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His natural habitat is the dressingroom and the tourbus. He drinks Jack Daniels “to sober up”. Lemmy of Motörhead has lived, slept and breathed rock’n’roll for more than four decades but he’s not retiring. RONAN McGREEVYmeets the self-described “63-year-old f**k-up”

THERE IS no more sickly sweet confection than Jack Daniels and Coke, a drink guaranteed to give you the hangover from hell while leaving you strung out on a sleepless caffeine-sugar high. It is best left well alone unless, of course, Lemmy from Motörhead is doing the offering and beckoning you, from behind a wreath of cigarette smoke, to a familiar-looking bottle.