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Mötley Crüe

February 01, 2023

For the band's 1994 album, see Mötley Crüe (album). For the similarly-named Post Malone song, see Motley Crew (song). For the 1950s and 1960s jazz and R&B band called Motley Crew, see Frank Motley.

Mötley Crüe is an American heavy metal band formed in Hollywood, California in 1981.[1][2][3] The group was founded by bassist Nikki Sixx, drummer Tommy Lee, lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead singer Vince Neil. Mötley Crüe has sold over 100 million albums worldwide.[4][5][6] They have also achieved seven platinum or multi-platinum certifications, nine Top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 chart (including 1989's Dr. Feelgood, which is Mötley Crüe's only album to reach number one), twenty-two Top 40 mainstream rock hits, and six Top 20 pop singles.[7][8] The band experienced several short-term lineup changes in the 1990s and 2000s; these included the introduction of vocalist John Corabi (who was Neil's replacement from 1992 to 1996) and drummers Randy Castillo and Samantha Maloney, both of whom filled in for Lee following his departure from Mötley Crüe in 1999; he returned to the band in 2004. More recently in 2022 guitarist Mick Mars announced his retirement from touring with the band, with former Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie guitarist John 5 taking his place on live duties.

Mötley Crüe
Mötley Crüe performing live in 2012, from left to right: Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx (background), Tommy Lee (foreground), Mick Mars
Background information
OriginHollywood, California, U.S.
Genres
Years active
  • 1981–present
Labels
Members
Past members
Websitemotley.com

The members of Mötley Crüe have often been noted for their hedonistic lifestyles and the androgynous personae they maintained. Following the hard rock and heavy metal origins on the band's first two albums, Too Fast for Love (1981) and Shout at the Devil (1983), the release of its third album Theatre of Pain (1985) saw Mötley Crüe joining the first wave of glam metal.[9][10] The band has also been known for their elaborate live performances, which feature flame thrower guitars, roller coaster drum kits, and heavy use of pyrotechnics (fireworks) (including lighting Sixx on fire).[7][11] Mötley Crüe's last studio album, Saints of Los Angeles, was released on June 24, 2008. What was planned to be the band's final show took place on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2015. The concert was filmed for a theatrical and Blu-ray release in 2016.[12][13]

After two-and-a-half years of inactivity, Neil announced in September 2018 that Mötley Crüe had reunited and was working on new material.[14][15] On March 22, 2019, the band released four new songs on the soundtrack for its Netflix biopic The Dirt, based on the band's New York Times best-selling autobiography of the same name. The soundtrack went to number one on the iTunes All Genres Album Chart,[16] number 3 on the Billboard Top Album and Digital Album sales charts,[17] number 10 on the Billboard 200, and Top 10 worldwide.[18] The autobiography returned to New York Times Best Seller list at number 6 on Nonfiction Print and number 8 on Nonfiction Combined Print & E-Book.[19] Mötley Crüe embarked on its first major tour in seven years in the summer and fall of 2022, co-headlining a North American tour with Def Leppard.[20]

History

1981–1983: Early history and Too Fast for Love

Mötley Crüe was formed on January 17, 1981, when bassist Nikki Sixx left the band London and began rehearsing with drummer Tommy Lee and vocalist/guitarist Greg Leon.[21] Lee had previously worked with Leon in a band called Suite 19[22] and the trio practiced together for some time; Leon eventually decided not to continue with them. Sixx and Lee then began a search for new members and soon met guitarists Robin Moore (Jeff Gill)[23] and Bob Deal, better known as Mick Mars, after answering an advertisement that he placed in The Recycler that read: "Loud, rude and aggressive guitar player available". Mars auditioned for Sixx, Moore and Lee, and was subsequently hired while Moore was fired at the same session according to the band's biography The Dirt.[24] Although a lead vocalist named O'Dean was auditioned,[25][26] Lee had known Vince Neil from their high school days at Charter Oak High School in Covina, California,[27] and the two had performed in different bands on the garage band circuit. Upon seeing him perform with the band Rock Candy at the Starwood in Hollywood, California, Mars suggested they have Neil join the band. At first Neil refused the offer, but as the other members of Rock Candy became involved in outside projects, Neil grew anxious to try something else.[28] Lee asked again; Neil was hired on April 1, 1981, and the band played its first gig at the Starwood nightclub on April 24.[29]

I wanted a band that would be like David Bowie and the Sex Pistols thrown in a blender with Black Sabbath.

 —Nikki Sixx[30]

The newly formed band did not yet have a name. Sixx has said that he told his bandmates that he was "thinking about calling the band "Christmas". The other members were not very receptive to that idea. Then, while trying to find a suitable name, Mars remembered an incident that occurred when he was playing with a band called White Horse, when one of the other band members called the group "a motley looking crew". He had remembered the phrase and later copied it down as 'Mottley Cru'. After modifying the spelling slightly, "Mötley Crüe" was eventually selected as the band's name, with the stylistic decision suggested by Neil to add the two sets of metal umlauts, supposedly inspired by the German beer Löwenbräu, which the members were drinking at the time.[31] Other than the periods of February 1992 to September 1996 and of March 1999 to September 2004, the lineup of Neil, Sixx, Lee, and Mars remained the same.[32]

The band soon met its first manager, Allan Coffman, the thirty-eight-year-old brother-in-law of a friend of Mars's driver.[33] The band's first release was the single "Stick to Your Guns/Toast of the Town", which was released on its own record label, Leathür Records, which had a pressing and distribution deal with Greenworld Distribution in Torrance, California. In November 1981, its debut album Too Fast for Love was self-produced and released on Leathür, selling 20,000 copies. Coffman's assistant Eric Greif set up a tour of Canada,[34] while Coffman and Greif used Mötley Crüe's success in the Los Angeles club scene to negotiate with several record labels, eventually signing a recording contract with Elektra Records in early 1982. The debut album was then re-mixed by producer Roy Thomas Baker and re-released on August 20, 1982—two months after its Canadian Warner Music Group release using the original Leathür mixes—to coincide with the tour.[35]

Listening to Queen inspired Mötley Crüe to work with Roy Thomas Baker on Too Fast for Love. He would come in, "Hello Darlings ..." and listen for maybe thirty minutes or so and leave. And we're like, "What?! Where's he going?". But he produced Queen, so, man, we had to have him produce us, too.

