GREAT MOMENTS IN METAL
JULY 14, 1945 Tiny Ian Kilminster—later to be renamed Lemmy and to play bass in the group Motorhead—emerges wailing from the womb somewhere in Wales. A crack team of obstetricians works around the clock to push him back in, but to no avail. AUGUST 14, 1948
GREAT MOMENTS IN METAL
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Anastasia Finn
JULY 14, 1945
Tiny Ian Kilminster—later to be renamed Lemmy and to play bass in the group Motorhead—emerges wailing from the womb somewhere in Wales. A crack team of obstetricians works around the clock to push him back in, but to no avail.
AUGUST 14, 1948
Moments after emerging from the womb somewhere in the British Midlands, tiny Robert Plant lets fly a wail that shatters the bifocals of the obstetrician who plucked him from it.
MARCH 6, 1951
Moments after emerging from the womb somewhere in Canada, tiny Geddy Lee lets fly a wail that shatters the windshield of the auto of the obstetrician who plucked him from it—even though it’s in his suburban garage four miles away (he takes the bus to the hospital). The infant weighs 7 lbs. 8 oz—six pounds, fourteen ounces of which are nose.
MAY 14, 1952
Four-year-old Robert Plant discovers his ability to cause neighbors’ dogs to void their bowels in terror with his screeching.
JUNE 19, 1956