{"id":560776,"date":"2026-05-01T15:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/560776\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:40:09","slug":"motorhead-bar-opens-in-lemmys-hometown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/560776\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorhead bar opens in Lemmy&#8217;s hometown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stephen &#8216;Krusher&#8217; Joule was a friend to the band and felt &#8220;honoured&#8221; to be the one cutting the ribbon to open the store.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He regularly sees photos of people who have completed the pilgrimage to the statue in the town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;I know that Lemmy would love that, and I know that Burslem must love that because it&#8217;s bringing in tourists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Being in the shop surrounded by various photos of the band brought back memories of when he first worked with them in 1979, creating their tour program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I sat with them in their office I was terrified of them, but they were sweethearts,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I first walked in here, I was absolutely astounded, everything reeks of Motorhead and it is rock and roll,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephen &#8216;Krusher&#8217; Joule was a friend to the band and felt &#8220;honoured&#8221; to be the one cutting the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-560776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}