 —Tommy Lee[36]

During the "Crüesing Through Canada Tour '82", there were several widely publicized incidents. First, the band was arrested and then released at Edmonton International Airport for wearing their spiked stage wardrobe (considered "dangerous weapons") through customs, and for Neil arriving with a small carry-on filled with porn magazines (considered "indecent material"); both were staged PR stunts. Customs eventually had the confiscated items destroyed. Second, while playing Scandals Disco in Edmonton, a spurious "bomb threat" against the band made the front page of the Edmonton Journal[37] on June 9, 1982; Lee and assistant band manager Greif were interviewed by police as a result. This too ended up being a staged PR stunt perpetrated by Greif. Lastly, Lee threw a television set from an upper story window of the Sheraton Caravan Hotel. Canadian rock magazine Music Express noted that the band was "banned for life" from the city.[38] Despite the tour ending prematurely in financial disaster, it was the basis for the band's first international press.[39]

In 1983, the band changed management from Coffman to Doug Thaler and Doc McGhee. McGhee is best known for managing Bon Jovi and later Kiss, starting with their reunion tour in 1996. Greif subsequently sued all parties in a Los Angeles Superior Court action that dragged on for several years, and coincidentally later re-surfaced as manager of Sixx's former band, London. Coffman himself was sued by several investors to whom he had sold "stock in the band", including Michigan-based Bill Larson. Coffman eventually declared bankruptcy, as he had mortgaged his home at least three times to cover band expenses.[40]

1983–1991: International fame and addiction struggles

"Too Fast For Love", the title track from the band's debut album, was reportedly recorded over a span of three days while the band members were under the influence of alcohol. Their antics included, according to the website "Page Six" urinating in public or on the floors of their bedrooms, and throwing beds and furniture such as futons out of hotel windows in Hamburg, Germany. Nikki Sixx had been arrested for the first time while selling "chocolate" mescaline at a Rolling Stones concert in 1973. The band became rapidly successful in the United States after playing at the US Festival in May 1983,[41] and also with the aid of the new medium of MTV. Their second album, Shout at the Devil, was released in September 1983.[42] The album represented the band's mainstream breakthrough and would eventually be certified 4× platinum.[43] The album generated controversy for its title track and album imagery, both of which invoked Satanism.[44][45] They then gained the attention of heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne and found themselves as the opening act for Osbourne on his 1984 tour for Bark at the Moon. The band members were well known for their backstage antics, outrageous clothing, extreme high-heeled boots, heavily applied make-up, and seemingly endless abuse of alcohol and drugs as well.[46]

The band members also had their share of run ins with the law. On December 8, 1984, Neil was driving home from a liquor run in his De Tomaso Pantera which ended in a head-on collision; his passenger, Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley, was killed.[47] Neil, charged with a DUI and vehicular manslaughter, was sentenced to 30 days in jail (although he served only 18 days) and subsequently sued for $2,500,000. The short jail term was negotiated by his lawyers, enabling Neil to tour and pay the civil suit.[48]

The band's third album Theatre of Pain was released in June 1985 and dedicated in Dingley's honor, and it started a new glam metal phase in the band's style.[49] Theatre of Pain was commercially successful, reaching number 6 on the Billboard album charts[50] and eventually being certified quadruple platinum.[51] However, the recording of the album was fraught with tension in the wake of Neil's accident and Sixx's growing addiction,[52] and members of the band have said that they consider it a creative disappointment.[53]

Mötley Crüe spent most of the next year on a world tour in support of Theatre of Pain. In February 1986 in London, England Sixx suffered a near-fatal heroin overdose, and the person who sold him the drugs dumped his unconscious body in a dumpster. The incident inspired Sixx to write the song "Dancing on Glass" for their next album.[54]

The band's fourth album, Girls, Girls, Girls, was released in May 1987 and debuted at number 2 on the Billboard 200.[55] Sixx has said in interviews that he believes the album would have debuted at number 1 if not for behind the scenes maneuvering by Whitney Houston's record label.[56] The band again changed their look for the album and subsequent tour, trading the glam elements of the previous album for a biker aesthetic.[57] The band faced many of the same personal issues that plagued the recording of Theatre of Pain and Sixx has complained that those issues compromised the album's quality,[58] although he has spoken more positively about the record in subsequent years.[59]

On December 23, 1987, Sixx suffered a heroin overdose. He was declared clinically dead on the way to the hospital, but the paramedic, who was a Crüe fan, revived Sixx with two shots of adrenaline.[60] His two minutes in death were the inspiration for the song "Kickstart My Heart", which peaked at No. 16 on the Mainstream U.S. chart, and which was featured on the 1989 U.S. number one (their first) album Dr. Feelgood. From 1986 to 1987, Sixx kept a daily diary of his heroin addiction and eventually entered rehab in January 1988.

