MOTÖRHEAD released their third album, "Bomber," on October 12th, 1979 through Bronze Records, recorded between July 7th and August 31st at Roundhouse in London with additional work at Olympic, produced by Jimmy Miller. Thirty-seven minutes, and it reached number twelve in the UK — their strongest showing to that point. Miller had made some of the ROLLING STONES' best records between 1968 and 1973, but by these sessions he was deep into heroin and once vanished from the studio entirely, later found asleep at the wheel of his car. "Dead Men Tell No Tales" was the band's first anti-heroin song. Lemmy is at his most combative here — going after the police on "Lawman," his father's abandonment of the family on "Poison," television on "Talking Head." The Bomber tour brought the aluminium bomber lighting rig, the first that could move both backwards and sideways.
