According to The Guardian, Motorhead's Lemmy is being investigated by German prosecutors, after he wore a Nazi hat in a photoshoot for one of the country's newspapers. Under German law, all Nazi paraphernalia is illegal, which is something you'd have thought someone at the paper might have known and pointed out. But then, you'd have thought even Lemmy might have been a little sensitive to people's feelings about Nazi-related things in Germany. Maybe. A little bit.
No statement has been issued by Lemmy as yet, but in a recent interview with New York Waste, he said: "I don't only collect Nazi stuff, I collect objects from all the Axis countries. Also from countries who aren't even mentioned anymore as former parts of the Axis. Like Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Hungary. From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis. They all had killer uniforms. I mean, the SS uniform is fucking brilliant! They were the rock stars of that time. What you're gonna do? They just look good. It's not a nationalistic kind of thing. Don't tell me I'm a Nazi cause I have uniforms. In 1967 I had my first black girlfriend and a lot more ever since then. I just don't understand racism, I never thought it was an option".