In 1988, controversy again hit the band in the form of a lawsuit by Matthew Trippe. Trippe claimed that Sixx was hospitalized in 1983 after a car crash involving drugs and that he had been hired as Sixx's doppelgänger. The suit was regarding the loss of royalties from his time in Mötley Crüe and the case was not closed until 1993 when Trippe dropped his charges and disappeared from public view.[61]

Their decadent lifestyles almost shattered the band until managers Thaler and McGhee pulled an intervention and refused to allow the band to tour in Europe, fearing that "some [of them] would come back in bodybags".[62] Shortly after, all the band members jointly entered drug rehabilitation in an effort to move forward as a band.[63]

After finding sobriety, Mötley Crüe reached its peak popularity with the release of their fifth album, the Bob Rock-produced Dr. Feelgood, on September 1, 1989. Rock and the band recorded the album in Vancouver, with the band members recording their parts separately for the first time to reduce infighting and to focus on individual performance. Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler, who was recording the album Pump at the same studio, provided backing vocals.[64] On October 14 of that year, it became a No. 1 album and stayed on the charts for 114 weeks after its release.[65] The band members each stated in interviews that, due in no small part to their collective push for sobriety, Dr. Feelgood was their most solid album musically to that point.[66] The title track and "Kickstart My Heart" were both nominated for Grammys in the Best Hard Rock Category in 1990 and 1991, respectively, but lost both years to songs by Living Colour.[67] The band did find some success at the American Music Awards, as Dr. Feelgood was nominated twice for Favorite Hard Rock/Metal Award, losing once to Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction, but winning the following year, beating out Aerosmith's Pump and Poison's Flesh & Blood. Mötley Crüe was also nominated twice for Favorite Hard Rock/Metal Artist.[68]

In 1989, McGhee was fired after the band alleged he had broken several promises that he made in relation to the Moscow Music Peace Festival, including giving his other band, Bon Jovi, advantages in terms of slot placement. Thaler then assumed the role of sole band manager.[69]

The band spent the fall of 1989 and most of 1990 on a massive world tour, the band's biggest to that point. It was a major financial success but left the band feeling burnt out.[70] In April 1990, Lee suffered a concussion during a mishap involving a rappelling drum kit stunt during a live concert in New Haven, Connecticut.[71]

On October 1, 1991, the band's first compilation album, Decade of Decadence 81-91, was released. It peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart. It was reportedly designed as "just something for the fans" while the band worked on the next "all new" album.[72]

1992–2003: Years of turmoil

Vince Neil left the band in February 1992 following the release of Decade of Decadence, during a period in which most other prominent glam metal bands of the 1980s were breaking up or otherwise seeing their popularity decline significantly amid the advent of grunge and alternative music. It remains unclear whether Neil was fired or quit the band. Sixx has long maintained that Neil quit, while Neil insists that he was fired. "Any band has its little spats," Neil observed in 2000, "and this one basically just stemmed from a bunch of 'fuck yous' in a rehearsal studio. It went from 'I quit' to 'You're fired' ... It was handled idiotically. The management just let one of the biggest bands in the world break up."[73]

In the running for the vacant frontman position was Kik Tracee vocalist Stephen Shareaux.[74][75] Ultimately Neil was replaced by John Corabi (formerly of Angora and the Scream). Although Mötley's self-titled March 1994 release made the Billboard top ten (#7), the album was a commercial failure. It also prompted negative reactions from many fans due to Neil's absence and its sound. Corabi suggested the band bring back Neil, believing the latter would always be seen as the voice of the band. This eventually resulted in his own firing in 1996.[76] Corabi spoke about his time with the band and his thoughts on the first record with Mötley Crüe. Corabi said: "my record was the first record that they had done that didn't go platinum, didn't make some sort of crazy noise, and everybody panicked".[77] During his time away from the band, Neil released a moderately successful solo album, Exposed in 1993,[78] and a less commercially successful follow-up, Carved in Stone in 1995.[79]

After Rolling Stone magazine broke out the news in their november 26 1996 issue, the band reunited with Neil in 1997,[80] after their current manager, Allen Kovac, and Neil's manager, Bert Stein, set up a meeting between Neil, Lee, and Sixx. Agreeing to "leave their egos at the door", the band released Generation Swine. Although it debuted at No. 4, and in spite of a live performance at the American Music Awards, the album was a commercial failure, due in part to lack of support from their label.[81]

In 1998, Mötley's contractual ties with Elektra had expired, putting the band in total control of their future, including the ownership of the master recordings of all of their albums. Announcing the end of their relationship with Elektra, the band became one of the few groups to own and control their publishing and music catalog. They are one of only a handful of artists to own the masters to their material and reportedly did so by being the biggest pain they could be until Elektra got fed up and handed over the rights in order to get the band off their label.[82] After leaving Elektra the band created their own label, Mötley Records.[83]

Mötley released their compilation Greatest Hits in late 1998, featuring two new songs, "Bitter Pill" and "Enslaved".[84] In 1999, the band rereleased all their albums, dubbed as "Crücial Crüe". These limited-edition digital remasters included demos, plus live, instrumental, and previously unreleased tracks.[85] In 1999 the band also released Supersonic and Demonic Relics, an updated version of Decade of Decadence featuring the original songs from that album and several previously unreleased B-sides and remixes,[86] as well as their first official live album Entertainment or Death[87] (which was the original working title for the studio album Theatre of Pain).[88] The band then went on a co-headlining tour with The Scorpions.[89]

In 1999, Lee quit to pursue a solo career, due to increasing tensions with Neil. "All we got was a call from his attorney saying he wasn't coming back," recalled the singer. "He wasn't into rock 'n' roll anymore. He even said that rock is dead ... It all happened during a void in Mötley. We weren't even rehearsing, so it was no big deal."[90]

Lee was replaced by a longtime friend of the band, former Ozzy Osbourne drummer Randy Castillo. The band released New Tattoo in July 2000.[91] Before the ensuing tour commenced, Castillo became ill with a duodenal ulcer. The band brought in former Hole drummer Samantha Maloney for the Maximum Rock tour with Megadeth[92] as Castillo concentrated on his health. However, while Castillo was recovering from stomach surgery, he was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma after finding a tumor on his jaw. He died on March 26, 2002.[93] Soon afterward, the band went on hiatus.[94]

