Film director goes to Amlwch for Lemmy: The Movie
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| 12:55 UK time, Monday, 15 February 2010
A film director working on a biopic on Lemmy, the frontman of Motorhead and once of Hawkwind, has gone to Lemmy's primary school in Amlwch to find out more about his formative years.
Headmaster Emyr Williams of Ysgol Syr Thomas Jones in Amlwch said, "I was in the deputy's office and a gentleman came to the door. He explained he was a film producer and was very confident, as Americans are."
"I was a little doubtful to begin with, because we do have a security door on reception and I don't know how he got past it, but then realised there was a camera crew outside."
Lemmy - real name an Fraser Willis - had attended the Anglesey school in the 1950s. He was always really into music and we used to play a bit in Benllech," said school friend, Bill Murrell. "We used to go and watch the Anglesey Stranglers, a group from our school who played in Benllech Memorial Hall."
Williams added, "I believe that he was expelled from here. There was something in the newspaper about a teacher trying to give him the cane. I don't know if it's true, but I don't think he left on the best of terms."
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