“Make My Day: The Rock ‘N Roll Story Of Fast Eddie Clarke” Boxset Announced

Coming in a robust box, Make My Day: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Story Of Fast Eddie Clarke celebrates the late Motorhead & Fastway guitarist with a four CD career retrospective and 320-page book written by veteran rock journalist Kris Needs with Clarke’s widow, Mariko Fujiwara. The book that named the set charts the guitarist’s life and career including his epiphany seeing The Yardbirds at Eel Pie Island, playing with assorted bands, recording two albums with former Jimi Hendrix associate Curtis Knight, riding with Motörhead’s most revered lineup between 1976 and 1982, forming Fastway and releasing two solo albums. Mariko and Eddie’s closest friends provide detailed insights into Eddie’s life, including growing up in Twickenham, topping charts with Motörhead, overcoming personal problems, finding happiness with Mariko and becoming the smitten co-owner of Cookie the Maltese-Shihtzu cross.

As editor of the UK’s first serious music monthly Zigzag and one of Motörhead’s earliest press champions, Kris Needs spent five years close to the band during its most successful period and beyond. To this end, Needs also interviewed close friends, bandmates, associated bands including Girlschool and Saxon plus collaborators from different stages of Eddie’s roller coaster life and career, emerging with a definitive account that ends up a love story. The CD boxset covers Fast Eddie’s recording career of over 40 years including tracks by Zeus, Continuous Performance, Muggers, Motörhead, Headgirl, Fastway and solo recordings.