While the band was on hiatus, Sixx played in side projects 58 and Brides of Destruction.[95][96] Neil was featured on the first season of VH1's reality show The Surreal Life,[97] and had his own special titled "Remaking Vince Neil", which focused on his solo career and attempts to get in better physical shape.[98] Mars, who suffers from a hereditary form of arthritis which causes extensive spinal pain called ankylosing spondylitis,[99] went into seclusion in 2001 dealing with health issues. Lee went on to form Methods of Mayhem[100] and also performed as a solo artist during this time.[101]

A 2001 autobiography titled The Dirt, co-authored by all four of the band members and Neil Strauss, presented Mötley as "the world's most notorious rock band." The book made the top ten on The New York Times Best Seller list and spent ten weeks there, and would return to the list after the film adaptation was released in spring 2019.[102]

In 2003, the band released two box sets entitled Music to Crash Your Car To: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, featuring the music from their entire career.[103][104] The titles of the collections were heavily criticized by Hanoi Rocks singer Michael Monroe, among others, due to their possible reference to Vince Neil and Razzle's fatal automobile accident, and that Neil was found guilty of manslaughter for the incident.[105]

2004–2007: Reunion and renewed success

 
Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars performing onstage with Mötley Crüe, on June 14, 2005, in Glasgow, Scotland

A promoter in England, Mags Revell, began clamoring for a Mötley Crüe reunion, ostensibly presenting himself as the voice of anxious fans waiting for more from the band.[106] After meeting with management several times, in September 2004, Sixx announced that he and Neil had returned to the studio and had begun recording new material. In December 2004, the four original members announced a reunion tour, staging an announcement event in which they arrived at the Hollywood Palladium in a hearse.[107] The tour began on February 14, 2005, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.[108] The resulting compilation album, Red, White & Crüe, was released in February 2005. It features the band members' favorite original songs plus three new tracks, "If I Die Tomorrow", "Sick Love Song" (co-written by Sixx and James Michael), and a cover of the Rolling Stones' classic "Street Fighting Man". A small controversy was caused when it was suggested that neither Lee nor Mars played on the new tracks (duties were supposedly handled by Vandals drummer Josh Freese)[citation needed]. However, a VH1 documentary of the band's reunion later showed that Lee did indeed play on some of the tracks. The Japanese release of Red, White & Crüe includes an extra new track titled "I'm a Liar (and That's the Truth)". Red, White & Crüe charted at No. 6 and has since gone platinum.[109]

On New Year's Eve 2004 the band appeared on a live episode of The Tonight Show. Neil yelled an obscenity during the performance, leading to an FCC investigation.[110] The NBC network responded by banning the band, leading to the band subsequently suing the network, claiming they were being unfairly punished.[111] The lawsuit was eventually settled out of court and the band made several subsequent appearances on the network.[112]

In 2005, Mötley Crüe was involved in an animation-comedy spoof Disaster!,[113] which was written by Paul Benson and Matt Sullivan and which was used as the introduction film to concerts on their Carnival of Sins tour.[114] That tour continued throughout 2005 and was commemorated with the release of a live album and DVD in 2006.[115][116] In the fall of 2005 the band re-recorded "Home Sweet Home" as a duet with Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington and donated the proceeds to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.[117]

In 2006, Mötley Crüe went on the Route of All Evil Tour, co-headlining with Aerosmith and taking performers from Lucent Dossier Experience on the road with them.[118] 2006 also saw the band sign with Paramount Pictures and MTV Films to adapt their autobiography The Dirt into a movie,[119] but the production was delayed for several years and the deal eventually fell through.[120] In June 2007, Mötley Crüe set out on a small European tour. A lawsuit was filed by Neil, Mars and Sixx against Carl Stubner, Lee's manager. The three sued him for contracting for Lee to appear on two unsuccessful reality shows the band claim hurt its image.[121] It was later reported on Motley.com that the lawsuit had been settled.[122]

In 2007, Sixx published his diaries as the bestselling autobiography The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star, covering the band's Girls, Girls, Girls world tour and his 1987 overdose,[123] and Sixx's side project band Sixx:A.M. released The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack as a musical parallel to the novel.[124]

2008–10: Saints of Los Angeles

The band hosted the Motley Cruise from January 24 to 28 in 2008; this featured Ratt, Skid Row and Slaughter.[125]

On June 11, 2008, Mötley Crüe and manager Burt Stein filed suit against each other. Stein was Neil's personal manager and also, according to the band and rival manager Kovac, served as the band's manager at one time. The band and Kovac sued in Los Angeles County Superior Court, claiming Stein was not entitled to a cut of Mötley Crüe's earnings. Stein sued the same day in Nashville's federal court, saying he was entitled to 1.875 percent of what the band makes.[126] Other litigation between the parties also ensued in Nevada. In July 2009, lawyers for both sides announced that the disputes had been "amicably resolved" through a "global settlement".[127]

Mötley Crüe's ninth studio album, titled Saints of Los Angeles, was released in Japan on June 17, 2008, and in America on June 24, 2008.[128] The album was originally titled The Dirt, as it was loosely based on the band's autobiography of the same name, but the title was later changed. In the US, the album was released by Eleven Seven Music. Eleven Seven also took over US distribution of their back catalog.[129]

iTunes picked "Saints of Los Angeles" in their "Best of 2008" in the Rock category as the number one song. The song was also nominated for a Grammy Award in the "Best Hard Rock Performance" category, but lost to "Wax Simulacra" by The Mars Volta.[130] The song was released in the music game series Rock Band as downloadable content the day the single was released. It was briefly sold as a Rock Band exclusive, making Mötley Crüe the first band to release a single exclusively through a video game.[131] The song sold more units via Rock Band than it did via traditional streaming sites.[132] Additionally, the entire Dr. Feelgood album was released as downloadable content in Rock Band, excluding "T.n.T. (Terror 'n Tinseltown)".[133]

