Ulrich originally intended to follow in his father's footsteps and play tennis, and he moved to Newport Beach, California, in the summer of 1980. The concert and album had a considerable impact on Ulrich, inspiring the start of his music career.Īs a result of his newfound interest in music, he received his first drum kit, a Ludwig, from his grandmother around the age of 12 or 13. When one of the friends could not go, they gave their ticket to the nine-year-old Lars, who was mesmerized by the performance and bought the band's album Fireball the next day. In February 1973, Ulrich's father obtained passes for five of his friends to a Deep Purple concert held in the same Copenhagen stadium as one of his tennis tournaments. Saxophonist Dexter Gordon was Ulrich's godfather, and he is a childhood friend of musician Neneh Cherry. His paternal grandmother, Ulla Meyer, was from a Jewish family as a result, Ulrich's grandfather was persecuted by the Nazis during World War II. His paternal grandfather was tennis player Einer Ulrich.
Ulrich was born into an upper-middle-class family in Gentofte, Denmark the son of Lone ( née Sylvester-Hvid) and tennis player Torben Ulrich. Along with Hetfield, Ulrich has songwriting credits on almost all of the band's songs, and the two of them are the only remaining original members of the band. After publishing an advertisement in The Recycler, Ulrich met James Hetfield and formed Metallica. However, rather than playing tennis, Ulrich began playing drums. The son and grandson respectively of tennis players Torben and Einer Ulrich, he played tennis in his youth and moved to Los Angeles at age 16 to train professionally. Lars Ulrich R ( / ˈ ʊ l r ɪ k/ Danish: born 26 December 1963) is a Danish musician best known as the drummer and co-founder of American heavy metal band Metallica.
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