Bomber (album)

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Bomber is Motörhead's third released (fourth recorded) album. It was recorded in 1979, the same year as Overkill. The album reached number 12 on the UK charts and brought some of Motörhead's most popular songs, like "Bomber", "Dead Men Tell No Tales" and "Stone Dead Forever". It also featured "Fast" Eddie Clarke on vocals on "Step Down".

During the recording of this album, the producer Jimmy Miller was increasingly under the influence of heroin, at one point disappearing entirely from the studio, later being found asleep at the wheel of his car. Ironically the album features the band's first anti-heroin song - "Dead Men Tell No Tales".

The album was followed by a tour, for which a forty foot aluminium tube replica of a Heinkel He 111 bomber was made. This lighting rig could fly backwards and forwards, and side to side - the first to be able to do so.

A special double CD reissue of Bomber was released in June 2005 to coincide with Motörhead's 30th anniversary tour. The bonus tracks (bar one) on the second CD, however, have all previously been available.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Lemmy Kilmister, Phil Taylor, Eddie Clarke. On the CD re-issues the added track "Leaving Here" is by Holland, Dozier, Holland.

"Dead Men Tell No Tales" - 3:07
"Lawman" - 4:03
"Sweet Revenge" - 4:10
"Sharpshooter" - 3:19
"Poison" 2:54
"Stone Dead Forever" - 4:54
"All The Aces" - 3:24
"Step Down" - 3:41
"Talking Head" - 3:40
"Bomber" - 3:43

The CD re-issues have added tracks;

11. "Over The Top" - 3:21

12. "Leaving Here" (live) - 3:02

13. "Stone Dead Forever" (live) - 5:20

14. "Dead Men Tell No Tales" (live) - 2:54

15. "Too Late, Too Late" (live) - 3:21

:Tracks 12 through 15 were taken from the band's successful The Golden Years EP, released the following year.

Personnel

Lemmy Kilmister - bass, vocals
"Fast" Eddie Clarke - guitar
Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor - drums
Joe Petagno - sleeve artwork

External links

[Bomber on Amazon.com]

Members
Motörhead
Lemmy Kilmister - Phil Campbell - Mikkey Dee
Former members: Larry Wallis - Fast Eddie Clarke - Brian Robertson - Wurzel
Lucas Fox - Philthy Animal Taylor - Pete Gill
Discography
Albums: On Parole - Motörhead - Overkill - Bomber - Ace of Spades - No Sleep 'til Hammersmith - Iron Fist - Another Perfect Day - No Remorse - Orgasmatron - Rock 'n' Roll - No Sleep at All - 1916 - March ör Die - Bastards - Sacrifice - Overnight Sensation - Snake Bite Love - Everything Louder Than Everyone Else - We Are Motörhead - The Best Of - Hammered - Live at Brixton Academy - Inferno - BBC Live & In-Session - Kiss of Death
EPs - Singles - DVDs

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