From July 1 to August 31, 2008, Mötley Crüe headlined the popular Crüe Fest music festival, which included opening acts Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Trapt, and Sixx:A.M.[134] They then spent the fall and winter of that year on tour with Hinder, Theory of a Deadman and The Last Vegas.[135]

 
Mötley Crüe performs in Erie, Pennsylvania on March 7, 2009

The band made a guest appearance in the fourth season finale of the FOX crime dramedy Bones on May 14, 2009, entitled "The End in the Beginning", performing the song "Dr. Feelgood".[136] The following month they performed at the Download Festival at the Donington Park motorsports circuit (June 12–14, 2009), playing on the second stage on Friday night.[137]

Mötley Crüe headlined the Crüe Fest 2 festival, which ran from July to September 2009. Supporting them were Godsmack, Theory of a Deadman, Drowning Pool, and Charm City Devils. The band's set celebrated the 20th anniversary of Dr. Feelgood by performing the album in its entirety on each night of the tour. They also re-released the album as a special 20th anniversary deluxe edition.[138]

Mötley Crüe headlined Ozzfest in 2010, along with Ozzy Osbourne and Rob Halford.[139] Neil also released his third solo album and autobiography, both entitled Tattoos and Tequila.[140]

2011–2015: The Final Tour and retirement from touring

 
Mötley Crüe performs at Kaisaniemi Park in Helsinki, Finland in June 2012

Mötley Crüe co-headlined a mid-year tour with Poison and special guests New York Dolls in 2011 for the band's 30th Anniversary and Poison's 25th anniversary.[141] On August 30, 2011, Mötley Crüe, along with co-headliners Def Leppard and special guests Steel Panther, announced a UK Tour commencing in December 2011.[142]

In February 2012 the band appeared along with supermodel Adriana Lima in a commercial for the Kia Optima, which premiered during Super Bowl XLVI.[143] February 2012 also saw the band host its first residency at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.[144] In March 2012, Mötley Crüe announced a co-headlining tour with Kiss. The tour kicked off July 20 in Bristow, Virginia, and ran through September 23.[145] In the spring and summer of 2013 the band toured throughout Canada with Big Wreck.[146] The band returned to Las Vegas for a second residency in the fall of 2013.[147]

On January 28, 2014, at the conference inside Beacher's Madhouse Theater in Hollywood, Mötley Crüe announced the full details of its retirement, including a tour initially spanning 70 North American dates, with Alice Cooper playing as a special guest. The tour commenced in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on July 2, 2014. The band members had signed a "cessation of touring agreement", which prevented them from touring under the Mötley Crüe name beyond the end of 2015.[148][149] In a later interview, Sixx talked about the possibility of releasing new music, saying that "We have music written, [but] it's not put together yet". He also speculated that the band would release it in a song-by-song format as opposed to a full-length album format, elaborating with "It's hard, to be honest with you, to spend six [or] nine months to write eleven songs—all those lyrics ... everything ... the vocals, the guitars, the bass, the sonics, the mixing, the mastering, the artwork. ... You put it out and nothing [happens], because now people cherry-pick songs. So we go, 'Why don't we write songs and find vehicles to get one, two or four songs to ten million people rather than eleven songs to a hundred thousand people."[150]

During the tour the band played a new song, "All Bad Things", over the speakers throughout the venue before it took the stage. On November 22, 2014, in Spokane, Washington, at the Spokane Arena, Mötley Crüe played the final concert of the first North American leg of The Final Tour.[151]

On January 15, 2015, it was announced that the band's career would end with international concerts in Japan, Australia, Brazil and Europe before heading out for a second leg of North American concerts throughout 2015, ending with a concert at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on December 27, followed by three concerts at Staples Center on December 28, 30 and 31, 2015. In May 2015, The Crüe and Alice Cooper announced a set of 12 concert dates for Europe at a conference in London.[152]

On September 19, 2015, the band played the Rock in Rio festival on the main stage.[153]

Mötley Crüe performed, for what was then advertised to be the last time, at Staples Center in Los Angeles on December 31, 2015. The band reported that its New Year's Eve show was going to be released as a film in 2016; the movie was titled Motley Crue: THE END.[154]

2018–present: Reunion, The Dirt film, new music, return to touring, and Mars' retirement

In 2017, frontman Vince Neil told host Sammy Hagar on the show Rock and Roll Road Trip that Mötley Crüe were "completely done".[155] However, on September 13, 2018, Neil announced via Twitter that Mötley Crüe was recording four new songs;[14][156] this was later also confirmed by bassist Nikki Sixx, who said that the new material was recorded for the film adaptation of the band's biography, The Dirt.[15] Neil also clarified that, though the band has signed a contract to no longer tour, they still plan to continue putting out new music for the future.[157]

Netflix released The Dirt biopic based on the book of the same name that coincided with an 18-song soundtrack on March 22, 2019.[158] The film is directed by Jeff Tremaine, (Jackass), produced by Julie Yorn and Erik Olsen, executive produced by Rick Yorn,[159] and co-produced by Kovac who is Mötley Crüe's manager, CEO of Eleven Seven Label Group[160] and founder of Tenth Street Entertainment.[161] The Dirt stars Daniel Webber as Neil, Iwan Rheon (Game of Thrones) as Mars, Douglas Booth as Sixx and Colson Baker (aka Machine Gun Kelly) as Lee.[162] Also starring in the movie is Pete Davidson (Saturday Night Live) as record executive Tom Zutaut.[163] Rolling Stone wrote that The Dirt is "a truly debauched movie that delves deep into their rise from the early Eighties Sunset Strip metal scene to their days as arena headliners."[164] The film portrays many of the adventures the band went on including touring with Ozzy Osbourne and the Theatre of Pain tour.[165]

