Dec 29, 2015

Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister, frontman of the influential British metal band Motorhead, died Monday after a short and aggressive battle with cancer, the band announced. He was 70.

: British rock band Motorhead posed in Islington, London in December 1980. L-R Lemmy Kilmister, Phil ‘Philthy Animal’ Taylor, ‘Fast’ Eddie Clarke. (Photo by Fin Costello/Redferns)

: Musician Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead performs onstage during day 3 of the 2014 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on April 20, 2014 in Indio, California. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Coachella)

: Musician Lemmy of Motorhead attends The 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards at the STAPLES Center on February 8, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

: This file photo taken on June 26, 2015 shows the lead singer and bassist for British rock band Motorhead, Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister, performing on the Pyramid Stage on the first official date of the Glastonbury Festival of Music and Performing Arts on Worthy Farm near the village of Pilton in Somerset, southwest England. Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister, the frontman of iconic British heavy metal band Motorhead, has died aged 70 of a sudden, aggressive cancer, the group said on December 29, 2015. (Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images)

: This June 26, 2015 file photo shows Motorhead bassist Lemmy Kilmister performing on the Pyramid stage during Glastonbury Music Festival at Worthy Farm, Glastonbury, England. Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister, the Motorhead frontman whose outsized persona made him a hero for generations of hard-rockers and metal-heads, has died on Monday, Dec. 28, 2015. (Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, file)

: Motorhead’s Lemmy Kilmister performs on stage for day three of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., in 2014. Kilmister has died at age 70. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

: Lemmy Kilmister from Motorhead points to a tour case backstage at City Hall in Newcastle, England on March 22nd 1982. (Fin Costello/Redferns)

: Singer and bassist Lemmy Kilmister from Motorhead posed backstage at Top Of The Pops TV Studios in London in February 1981. (Fin Costello/Redferns)

: Lemmy Kilmister from Motorhead posed sitting strapped to an Electric Chair prop and smoking a cigarette during the photo session for the ‘Killed By Death’ single in Pimlico, London in July 1984. (Fin Costello/Redferns)

: Lemmy Kilmister, British rock bassist and singer with British heavy metal band Motorhead, poses with his bass guitar with fireworks attached, firing sparks from the body, circa 1978. (Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images)

: Lemmy Kilminster of Motorhead performs on stage on June 12th, 2005 at day three of the Download Festival, in Donington Park England. (Dave Etheridge-Barnes/Getty Images)

: Posed studio group portrait L-R Eddie Clarke, Phil Taylor and Lemmy (Fin Costello/Redferns)

: Posed group portrait of Motorhead in a Pimlico scrapyard with Lemmy (Ian Kilmister) (standing on car) in 1984. Left to Right: Phil Campbell, Pete Gill, Lemmy Kilmister, Mick “Wurzel” Burston. (Fin Costello/Redferns)

Remembering Lemmy Kilmister

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