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‘It’ll be solemn, enshrining his ashes’: statue of Lemmy to be unveiled in his home town of Stoke-on-Trent

Cast in bronze by sculptor Andy Edwards and containing the legendary Motörhead frontman’s DNA, the effigy underscores the West Midlands’ rock heritage

“That’s the street where Lemmy lived,” says sculptor Andy Edwards as we drive into the town of Burslem in the north of Stoke-on-Trent, past terrace houses and a ceramics factory. Funded by the band’s management, the initiative found community support: a committed group, including Edwards, worked on the logistics, meeting regularly at a cafe opposite the statue site to put the plans into place. The motorcade ahead of the statue unveiling will start at Grumpy’s, a bar tucked down a street near the Trent and Mersey canal in the Longport area of the city, a few minutes’ drive from the installation site.

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