Motorhead Archives - Desperate Living

Italian lounge-metal covers that work more effectively than you might expect.

The strange world of cash-in heavy metal music magazines at the start of the 1980s.

Remembering the glory days of the British rock underground.

When everything becomes the same, it all ceases to have any importance. Looking into youth culture’s sad slide into insignificance.

The age of the rebellious hedonist is over. The dullards have taken over.

Hilarious boasts of rock ‘n’ roll excess meet extraordinarily generic Euro Metal.

Exploring the glory days of 1980s British metal and the bands who made it what it was.

The legendary 1982 performance from the New York glam rockers, with added Lemmy.

The former hard-drinking shock rocker eschews the trend for rock band beer by endorsing flavoured milk.

The artistic beginning of the end for Dario Argento.

The original space rockers and author Michael Moorcock join forces for a seminal concept album.

How an ill-fated collaboration between Lemmy and Wendy O. Williams caused Motörhead’s classic line-up to shatter.