METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich has his childhood home up for sale at a price of 48 million Danish kroner, which translates to approximately 6.85 million U.S. dollars.
Located in Hellerup, a prestigious area within the municipality of Gentofte in eastern Denmark, the house served as Ulrich‘s residence for 17 years alongside his parents Torben and Lene.
Following his relocation to Los Angeles and the establishment of METALLICA, Ulrich reminisced about his upbringing and shared anecdotes about his musical inspirations and early drumming experiences during a video tour of his childhood abode in Hellerup.
Lars said: “That’s where I spent 17 years, right in there. Up there on the balcony was my dad’s playroom, where he sat and listened to Miles Davis and [John] Coltrane records. Copenhagen was sort of the hotbed of jazz music in Europe in the ’60s… All the jazz musicians would come and hang out here, and a lot of the hippies, and that was his kind of environment away from tennis. When he was here chillin’, that was kind of what he did, and hung with all these crazy cats.”
“There wasn’t anything typical about any of this,” he continued. “That’s why when people like [James] Hetfield, and so on, sit there and talk about their childhoods and all this type of stuff, what went on in here was like a whole different universe.”
Lars pointed to his “playroom,” mentioning: “That window and that window and the two windows over, that’s where I had my drums. That was the room where I had all my posters and the room where I had my stereo and all my records and all 700 posters of DEEP PURPLE right in there.”
