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Motörhead founder Lemmy Kilmister at Glastonbury Festival (2015)
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Legends live forever, they say.
Lemmy Kilmister was a legend for many - and particularly loyal companions of the Motörhead frontman must have thought of this when they received very special memorabilia from the artist or even from the artist.
As reported by "Rolling Stone" among others, close friends are said to have received parts of Kilmister's cremated remains.
Before his death, the heavy metal pioneer had decreed that part of his ashes should be put into cartridge cases and that the cans should then be given away in this form.
"Literally moved to tears"
On Twitter, for example, the British TV star Riki Rachtman, who claims to have received one of these rather unusual urns, was extremely moved.
"Before he died, Lemmy asked that his ashes be put in some balls and distributed to his closest friends." He was "literally moved to tears" by today's gesture.
Kilmister died of cancer in late 2015 at the age of 70.
The musician had only found out about the disease a few days before his death.
Kilmister was considered a pioneer of the heavy metal scene.
He founded the band Motörhead in 1975.
Before Rachtman, according to "Rolling Stone", the former tennis professional Pat Cash had already published a picture.
There was also an object in the form of a bullet on which the name Lemmy was engraved.
Cash is said to have received it from Whitfield Crane, the singer of the American hard rock band Ugly Kid Joe.
Lemmy Kilimster also enjoys widespread posthumous recognition.
Two years after his death, scientists at the London Natural History Museum (NHM) named a prehistoric crocodile "Lemmysuchus obtusidens" after him.
A commercial for milk, which Kilmister is said to have shot for a Finnish company shortly before his death, also caused a stir.
The musician was thus best known for consuming large amounts of whiskey.
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