Motorhead star Lemmy ashes enshrined in London club Stringfellows
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Lemmy’s Motorhead bandmate joked that his friend is “going to have a good view”. Motorhead guitarist Phil Campbell has celebrated his late bandmate Lemmy after the frontman’s ashes were permanently laid to rest behind the bar of his favourite London nightclub - Stringfellows.
Lemmy, real name Ian Kilmister, died in December 2015 in his Los Angeles apartment from prostate cancer, cardiac arrhythmia, and congestive heart failure. The singer and bassist had been suffering from ill health since August of that year. Kilmister, born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1945 was the only continuous member of Motorhead, the hard rock band which he co-founded in 1975.
![[Robert Kiewik, Phil Campbell and Mick Stevenson posing at Stringfellows nightclub in London]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/19/11/SEI233694999.jpg)
On Wednesday, some of his ashes were installed in an urn shaped like his trademark cavalry hat at the bar, guided by instructions in the British star’s will. At the ceremony honouring his friend, Campbell joked that Lemmy is “going to have a good view” from behind Stringfellows’ bar, the London gentleman’s club where he was “a regular”.
Campbell, who joined Motorhead as a guitarist in 1984 until the band disbanded in 2015 after the death of their bandmate, said he travelled from his home in Wales for the installation of the urn. “He’d love it,” Campbell told the PA news agency. “He’s going to have a good view, so it’s a great place to put some of his ashes to rest in London in Stringfellows, especially because he really enjoyed going there when he had a night off.
