Ted Nugent: Cecil the Lion story 'is a lie'

Pro-hunting rocker insists it was right to shoot the beloved big cat, and that killing animals is 'legal and essential'

Ted Nugent enjoys killing things. He enjoys killing things so much that when he's not touring or recording, he offers hunting safaris in the US, Canada and Africa. He enjoys killing things so much that he sells specially branded Ted Nugent hunting arrows on his website. "Ted Nugent does not compromise," his site boasts.

He certainly hasn't compromised in the case of Cecil the Lion, and the worldwide revulsion at Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer, who paid $50,000 to track and kill the Zimbabwean lion, after luring him out of a national park.