being the focus of their hit song “Ace of Spades”.

Motörhead has been credited with being part of and influencing numerous musical scenes,thrash metal and speed metal especially. From the mid-1970s onward however, Lemmy insisted that they were a rock and roll band. He has said that they had more in common with punk bands, but with their own unique sound, Motörhead is embraced in both punk and metal scenes.

Lemmy died on 28 December 2015 after being initially diagnosed with an undisclosed aggressive form of cancer, which was later revealed as prostate cancer, and heart failure, after which drummer Mikkey Dee and guitarist Phil Campbell both confirmed that Motörhead would not continue as a band.

Overkill is the second album by Motörhead, released in 1979. It was their first for Bronze Records, and peaked at #24 on the UK charts. The album had a big impact in the British punk culture of that time, paving the way for UK82. Kerrang! magazine listed the album at #46 among the “100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time”.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Ian Kilmister, Phil Taylor and Eddie Clarke.

Personnel

• Lemmy (Ian Kilmister) – bass guitar, vocals, second guitar solo on “Limb From Limb”
• “Fast” Eddie Clarke – rhythm and lead guitar
• Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor – drums

• Joe Petagno – sleeve artwork
• Recorded December 1978 – January 1979 at Roundhouse Studios and Sound Development Studios, UK (except “Tear Ya Down”, originally recorded at Wessex Studios)
• Produced by Jimmy Miller (except “Tear Ya Down”, produced by Neil Richmond, remixed at Roundhouse Studios by Jimmy Miller)
• Engineered by Ashley Howe and Trevor Hallesy