{"id":65042,"date":"2018-01-10T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T00:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=65042"},"modified":"2018-01-13T13:57:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T13:57:42","slug":"news-former-motorhead-guitarist-fast-eddie-clarke-dies-aged-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-former-motorhead-guitarist-fast-eddie-clarke-dies-aged-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Former MOT\u00d6RHEAD Guitarist \u2018Fast\u2019 Eddie Clarke Dies Aged 67 (January 10th, 2018) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former MOT\u00d6RHEAD Guitarist \u2018Fast\u2019 Eddie Clarke Dies Aged 67<\/strong><\/span>
\nJanuary 10th, 2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Mot\u00f6rhead 1982 (l-r): Phil \u2018Philthy Animal\u2019 Taylor, Ian \u2018Lemmy\u2019 Kilmister and \u2018Fast\u2019 Eddie Clarke<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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\n\u2018Fast\u2019 Eddie Clarke, former guitarist for hard rock group Mot\u00f6rhead, as well as his own band Fastway, died on January 10th, 2018 at the age of 67.<\/p>\n

Mot\u00f6rhead issued the following statement: \u201cWe are devastated to pass on the news we only just heard ourselves earlier tonight… Edward Allan Clarke – or as we all know and love him Fast Eddie Clarke – passed away peacefully yesterday. Ted Carroll (who formed Chiswick Records) made the sad announcement via his Facebook page, having heard from Doug Smith that Fast Eddie passed peacefully in hospital where he was being treated for pneumonia. Fast Eddie… keep roaring, rockin\u2019 and rollin\u2019 up there as goddamit man, your Mot\u00f6rfamily would expect nothing less!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

Guitarist Phil Campbell, who was a member of Mot\u00f6rhead between 1984 and 2015, commented: \u201cJust heard the sad news that Fast Eddie Clarke has passed away. Such a shock, he will be remembered for his iconic riffs and was a true rock \u2018n\u2019 roller. RIP Eddie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scorpions drummer Mikkey Dee, who played with Mot\u00f6rhead from 1992 to 2015, added: \u201cOh my fucking God, this is terrible news. The last of the three amigos. I saw Eddie not too long ago and he was in great shape. So this is a complete shock.<\/p>\n

\u201cMe and Eddie always hit it off great. I was looking forward to seeing him in the UK this summer when we come around with the Scorps. Now Lem and Philthy can jam with Eddie again, and if you listen carefully I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll hear them, so watch out!!! My thoughts go out to Eddie\u2019s family and close ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edward Allan Clarke was born on October 5th, 1950 in Twikenham, London, England. His musical career began in the late 1960s when he began playing in numerous local bands, eventually turning professional in 1973 when he joined the progressive blues rock group Curtis Knight Zeus as lead guitarist. Clarke recorded two albums with Curtis Knight Zeus \u2013 Sea Of Time<\/em> (1973) and The Second Coming<\/em> (1974) \u2013 before leaving to form the rock band Blue Goose.<\/p>\n

After being fired from Blue Goose, Clarke then collaborated with Be-Bop Deluxe bassist Charlie Tumahai in a new project called Continuous Performance. However, having failed to secure a record deal the band split-up in early 1975.<\/p>\n

Clarke temporarily quit the music industry, and was working on re-fitting a houseboat when he met drummer Phil \u2018Philthy Animal\u2019 Taylor, who had just joined Mot\u00f6rhead. Taylor introduced Clarke to Mot\u00f6rhead frontman Ian \u2018Lemmy\u2019 Kilmister, and ended up joining in early 1976 in what was to become known at the \u201cclassic\u201d Mot\u00f6rhead line-up.<\/p>\n

The guitarist appeared on five of the band\u2019s full-length studio albums \u2013 Mot\u00f6rhead<\/em> (1977), Overkill<\/em> (1979), Ace Of Spades<\/em> (1980), Bomber<\/em> (1979) and Iron Fist<\/em> (1982) \u2013 as well as the 1981 iconic live album No Sleep \u2019Til Hammersmith<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Clarke parted ways with Mot\u00f6rhead in 1982 during a North American tour. The guitarist\u2019s last gig with the band was at the New York Palladium on May 14th, 1982.<\/p>\n

In 1983 Clarke formed hard rock combo Fastway, releasing a self-titled debut album in April of that year. Fastway went on to release a further six studio albums, All Fired Up<\/em> (1984), Waiting For The Roar<\/em> (1985), Trick Or Treat<\/em> (1986), On Target<\/em> (1988), Bad Bad Girls<\/em> (1990) and comeback record Eat Dog, Eat<\/em> (2011).<\/p>\n

\u2018Fast\u2019 Eddie Clarke also released two solo albums; March 1994\u2019s It Ain’t Over Till It\u2019s Over<\/em>, and April 2014\u2019s Make My Day \u2013 Back To Blues<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former MOT\u00d6RHEAD Guitarist \u2018Fast\u2019 Eddie Clarke Dies Aged 67 January 10th, 2018 Mot\u00f6rhead 1982 (l-r): Phil \u2018Philthy Animal\u2019 Taylor, Ian \u2018Lemmy\u2019 Kilmister and \u2018Fast\u2019 Eddie Clarke \u2018Fast\u2019 Eddie Clarke, former guitarist for hard rock group Mot\u00f6rhead, as well as his own band Fastway, died on January 10th, 2018 at the age of 67. Mot\u00f6rhead issued […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2995,1726],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fastway-news","category-motorhead-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65042"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65127,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65042\/revisions\/65127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}