Motorhead spent a six-week period from December 1978 to January 1979 in two studios, these being Roundhouse (where much of the recording was done) and Sound Development, both in London. Jimmy died in 1994 at the age of 52 from liver failure, brought on through years of substance abuse. We had to pull in the same direction to make it work – and Jimmy played his part to the full. It was a case of us being all in it together. He also became the fourth member of Motorhead for the time he worked on the album. For a start, Jimmy knew his way round a studio, and as a band we certainly didn’t. He was happy and always smiling, and made a massive contribution. “I know that Jimmy was never strung out for this project. But on Overkill, he was focused and positive. Jimmy was a recovering drug addict, and his problems with heroin in particular would come back to haunt the band when they subsequently renewed their working relationship for the Bomber album. “It’s a long time ago now, but if memory serves me, we were given a list of four producers from which to choose – and the only guy on that list I’d ever heard of was Jimmy Miller, because he’d previously worked with the Rolling Stones. The band decided to work with producer Jimmy Miller on the album. "But now we could actually stretch ourselves and see where it all led.” It represented what we were doing onstage at the time," said Lemmy. “Realistically, the Motorhead album was no more than a live recording. When Motorhead entered the studio at the end of 1978, it would be the first time that the band actually had the opportunity to do a proper studio record.
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