The legendary British singer’s last wish was as extraordinary as the singer’s life, he wished for his ashes to be contained inside golden bullets to be sent to his closet friends.

The world lost the raspy-voiced icon on 28th December 2015 after he tragically lost his battle to cancer, just four days after the singer’s 70th Birthday. His funeral service held in Los Angeles at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills was live-streamed on YouTube with over 230,000 fans watching to pay their respects.

Riki Rachtman, the former host of MTV’s ‘Headbangers Ball’ from 1990-1995, was one of the lucky few who received one of the golden bullets with his friend’s ashes inside. He recently took to Twitter to display his bullet and thank his friend.

Before his death #Lemmy asked for his ashes to be put in some bullets & handed out to his closest friends Today I received a bullet & was literally brought to tears Thank you @myMotorhead pic.twitter.com/gnI9aWe4iU

— Rev. Riki Rachtman (@RikiRachtman) March 22, 2021

Lemmy had become a symbol of hard living and hard rock n roll during his life and is most remembered as singer and bassist for British rockers ‘Motörhead’. Originally named ‘Bastard’, Lemmy decided to change the name to ‘Motörhead’, which was the name of the last song he had written for ‘Hawkwind’. Forming ‘Motörhead’ in 1975, Lemmy previously was the bassist and vocalist for the band ‘Hawkwind’, famed for their number three hit ‘Silver Machine’. Lemmy was soon kicked out of ‘Hawkwind’ due to a drug arrest In May 1975 whilst on tour in Canada. ‘Motörhead’ would go on to release one of rock’s most popular song, ‘Ace of Spades’ in October 1980. The single would bring the band popularity and immense success, at the time of Lemmy’s death, the single had sold over 208,830 digital copies.

In 2010 a documentary about the icon was released under the name, ‘Lemmy’, and the documentary’s director Greg Oliver has revealed that a new biopic about the singer will be released. After a couple of years in the making, Lemmy fans have been looking forward to the new biopic for a while, with production started early of this year.

The film will follow Lemmy’s life, from his early days when he was Jimi Hendrix’s roadie to his four-year stint in ‘Hawkwind’. It also promises to show the side of Lemmy which existed beneath the hard rocker exterior. Oliver recently had this to say about the biopic in a statement released last year.

“Everything you’ve heard about Lemmy is probably true … not because he was embracing rock n’ roll clichés, but because he was creating them, Marlboro Reds and Jack Daniel’s for breakfast, speed for dinner – all true But behind that steely-eyed façade of Rock’n’Roll was also a compelling, complicated and lion-hearted man who stayed the course and never gave up playing the music that made him happy. We’ve been carefully developing this biopic since 2013, making sure to stay true to Lemmy, Motörhead band members Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee, and all the other folks that played important roles in Lemmy’s life. This will be a film they’ll be proud of.”

The film features a great crew consisting of Andre Relis and Domon Lane as producers, as well as ‘Motörhead’s’ manager, Todd Singerman, working as an executive producer with Steffan Chirazi and written by Medeni Griffiths and Greg Oliver. With a credible source such as Singerman, the biopic is sure to capture all of the mayhem and great music which Lemmy lived by and left for the world.

Photo credit: Raymond Flotat