Kings of Speed - Motorhead

Motorhead

The b-side has become one of Hawkwind's most well known songs because, written by Lemmy, he named his subsequent band after it. It is notable that the song title does not have an umlaut in it, that was added to the band name at a later stage. The lyrics, "Sun rise wrong side of another day, sky high and six thousand miles away" are explained as:

"I was on tour with Hawkwind in 1974, we were staying at the Riot House and Roy Wood and Wizzard were also in town. I got this urge to write a song in the middle of the night. I ran downstairs to the Wizzard room, got Roy's Ovation acoustic guitar, then hurried back to mine. I went on to the balcony and howled away for four hours. Cars were stopping and the drivers were listening then driving off, and there I was yelling away at the top of my voice." - Lemmy, Riffs that Changed the World