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Late Motörhead frontman Lemmy will be remembered at a tribute night by his The Rainbow Bar and Grill in Hollywood.
The 'Ace of Spades' hitmaker - who passed away aged 70 last month after a short battle with an "extremely aggressive cancer" - will be remembered on January 9 with a special 12-hour memorial at the West Hollywood drinking den on the Sunset Strip which he considered his spiritual home.
The Los Angeles bar's owner Mikael Maglieri, comforted the late rocker by installing his favourite video game from the bar into his home so he could play it in his finals hours.
Maglieri announced the event on The Rainbow Bar and Grill's Facebook page - along with an image of Lemmy playing the game.
The post read: "Join us as we say goodbye to a dear friend and loved one. We will open our doors at 2pm. Come celebrate the life of Lemmy Kilmister. Legends never die."
Since it was revealed Lemmy had died on December 28 The Rainbow Bar and Grill has become a makeshift shrine to the rocker with fans leaving tributes and memorials outside the venue.

Boy George was planning to move to America so Britain would "scream" for him to come back.
Just before he was offered a judging role on 'The Voice', the 54-year-old Culture Club singer was going to move to the US in order to put his past troubles behind him including a 2005 conviction for falsely reporting a burglary in Manhattan which earned him a community service order.
George - who made the burglary call to police while high on cocaine - wanted to make America his permanent home because he felt the country was willing to give him a clean slate as opposed to his home country.
He said: "I kind of felt like, I'm going to America, they are going to fall in love with me and then my country is going to scream for me to come back.
"When I went back to New York for the first time [after his community service], I fully expected every television programme to show footage of me sweeping up the city. They just didn't do it and I thought, 'That's amazing.' I was really shocked. It was like, 'You did this. It's over. You did your community service. We don't want to talk about it any more.' That's why I love America."
George - who served four months of a 15-month jail sentence in 2009 for the assault and false imprisonment of a man - eventually got clean of drugs and made a vow to rebuild his music career and reputation, and he is proud he has achieved his goals.
He told The Times newspaper: "We're getting there over here. I've always been insanely optimistic. But I do remember saying to myself, 'You have to make this right. You have to rebuild this, brick by brick. Everything. Myself. My career. My life.' It was, 'OK, I'm in charge now and I need to kind of really get this together.'
"There is no margin of error. There is just no way. My mother would be, 'Arrrrggh!' She would disown me. Well, she probably wouldn't because she loves me, but there is just no way ... no way. I'm out of chances."

Britney Spears avoided injury after getting stuck in a tree stage prop while performing in Las Vegas on Saturday night (02.1.16).
The 34-year-old pop superstar was midway through singing her hit 'Toxic' at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino and about to carry out a stage stunt when her safety harness stopped working.
According to gossip website TMZ, Britney was supposed to fly across the crowd, but the malfunction meant she didn't take off and a stage director had to rescue the singer before she carried on with her performance.
The blonde beauty was performing a show as part of her Las Vegas concert residency 'Britney: Piece of Me', and still had the prop attached to her as she walked down stairs to continue singing.
The 'Alien' hitmaker avoided social media after the incident, however, she has vowed to keep "shaking things up" when she takes to the stage for the final show of the series, in its current form, on Monday night (04.1.16).
Alongside a video of her on stage, she wrote on Twitter: "Last show of #PieceOfMe as you know it!! Looking forward to shaking things up! (sic)"
It's not the first mishap of 2016 for Britney, she recently bruised her forehead after hitting it on a metal pole.
She previously shared on Twitter: "Good morning 2016! Don't mind the little bruise on my forehead ... Ran into a pole (sic)"

