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This line-up would make one album together, 1983’s Another Perfect Day, an album Lemmy considered ‘very good’, despite it getting a pasting in the press. Robertson was fired shortly after its release. At the start of the decade Lemmy was to return to Stoke, then north Wales in successive years, to headline football stadiums with his band. The two gigs would go very differently.

Twisted Sister had it’s first ever performance in England (sic)’ recalled the band’s frontman Dee Snider in 2015. ‘No record out, nobody had ever seen the band there…was opening for Motörhead at a football stadium…huge show.. Motörhead were huge… and we had to go on in the daylight…never done that before…we’d heard that bands that wore make up had been unceremoniously bottled off stage. We were pretty terrified….and Lemmy, he knew the smell of human excrement! He came in and said ‘I wanna introduce you guys’, which I thought was the most gracious thing for a headliner to do’. The poor crowd was not the only thing that went wrong on the day. For some reason the stage had been set up in front of the Wrexham Lager stand (then the Yale stand), the result being that the PA was facing the town’s Maelor hospital, less than a mile away. When my mum and my stepfather married we moved to his house in Benllech, a seaside resort on Anglesey. It was about this time that I began to be known as Lemmy. It was a Welsh thing I believe… I’ve been known as Lemmy since I was around ten.’ Snider called it ‘one of the most memorable reactions of my career’ and is to this day grateful for Lemmy’s intervention in Wrexham for helping them on the way during their first trip to Europe.In my eyes they were a gang. They were like these three dudes who pretty much did everything together…. Lars (Ulrich) and I were absolutely inspired by the fact that these guys like what they do, they hang out together, they live the life’, said Metallica frontman James Hetfield. Much like Wrexham AFC, who had just been relegated to the Third Division, Motörhead were on their way down. Advert for the Motorhead, Racecourse, Wrexham show For the lifelong fan to the newcomer, you can also complete your record collection with our huge selection of Motörhead LPs and re-released albums. This was a crushing disappointment to the band’s fans. James Hetfield certainly wasn’t the only one to feel so strongly about the ‘Three Amigos’. As future Kerrang! and Mojo editor Phil Alexander says, ‘we loved Eddie and the classic line-up and seeing it fall apart felt sad’.

This was the very next day. Phil Alexander was at the gig and remembers ‘Robbo came on wearing shorts, seemingly playing a different song from the rest of the band as the opener. It was terrible’.Motörhead’s first UK gig since Clarke’s departure was to be on July 24th 1982 at The Racecourse, a venue which showed the kind of numbers that were expected. It didn’t happen. As the Wrexham Evening Leader reported, ‘the large open spaces on The Racecourse tell the story of a festival that turned out to be a flop… the expected 10,000 crowd never materialised and the festival was attended only by an estimated two thousand people’. The gig was a massive success, the crowning point of the ‘classic line up’s’ (Lemmy on bass and vocals, ‘Fast’ Eddie Clarke on guitar, Phil ‘Philthy Animal’ Taylor on drums) imperial period.