No Sleep 'til Hammersmith
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| Live album by Motörhead | ||||
| Released | 27 June 1981 | |||
| Recorded | 1980; 28–30 March 1981 | |||
| Venue | West Runton Pavillion (Norfolk, England) Queen's Hall (Leeds, England) Maysfield Leisure Centre (Belfast, Northern Ireland) |
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| Genre | Heavy metal, hard rock | |||
| Length | 40:31 (Original) 51:20 (CD Reissue) |
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Bronze (Worldwide) (1981) Mercury (North America) (1981) Castle Communications (1996) Metal-Is (2001) |
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| Producer | Vic Maile | |||
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| Robert Christgau | B+ |
No Sleep ’til Hammersmith is the second live album by the band Motörhead, released on 27 June 1981, on Bronze Records. It peaked at #1 on the UK album charts. It was followed by the release of the single "Motorhead" (coupled with the non-album track "Over the Top") on 11 July, which peaked in the UK singles chart at #6.
After releasing three albums and touring for five years, Motörhead's 1980 album Ace of Spades (their first LP to be released in the United States) gave the band its first taste of major success, although as drummer Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor wryly notes in the documentary The Guts and the Glory, "The more famous we seemed to get, the more we were working all the time, and we just never seemed to see any money…This is how you know you're being ripped off, when they work you like dogs and hardly give you any time off, 'cause when you got a bit of time off you might start thinking about things .' In February, 1981, the band released the St. Valentine's Day Massacre EP co-recorded with Girlschool, and in March headed out on a British jaunt called the "Short Sharp Pain in the Neck" tour, from which the songs on No Sleep 'til Hammersmith would be culled.
The original No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith LP includes two songs from their debut album, the title track from 1979's Bomber, five songs from 1979's Overkill, and three songs from Ace of Spades. The track "Motorhead" would be released as a single and become the band's biggest hit to date, reaching #6 on the U.K. chart. With the exception of "Iron Horse/Born To Lose," which was from a 1980 show, No Sleep 'til Hammersmith was recorded at the Leeds and Newcastle shows during the Short Sharp Pain In The Neck tour. The name of the tour was a reference to the injury sustained by Taylor when he was dropped on his head during some after-show horseplay.
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