Apparently 318 people from Lemmy and Slash‘s city of birth signed a petition to erect (hehe, erect) statues of the two rockstars. Surprise surprise, it didn’t work.
“I think this idea is a complete waste of time and effort, and the petition was the wrong way for this to be brought to us“ said the city’s labor councilor
“It’s actually quite selfish to focus on these two specific artists and I think there should be a more diverse monument to the range of that this city has produced.“
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Can you blame them? Think about it… Donatello and Michelangelo are dead, so who has enough talent to take on the daunting task of sculpting Lemmy’s face with all its… details?