The first new song from the soundtrack was "The Dirt (Est.1981)", which was released on February 22, 2019. The band wrote two other new songs, "Ride With the Devil" and "Crash and Burn", and covered Madonna's "Like a Virgin", on the album. The soundtrack additionally included fourteen previously-released Mötley Crüe songs. It was produced by Bob Rock, who produced Dr. Feelgood, and was released on March 22, 2019, on Mötley Records and Eleven Seven Music.[166] The soundtrack hit the Billboard Top 10 at No. 10, the first time Mötley Crüe hit the Billboard Top 10 in over a decade.[167]

The group's legacy was also featured on a 2019 episode of the Reelz documentary series Breaking the Band. Both Neil and Sixx had a negative reaction to how things were portrayed in the episode. Sixx said they would be pursuing legal action and called Reelz "the bottom of the barrel."[168]

In November 2019, rumors started to circulate of the band reuniting for a 2020 tour with Def Leppard and Poison, following the success of Guns N' Roses' reunion tour. The band responded to an online petition rallying for the group's return, saying "this is interesting...".[169] On November 18, Rolling Stone magazine reported that all four band members had agreed to come back together for the tour, utilizing a loophole in their "Cessation of Touring" contract.[170] Later that same day, the band confirmed all reports with a statement on their website, posting a press release and a video of the contract being destroyed.[171] On December 4, 2019, it was officially confirmed that Mötley Crüe would embark on The Stadium Tour with Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts in the summer of 2020.[172] Also in December 2019 Mick Mars announced that his debut solo album would be released in the spring of 2020.[173] On June 1, 2020, Mötley Crüe announced that The Stadium Tour would be rescheduled to June–September 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic;[174] it was postponed once again to 2022, due to similar circumstances amid the pandemic.[20] In January 2022, in the wake of the Omicron variant surge, Sixx was asked by a fan on Twitter if The Stadium Tour was still happening this year; his response was, "We're 1000% hitting the road with Def Leppard for The Stadium Tour in mid-June...I can't f'ckin wait..."[175] Just prior to the start of the tour, Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen announced that Mötley Crüe had "signed up" for another tour together in Europe, which is slated to take place in 2023;[176] this claim was later confirmed by Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott.[177]

In November 2021, Mötley Crüe sold their entire back catalogue to BMG Rights Management.[178]

In September 2022, Neil announced in an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the band would return for a US tour in 2024. In that same interview, he also ruled out the possibility of further studio albums, stating that they were "strictly a touring band".[179][180]

On October 26, 2022, Mick Mars retired as a touring member of the band due to ongoing health issues, according to a statement released by Mars' publicist.[181] The next day, the band confirmed that John 5 would take Mars' place as their new touring guitarist.[182][183]

Musical style

Mötley Crüe's musical style has been described as heavy metal,[1][184][185] glam metal,[186][187] hard rock,[188][189][185] glam rock,[185] and power pop.[185] According to AllMusic, "[they have] a knack for melding pop hooks to heavy metal theatrics."[1] The band changed to a more alternative metal and grunge sound on Mötley Crüe (1994)[190] and industrial rock on Generation Swine (1997).

Legacy

Music critic Martin Popoff's book The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time lists seven of the band's songs in its ranking.[191] Mötley Crüe was ranked tenth on MTV's list of "Top 10 Heavy Metal Bands of All-Time" and ninth on "VH1's All Time Top Ten Metal Bands".[192] Music website Loudwire named the band the 22nd greatest metal band of all-time.[193] Spin named Shout at the Devil the 11th best metal album of all-time.[194] In 2013 LA Weekly named the band the 3rd best "hair metal" band of all-time.[195] Rolling Stone named Too Fast For Love the 22nd best metal album of all-time.[196]

In 2006, the band received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[197]

In 2014, the tribute album Nashville Outlaws was released, featuring country music stars including Rascal Flatts, LeAnn Rimes and Darius Rucker covering various Mötley Crüe songs.[198] The album debuted at number 2 on the Billboard Country Album chart and number 5 on the Billboard 200.[199]

Band members

Timeline

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Mötley Crüe

Discography

Main article: Mötley Crüe discography

Tours

  • 1981: Anywhere, USA Tour
  • 1981–1982: Boys in Action Tour
  • 1982: Crüesing Through Canada Tour
  • 1985–1986: Welcome to the Theatre of Pain Tour
  • 1987–1988: Girls, Girls, Girls Tour Tour
  • October 1989 – August 1990: Dr. Feelgood World Tour
  • 1991: Monsters of Rock Tour
  • 1994: Anywhere There's Electricity Tour
  • 1997: Live Swine Listening Party Tour
  • 1997: Mötley Crüe vs. The Earth Tour
  • 1998–1999: Greatest Hits Tour
  • June–September 1999: Maximum Rock Tour
  • 1999: Welcome to the Freekshow Tour
  • 2000: Maximum Rock 2000 Tour
  • 2000: New Tattoo Tour
  • 2005: Red, White & Crüe ... Better Live Than Dead Tour
  • 2005–2006: Carnival of Sins Tour
  • 2007: Mötley Crüe Tour
  • July–August 2008: Crüe Fest Tour
  • October 2008 – July 2009: Saints of Los Angeles Tour
  • July–September 2010: Crüe Fest 2 Tour
  • 2010: The Dead of Winter Tour
  • 2010: Ozzfest Tour
  • 2011: Glam-A-Geddon Tour
  • October 2011: Mötley Crüe 30th Anniversary Tour
  • 2011: Mötley Crüe England Tour
  • 2012: European Tour
  • July 2012–March 2013: The Tour
  • April–July 2013: North American Tour
  • July 2014 – December 2015: The Final Tour
  • June 2022–September 2022: The Stadium Tour
  • February 2023–July 2023: The World Tour

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b Mars retired from touring in 2022. He is, however, still considered an official member of the band.

