Bomber
Album by Motörhead
Release	July 7, 1979
Recorded	July 7 to August 31, 1979
Genre(s)	Heavy Metal
Length	36 min 30 sec
Label	Bronze Records
Producer	Jimmy Miller
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Motörhead chronology
Overkill (1979)	Bomber (1979)	Ace of Spades (1980)

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". Image File history File links This image is of a music album or single cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the album or the artist(s) which produced the music in question. ... Look up Album in Wiktionary, the free dictionary An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things. ... Phil, Mikkey and Lemmy Motörhead are a canonical British speed metal band. ... July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining. ... August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining, as the final day of August. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Heavy metal is a form of music characterised by aggressive, driving rhythms and highly amplified distorted guitars, generally with grandiose lyrics and virtuosic instrumentation. ... A minute is: a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour and to 60 seconds. ... The second (symbol s) is a unit for time, and one of seven SI base units. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... In the music industry, a record producer is responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. ... Jimmy Miller (1944-1994) was a Brooklyn-born record producer who produced albums for The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, The Rolling Stones (all albums from Beggars Banquet to Goats Head Soup), New York Citys shock/punk rockers The Plasmatics and Motörhead. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... Description: Rating stars. ... Phil, Mikkey and Lemmy Motörhead are a canonical British speed metal band. ... Overkill is the second album recorded by Motörhead in 1979. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... Ace of Spades is the fifth album by the British speed metal band Motörhead. ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Phil, Mikkey and Lemmy Motörhead are a canonical British speed metal band. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... Overkill is the second album recorded by Motörhead in 1979. ... Phil, Mikkey and Lemmy Motörhead are a canonical British speed metal band. ... Bomber is a song by the heavy metal band Motörhead. ... Fast Eddie Clarke Edward Clarke, better known as Fast Eddie Clarke, is a guitarist who was a member of the British heavy metal bands Fastway and Motörhead. ...

During the recording of this album, the producer Jimmy Miller was increasingly under the influence of heroin, at one point dissapearing 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 German WWII 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 2 CD reissue of Bomber was released in June 2005 to coincide with Motorhead's 30th anniversary tour. Although this seemed a super idea at the time, the bonus tracks (bar one) on the second CD 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. Ian Lemmy Kilmister (born Ian Fraser Kilmister, December 24, 1945, also known as Ian Fraser Willis) is an English bass player and singer. ... Philthy Animal Taylor Phil Taylor, better known as Philthy Animal Taylor, was the drummer in the British speed metal band, Motörhead from 1975 to 1984 and 1987 - 1992. ... Fast Eddie Clarke Edward Clarke, better known as Fast Eddie Clarke, is a guitarist who was a member of the British heavy metal bands Fastway and Motörhead. ...

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

The CD re-issues have added tracks; Bomber is a song by the heavy metal band Motörhead. ...

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 bands successfull The Golden Years EP, released the following year.

The Golden Years is a live EP by the British heavy metal group Motörhead. ...

Personnel

• Lemmy Kilmister - bass, vocals
• "Fast" Eddie Clarke - guitar
• Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor - drums

Ian Lemmy Kilmister (born Ian Fraser Kilmister, December 24, 1945, also known as Ian Fraser Willis) is an English bass player and singer. ... Fast Eddie Clarke Edward Clarke, better known as Fast Eddie Clarke, is a guitarist who was a member of the British heavy metal bands Fastway and Motörhead. ... Philthy Animal Taylor Phil Taylor, better known as Philthy Animal Taylor, was the drummer in the British speed metal band, Motörhead from 1975 to 1984 and 1987 - 1992. ...

Links

Bomber on Amazon.com