If you had to name a band that could rouse someone out of a coma, surely Motörhead would be at or near the top of the list. Well, Lemmy has been known to claim that something exactly like that actually happened, a decade or three ago.
On at least three occasions Lemmy has told an interviewer about the time a Motörhead fan was in a coma, and the patient woke up after a tape Motörhead put together for the patient was played. Lemmy says the incident happened in 1980 or 1981; I have not been able to find any independent corroboration for the story.
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