Hard-living heavy rocker Lemmy has played down reports he has bedded over 2,000 women, insisting he has probably had only 1,000 sexual partners.

The MOTГ–RHEAD frontman was asked to come up with a realistic figure as part of a new interview for Nylon magazine, and the 65 year old claims he's probably had at least once-weekly sex for the past 50 years - but not always with different partners.

He says, "If you think about it, man, it's (1,000 sexual partners) quite reasonable. I'm 65 and I've never been married, right? So if you work it out it's probably about one a week, which isn't too bad for somebody who's in the rock 'n' roll business."