Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers: The Rise of Motörhead

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Martin Popoff does it again by writing another fine book. This book covers the original classic Motorhead, all who are now dead. Plenty of info and fact about this classic era of the band. A must have for any Motorhead fan.

Great read on the band's early years. Highly recommend!

Nice book

Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers, The Rise of Motorhead by Martin Popoff was received direct from the publisher. Motorhead, the iconic metal band a person can arguably say that most everyone in the civilized world has at least heard a riff from, rocked the world for many years. The band had members come and go, but this book focuses on the original band's rise, the formidable years of 1976-1982, when the band got larger than life. The lead singer and faceman of the band always claimed the band was a punk band, not a heavy metal band, the annals of history may disagree. If you want to read stories like you were there with the band as they rose to fame, and argued and drank beer and raised hell, this is definitely a book for you to grab.4 stars

First off, if you are reading this and are not yet familiar with Martin Popoff, you should be. Martin writes on hard rock and heavy metal from a fan's perspective (albeit a very knowledgeable fan's perspective) and his love for the music and bands he writes about really shines throughout his work. This book deals with the "classic line-up" of Motorhead (the Kilmister, Taylor, Clarke era) and their groundbreaking albums that helped shape and influence what would later become speed metal. From the early days of a band whose career was almost cut short before it even began to the demise of both Phil and Lemmy 40 years later this book is filled with personal recollections from all three members interviewed over several years by the author. It also contains Popoff's usual high standard of band ephemera reproduction as well as many wonderful photos that were new to me (including some credited to the author himself). Bottom Line: This book is a must-read for fans of Motorhead and highly recommended to all fans of true rock 'n' roll. And after you pick up Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers check out the rest of Martin Popoff's treasure trove of material. You will not be disappointed.P.S. I prefer to order my books directly from author's website rather than support the wonderful corporate giant upon whose site I am currently posting this review. But you do what you like. Cheers.

I love heavy metal, and love reading about music, and Popoff is my favorite metal writer! I'm loving this book! I'm sure there is some huge biography on Lemmy out there, but what I like about this volume is that it focuses only on the years of the best line-up Motorhead ever had, with Filthy Phil and Fast Eddie. Popoff turns this into a story of a group of outcasts climbing their way to success, despite the fact that the world pretty much hated them.Popoff is a fantastic writer, so the prose is clear and funny and the story is compelling. Since much of the book comes from interviews of the band themselves, the PERSONALITIES involved really shine through, and that's what interests me the most. Popoff starts the book by describing how this line-up came together, then spends the rest of the book focusing on each release they put out, so you also get the kind of critical review of each album that Popoff is famous for. It's fun to listen to each album while reading the chapter about it.It's a quick, fun read with lots of great photos. Any fan of Motorhead or the history of heavy music should purchase this immediately!

This is a great book about the early years of Motorhead when they had their original line up. It's interesting how the author tells the story by letting the band do all the talking and it kind of gives this book a feel like watching a documentary. Most of it is taken from interviews by Philthy Phil and Fast Eddie. And of course there's some comments from Lemmy here and there. The approach works well here. There's a lot of interesting stories some of which are pretty funny.

A book just on the Lemmy Phil Eddie line up. This book differs to most on the subject of Motorhead in that it is refreshingly free of the whole " louder than a plane full of pigs crashing into an atom bomb" type of nonsense. There was actually more to this band than whizz and volume and this book does a good job of saying so. I happily admit to having been totally obsessed with Motorhead throughout this period...but i still learned loads about the band...how they bussed from counterculture to TOTP and then shot themselves in each other's feet. There were no winners...but the pleasure is to play innit?Best book on Motorhead that I've read.

Just brought this for my Kindle on my iphone (because then i can multi task, between reading and listening to music, see clever) already half way through it, love it, recommended. Still miss Lemmy though, RIP.

Excellent book.Never got to see this line up (first Motorhead gig was in 1984) so it was interesting to read Fast Eddie and Philthy's version of events as well as Lemmy's. Every Motorhead fan should have a copy

Very interesting indeed

Anorther fantastic Martin Popoff book!