{"id":385843,"date":"2026-03-15T03:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/385843\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T03:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:59:17","slug":"motorhead-guitarist-phil-campbell-passes-following-complex-medical-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/385843\/","title":{"rendered":"MOT\u00d6RHEAD Guitarist PHIL CAMPBELL Passes Following &#8220;Complex Medical Operation&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news has come down via social media this morning (March 14), with Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons \u2013 featuring Mot\u00f6rhead guitarist Phil Campbell \u2013 issuing the following statement via social media:<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-617641 lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MotorheadPhilLive15-750x500.jpg\"  data- data-eio-rwidth=\"750\" data-eio-rheight=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved father, Philip Anthony Campbell, who passed away peacefully last night following a long and courageous battle in intensive care after a complex major operation.<\/p>\n<p>Phil was a devoted husband, a wonderful father, and a proud and loving grandfather, known affectionately as \u2018Bampi.\u2019 He was deeply loved by all who knew him and will be missed immensely. His legacy, music and the memories he created with so many will live on forever.<\/p>\n<p>We kindly ask that our family\u2019s privacy is respected during this incredibly difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Campbell auditioned for Mot\u00f6rhead on February 8, 1984, following the departure of guitarist Brian Robertson, narrowing the candidates down to two guitarists: Michael \u201cW\u00fcrzel\u201d Burston and Campbell. Though frontman \/ founder Lemmy had first planned on hiring only one guitarist, he hired both W\u00fcrzel and Campbell upon hearing them play together. campbell remained a member of Mot\u00f6rhead until Lemmy\u2019s passing in December 2015, after which they disbanded.<\/p>\n<p>Campbell\u2019s first solo album Old Lions Still Roar was released on October 25, 2019. In November 2016, his new project Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons released their first recording, a self-titled EP. They would go on to release the albums The Age Of Absurdity (2018), We\u2019re The Bastards (2020), Live In The North (2023) and Kings Of The Asylum (2023).<\/p>\n<p>All of us at BraveWords send our heartfelt condolences to Phil\u2019s family and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sad news has come down via social media this morning (March 14), with Phil Campbell And The Bastard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,176511,337,176416,176512],"class_list":["post-385843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-motrhead","tag-music","tag-phil-campbell","tag-slider1"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116231193531432438","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}