Iron Fist (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Iron Fist


Artist = Motörhead
from Album = Iron Fist
B-side = Remember Me, I'm Gone
Released = April 3, 1982
Format = 7"
Recorded = January 26–March 1, 1982
Ramport Studios, UK
Morgan Studios
Genre = Heavy metal
Length = 5:16
Label = Bronze Records
Polydor
Writer = Eddie Clarke
Lemmy
Phil Taylor
Producer = Eddie Clarke
Will Reid Dick
Certification =
Chart position = * #29 (U.K. Singles)
Last single = "Motorhead (live)"
(1981)
This single = "Iron Fist"
(1982)
Next single = "I Got Mine"
(1983)"Iron Fist" is a song by the heavy metal band Motörhead. It was released as a single in 1982, in 7" pressings in blue, black and translucent red vinyls.

The title track on the single is covered with (B-side's) "Remember Me, I'm Gone", which appears on CD re-issues of the "Iron Fist" album. In Spain, the title track was put on the B-side of "Go to Hell" and was issued with a picture sleeve of the band dressed as warriors in skull masks. [cite journal |quotes= |last=Burridge |first=Alan |authorlink= |coauthors=Mick Stevenson |year=1993 |month=July |title=Motörhead |journal=Record Collector |volume= |issue=167 |pages=72 |id= |url= |accessdate= ]

This is the last single featuring the classic Motörhead line-up of Lemmy, "Fast" Eddie Clarke and "Philthy Animal" Taylor, as Clarke left following the recording of the "Stand By Your Man EP".

On March 27, 1982, Lemmy, Clarke and Taylor were interviewed by Tommy Vance on BBC Radio 1's 'Rock On Saturday' show, "Iron Fist", "Loser", and "Speed Freak" were played. [Burridge, Alan "Illustrated Collector's Guide to Motörhead" Published: 1995, Collector's Guide Publishing ISBN 0-9695736-2-6.]

The song was covered by the German thrash metal band Sodom on their 1987 album "Persecution Mania".

Since 2004, the symphonic metal band Therion covered "Iron Fist" song on several live shows. One of the version is released on "Celebrators of Becoming" box-set.

ingle track listing

# "Iron Fist" (Eddie Clarke, Lemmy, Phil Taylor) - 2:50
# "Remember Me, I'm Gone" (Lemmy, Clarke, Taylor) - 2:26

Credits

* "Fast" Eddie Clarke - guitars, vocals
* Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor - drums
* Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister - bass, lead vocals

References

External links

* [http://www.imotorhead.com/discography/albums6.htm Sample of the song at the Motörhead Official Site] (RealPlayer required).