Liam Gallagher has ruled out releasing a solo album.
In a random outburst on Twitter, the former Oasis frontman angrily stated he would not make an LP on his own because he is "not a ****".
The unprompted tweet, which was posted in the early hours of Monday morning (04.01.16), read: "Solo record are you f***ing tripping d***head im not a **** LG X (sic)"
The outburst was preceded by a cryptic message written by the 43-year-old singer which stated: "Excuse me sir has your dog been at your passport why you jealous fatty LG X"
Oasis split in 2009 when Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher walked out on the group following a furious backstage bust-up with his sibling.
Noel, 48, went on to release two critically and commercially successful solo albums under the name Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, while Liam formed new band Beady Eye with fellow former Oasis members Gem Archer, Andy Bell and Chris Sharrock.
After releasing two albums they disbanded in October 2014.
Since then Liam has not unveiled any new music but was rumoured to be working on new material with The La's singer/songwriter Lee Mavers last year.
It was revealed last month the 'Wonderwall' singer is keen to reform Oasis with Noel in court papers submitted as evidence for his recent divorce from ex-wife Nicole Appleton.
The papers stated Liam "would like" to get Oasis back together but the proposition is "unlikely" at this time.
Judge O'Dwyer revealed in his settlement ruling: "[Liam] says there are no plans to reform and, although he would like to do so, he does not anticipate there is a possibility currently of any such reform.
"Although he expressly would like to re-enter the music business, currently he says there is no prospect of that."

Blake Shelton is "laying it out there" with his upcoming new album.
The 39-year-old singer has had an eventful few months, following his split from Miranda Lambert and new relationship with Gwen Stefani, but is using his personal life drama to inspire music for his record.
He explained: "I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, and that's put all I've gone through and put it into music, and I never felt more connected to a record before.
"When people hear this record, they may not know what happened to me, but they're gonna know how I felt about it. And that's exciting for me, to just lay it out there for people."
Blake used his songwriting as a method of coping with the changes in his life and, as a result, has a wealth of material for the album.
He added to Country Countdown USA: "I have, I've written more than I've written in 15 years, for obvious reasons, all the awful things that have happened in my personal life, but the way the year ended is also the greatest of my life.
"I found some people in my life that have changed my life forever. Some has been bad and some that's been pretty good."

Jack Garratt wrote "eight years" worth of bad songs.
The 'Worry' hitmaker - who recently won the BRITs 2016 Critics' Choice Award - admits he has wrote his fair share of terrible songs but feels it has improved his skills now and into the future.
He told The Sunday Times' Culture magazine: "I was playing it safe - I was too in love with how I came across on stage, how my voice sounded, the guitar licks I played, to think about the songs I was writing. I was basically writing s**t.
"But every songwriter has to come from somewhere. And every songwriter writes a bad song. You have to, otherwise, how can you write a good one, if you've got nothing to compare it to? The problem is, I spent about eight years just writing bad ones. OK, I'm doing myself a disservice in support of this point but there's some truth in it."
Meanwhile, the 23-year-old singer previously revealed he is already planning on where to store his awards - in the bathroom so his guests can practice their own speeches in front of the mirror.
He told BANG Showbiz: "As it stands, I'm going to keep all of them in my bathroom at home in Chicago just because I want people to go in the bathroom and see all the awards and they can have an acceptance speech on their own in the bathroom."

Steve Aoki thinks the secret to his success is being able to nap anywhere.
The 37-year-old DJ and electronic music producer is very proud of his ability to get some shut-eye, no matter what the circumstances, ensuring he is always fresh for his sets.
He exclusively told BANG Showbiz: "I take naps everywhere. I could sleep in that corner right there. I could sleep on your shoulder.
"I've slept in the club, I've slept under a table ... [Everyone was like] 'Oh my God, it's Steve Aoki. Oh s**t he's sleeping under a table!'
"I've been caught on the EasyJet sleeping, 'Yo, where's your Aoki jet, Steve Aoki?' I've been caught everywhere man, I don't really care. You have to not care, that's the thing."
The 'Delirious' hitmaker also admitted that despite playing at some of the biggest musical festivals in the world, one location he's desperate to visit is the region of Transylvania in Romania.
Steve told BANG Showbiz: "I was having a conversation with Dimitri Vegas and he was like, 'Oh, yo, we're playing Transylvania'. I didn't even know that was an actual real place. I thought that was where vampires and Dracula come from and they're not real so...
"I'd love to play there, just to say that I was there!"