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mötley, crüe, band, 1994, album, album, similarly, named, post, malone, song, motley, crew, song, 1950s, 1960s, jazz, band, called, motley, crew, frank, motley, american, heavy, metal, band, formed, hollywood, california, 1981, group, founded, bassist, nikki, . For the band s 1994 album see Motley Crue album For the similarly named Post Malone song see Motley Crew song For the 1950s and 1960s jazz and R amp B band called Motley Crew see Frank Motley Motley Crue is an American heavy metal band formed in Hollywood California in 1981 1 2 3 The group was founded by bassist Nikki Sixx drummer Tommy Lee lead guitarist Mick Mars and lead singer Vince Neil Motley Crue has sold over 100 million albums worldwide 4 5 6 They have also achieved seven platinum or multi platinum certifications nine Top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 chart including 1989 s Dr Feelgood which is Motley Crue s only album to reach number one twenty two Top 40 mainstream rock hits and six Top 20 pop singles 7 8 The band experienced several short term lineup changes in the 1990s and 2000s these included the introduction of vocalist John Corabi who was Neil s replacement from 1992 to 1996 and drummers Randy Castillo and Samantha Maloney both of whom filled in for Lee following his departure from Motley Crue in 1999 he returned to the band in 2004 More recently in 2022 guitarist Mick Mars announced his retirement from touring with the band with former Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie guitarist John 5 taking his place on live duties Motley CrueMotley Crue performing live in 2012 from left to right Vince Neil Nikki Sixx background Tommy Lee foreground Mick MarsBackground informationOriginHollywood California U S GenresHeavy metal glam metal hard rockYears active1981 presentLabelsMotley Eleven Seven Music Elektra Leathur Warner Music GroupMembersNikki Sixx Mick Mars a Vince Neil Tommy LeePast membersJohn Corabi Randy CastilloWebsitemotley wbr comThe members of Motley Crue have often been noted for their hedonistic lifestyles and the androgynous personae they maintained Following the hard rock and heavy metal origins on the band s first two albums Too Fast for Love 1981 and Shout at the Devil 1983 the release of its third album Theatre of Pain 1985 saw Motley Crue joining the first wave of glam metal 9 10 The band has also been known for their elaborate live performances which feature flame thrower guitars roller coaster drum kits and heavy use of pyrotechnics fireworks including lighting Sixx on fire 7 11 Motley Crue s last studio album Saints of Los Angeles was released on June 24 2008 What was planned to be the band s final show took place on New Year s Eve December 31 2015 The concert was filmed for a theatrical and Blu ray release in 2016 12 13 After two and a half years of inactivity Neil announced in September 2018 that Motley Crue had reunited and was working on new material 14 15 On March 22 2019 the band released four new songs on the soundtrack for its Netflix biopic The Dirt based on the band s New York Times best selling autobiography of the same name The soundtrack went to number one on the iTunes All Genres Album Chart 16 number 3 on the Billboard Top Album and Digital Album sales charts 17 number 10 on the Billboard 200 and Top 10 worldwide 18 The autobiography returned to New York Times Best Seller list at number 6 on Nonfiction Print and number 8 on Nonfiction Combined Print amp E Book 19 Motley Crue embarked on its first major tour in seven years in the summer and fall of 2022 co headlining a North American tour with Def Leppard 20 Contents 1 History 1 1 1981 1983 Early history and Too Fast for Love 1 2 1983 1991 International fame and addiction struggles 1 3 1992 2003 Years of turmoil 1 4 2004 2007 Reunion and renewed success 1 5 2008 10 Saints of Los Angeles 1 6 2011 2015 The Final Tour and retirement from touring 1 7 2018 present Reunion The Dirt film new music return to touring and Mars retirement 2 Musical style 3 Legacy 4 Band members 5 Awards and nominations 6 Discography 7 Tours 8 References 8 1 Notes 8 2 Citations 9 External linksHistory Edit1981 1983 Early history and Too Fast for Love Edit Motley Crue was formed on January 17 1981 when bassist Nikki Sixx left the band London and began rehearsing with drummer Tommy Lee and vocalist guitarist Greg Leon 21 Lee had previously worked with Leon in a band called Suite 19 22 and the trio practiced together for some time Leon eventually decided not to continue with them Sixx and Lee then began a search for new members and soon met guitarists Robin Moore Jeff Gill 23 and Bob Deal better known as Mick Mars after answering an advertisement that he placed in The Recycler that read Loud rude and aggressive guitar player available Mars auditioned for Sixx Moore and Lee and was subsequently hired while Moore was fired at the same session according to the band s biography The Dirt 24 Although a lead vocalist named O Dean was auditioned 25 26 Lee had known Vince Neil from their high school days at Charter Oak High School in Covina California 27 and the two had performed in different bands on the garage band circuit Upon seeing him perform with the band Rock Candy at the Starwood in Hollywood California Mars suggested they have Neil join the band At first Neil refused the offer but as the other members of Rock Candy became involved in outside projects Neil grew anxious to try something else 28 Lee asked again Neil was hired on April 1 1981 and the band played its first gig at the Starwood nightclub on April 24 29 I wanted a band that would be like David Bowie and the Sex Pistols thrown in a blender with Black Sabbath Nikki Sixx 30 The newly formed band did not yet have a name Sixx has said that he told his bandmates that he was thinking about calling the band Christmas The other members were not very receptive to that idea Then while trying to find a suitable name Mars remembered an incident that occurred when he was playing with a band called White Horse when one of the other band members called the group a motley looking crew He had remembered the phrase and later copied it down as Mottley Cru After modifying the spelling slightly Motley Crue was eventually selected as the band s name with the stylistic decision suggested by Neil to add the two sets of metal umlauts supposedly inspired by the German beer Lowenbrau which the members were drinking at the time 31 Other than the periods of February 1992 to September 1996 