Motorhead’s breakthrough Overkill now stands as a widely praised, towering achievement in heavy-rock history. That's wonderfully ironic since the album should, by all rights, have never even happened.

Motörhead’s Ace of Spades, Overkill, and Bomber return to four U.K. charts each as fans celebrate the band’s 50th anniversary. (MANDATORY CREDIT Watal Asanuma/Shinko Music/Getty Images) British hard ...

During the course of 365 days, the group put out 'Overkill' and 'Bomber,' two albums that inspired everybody from Metallica to Mudhoney to play over the top Although Overkill was the band’s second ...

They performed thousands of concerts and recorded hundreds of songs, across a whopping 22 studio albums, during that time. But all that may have never happened if it wasn't for Motorhead's first album ...

Clarke played on Motorhead’s self-titled 1977 debut album and also played on 1979’s ‘Overkill’ and ‘Bomber’, 1980’s ‘Ace Of Spades’ and 1982’s ‘Iron Fist’ (Rex) “Fast” Eddie Clarke, the last original ...