Fatboy Slim's Smile High Club at London's Tobacco Dock on Saturday (02.01.15) celebrated acid house with a modern twist.
The English DJ - also known as Norman Cook - called for "random acts of smileyness" at the day-time event and the 5000 loyal house music lovers responded with a visual extravaganza, as they dressed in brightly coloured lycra and painted their faces yellow, in honour of the famous house raves of the '80s and '90s.
Fatboy dived into a career-spanning set and played familiar tracks like 'Eat Sleep Rave Repeat' and 'Renegrade Master' mixed with current electronic music samples and mash-ups, which created an immeasurable buzz in the main room.
And the 52-year-old DJ reminded fans how lucky they were to hear the Brit Award winner in action, when he played hits 'Praise You' and 'Right Here, Right Now'.
A set from Mancunian DJ Ben Pearce in the late afternoon was another treat on what was a brilliant line-up.
The tattooed deck spinner played his pop-leaning 2013 hit 'What I Might Do' and mixed it with more darkly-shaded dance tunes and a "few curve balls", including new tracks from his forthcoming EP - out in January on Moda Black.
Speaking to BANG Showbiz before the event, he revealed: "The art of the warm up DJ is kind of dying out a bit. That's what I used to be when I first started out so I got a bit of a passion, to show your artistry... you want to make sure people know what you're about not just playing what they want to hear and the songs they already know... Educate them a little bit. Make them hear new music."
However, walking into the car park to find Cyril Hahn spinning his remix of Destiny's Child's 'Say My Name' in the early evening - to a thunderous reception - was one of the highlights of the day.
The Swiss DJ performed to an impeccable light show that complimented his euphoric sound and treated his followers to another fan-favourite, 'Perfect Form'.
Elsewhere, people rushed through the iron vaults of Tobacco Dock to catch other brilliant acts, including Secondcity, 2ManyDJs, and Erol Alkan, while Jägermeister provided music goers with an alpine escape on the rooftop of the riverside venue.
Two large, heated teepees filled with comfy sofas, benches, Christmas lights and free popcorn gave revellers shelter from the wind and rain while they were also comforted by live music.
Fatboy Slim heads to Australia in the coming weeks to play four dates, before visiting Brazil in February and Snowbombing festival in Austria in April.

Delta Goodrem thinks touring with Ricky Martin was a "weird choice".
The 'Wings' singer and Latino heartthrob should have been fierce rivals as coaches on the Australian version of talent show 'The Voice' but their "chemistry" worked so well, they went on the road together.
Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz, she said: "It was a weird choice for me because obviously I do my own shows but I wanted to do it because we have this amazing chemistry when we sing live together.
"And he's a kindred spirit in my life."
During the tour the 31-year-old beauty found that something "clicked" on stage and her life was "put back into shape" at a time when she was contemplating what she wanted to over the next 10 years.
Delta shared: "My set, not being my show, was 10,000 people, piano, a guitar, and a drum, and it had to fill the room in such a stripped back way. It just brought me back to a place that, I just went, 'I love this. Like I really, really love this.' The lights were off and it was a spotlight. But it was minus anything bigger, and there was something about it that just clicked my whole life back into shape.
"You know when you choose to do something and you don't know why you're doing it? I know for the love of reason, but it wasn't a strategic thing, it wasn't a thing for my brand, it wasn't anything, it was just me."
Meanwhile, Delta has found her "roots" again and after touring with Ricky, her track 'Wings' became the ninth number on the ARIA Singles Chart.
She added: "After I walked off that tour I walked straight into the studio, and I went, you know what type of song I need? I want something I'm currently listening to I want something that I feel is now. And I want to bring in what my roots are and I'm a classical piano player, like that's what I actually need to put into my pop songs. So that's what I did."