Quote: Sarc @ 13th May 2016, 11:18 PM BST
I've just finished reading Lemmy by Mick Wall.
If you've not seen the docufilm called Lemmy it's well worth checking out. HMV music DVD section. It shows what a down to earth and kind bloke he was and there is a lot of him and his son together along with interviews with countless celebrity Lemmy fans like Dave Grohl, Lars Ulrich, Henry Rollins, Slash etc and footage of them all in the studio recording. Superb stuff and I'm going to have to put it on now I think what made Lemmy so special and what the DVD shows is how approachable he was and he never snapped at people. Anyone from kids to grannies could speak to him and he would be polite and friendly.
I'm reading Mozart's Letters Mozart's Life translated by Robert Spaethling and I worship Mozart so it's the best book I have ever picked up and I'm still on the early chapters. It starts with him at 14 on his first tour with his dad who would write to Mozart's mum frequently and Wolfgang would add post scripts to his sister. All while still writing new works. It shows what a loving son and brother he is and is very affectionate and sometimes jokingly mocking to his sister. He's exited about visiting new places and meeting people but also has a charming sense of humour that boarders on coarseness at times but is always endearing. I'm up to a new chapter where he is now 19 and is embarking on his next major tour around Europe but this time with his mother and his dad stays at home. This will be a different side of him because he's an adult now and has to take care of day to day affairs and document these in regular letters to his dad. I've not started it yet and it's not going to be the happy go lucky tone like the opening chapters because during this chapter his mother dies.
This is a good example of the opening pages:
To his mother and sister in Saltzburg (postscript)
I am also still alive and jollie as ever. And I love to travel: now I have been on the merditeranian sea* I kiss mama's hand and I kiss Nannerl 1000 times, and am
your son, Simple Simon and brother Jack
*authors note: Wolfgang spells Mediterranean as "merditeranian" because he could not resist a pun. 'merda' in Italian and 'merde' in French mean "shit" so in Wolfgang's description the Mediterranean Sea becomes the "Shit Sea".