and of March 1999 to September 2004 the lineup of Neil Sixx Lee and Mars remained the same 32 The band soon met its first manager Allan Coffman the thirty eight year old brother in law of a friend of Mars s driver 33 The band s first release was the single Stick to Your Guns Toast of the Town which was released on its own record label Leathur Records which had a pressing and distribution deal with Greenworld Distribution in Torrance California In November 1981 its debut album Too Fast for Love was self produced and released on Leathur selling 20 000 copies Coffman s assistant Eric Greif set up a tour of Canada 34 while Coffman and Greif used Motley Crue s success in the Los Angeles club scene to negotiate with several record labels eventually signing a recording contract with Elektra Records in early 1982 The debut album was then re mixed by producer Roy Thomas Baker and re released on August 20 1982 two months after its Canadian Warner Music Group release using the original Leathur mixes to coincide with the tour 35 Listening to Queen inspired Motley Crue to work with Roy Thomas Baker on Too Fast for Love He would come in Hello Darlings and listen for maybe thirty minutes or so and leave And we re like What Where s he going But he produced Queen so man we had to have him produce us too Tommy Lee 36 During the Cruesing Through Canada Tour 82 there were several widely publicized incidents First the band was arrested and then released at Edmonton International Airport for wearing their spiked stage wardrobe considered dangerous weapons through customs and for Neil arriving with a small carry on filled with porn magazines considered indecent material both were staged PR stunts Customs eventually had the confiscated items destroyed Second while playing Scandals Disco in Edmonton a spurious bomb threat against the band made the front page of the Edmonton Journal 37 on June 9 1982 Lee and assistant band manager Greif were interviewed by police as a result This too ended up being a staged PR stunt perpetrated by Greif Lastly Lee threw a television set from an upper story window of the Sheraton Caravan Hotel Canadian rock magazine Music Express noted that the band was banned for life from the city 38 Despite the tour ending prematurely in financial disaster it was the basis for the band s first international press 39 In 1983 the band changed management from Coffman to Doug Thaler and Doc McGhee McGhee is best known for managing Bon Jovi and later Kiss starting with their reunion tour in 1996 Greif subsequently sued all parties in a Los Angeles Superior Court action that dragged on for several years and coincidentally later re surfaced as manager of Sixx s former band London Coffman himself was sued by several investors to whom he had sold stock in the band including Michigan based Bill Larson Coffman eventually declared bankruptcy as he had mortgaged his home at least three times to cover band expenses 40 1983 1991 International fame and addiction struggles Edit Too Fast For Love the title track from the band s debut album was reportedly recorded over a span of three days while the band members were under the influence of alcohol Their antics included according to the website Page Six urinating in public or on the floors of their bedrooms and throwing beds and furniture such as futons out of hotel windows in Hamburg Germany Nikki Sixx had been arrested for the first time while selling chocolate mescaline at a Rolling Stones concert in 1973 The band became rapidly successful in the United States after playing at the US Festival in May 1983 41 and also with the aid of the new medium of MTV Their second album Shout at the Devil was released in September 1983 42 The album represented the band s mainstream breakthrough and would eventually be certified 4 platinum 43 The album generated controversy for its title track and album imagery both of which invoked Satanism 44 45 They then gained the attention of heavy metal legend Ozzy Osbourne and found themselves as the opening act for Osbourne on his 1984 tour for Bark at the Moon The band members were well known for their backstage antics outrageous clothing extreme high heeled boots heavily applied make up and seemingly endless abuse of alcohol and drugs as well 46 The band members also had their share of run ins with the law On December 8 1984 Neil was driving home from a liquor run in his De Tomaso Pantera which ended in a head on collision his passenger Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas Razzle Dingley was killed 47 Neil charged with a DUI and vehicular manslaughter was sentenced to 30 days in jail although he served only 18 days and subsequently sued for 2 500 000 The short jail term was negotiated by his lawyers enabling Neil to tour and pay the civil suit 48 The band s third album Theatre of Pain was released in June 1985 and dedicated in Dingley s honor and it started a new glam metal phase in the band s style 49 Theatre of Pain was commercially successful reaching number 6 on the Billboard album charts 50 and eventually being certified quadruple platinum 51 However the recording of the album was fraught with tension in the wake of Neil s accident and Sixx s growing addiction 52 and members of the band have said that they consider it a creative disappointment 53 Motley Crue spent most of the next year on a world tour in support of Theatre of Pain In February 1986 in London England Sixx suffered a near fatal heroin overdose and the person who sold him the drugs dumped his unconscious body in a dumpster The incident inspired Sixx to write the song Dancing on Glass for their next album 54 The band s fourth album Girls Girls Girls was released in May 1987 and debuted at number 2 on the Billboard 200 55 Sixx has said in interviews that he believes the album would have debuted at number 1 if not for behind the scenes maneuvering by Whitney Houston s record label 56 The band again changed their look for the album and subsequent tour trading the glam elements of the previous album for a biker aesthetic 57 The band faced many of the same personal issues that plagued the recording of Theatre of Pain and Sixx has complained that those issues compromised the album s quality 58 although he has spoken more positively about the record in subsequent years 59 On December 23 1987 Sixx suffered a heroin overdose He was declared clinically dead on the way to the hospital but the paramedic who was a Crue fan revived Sixx with two shots of adrenaline 60 His two minutes in death were the inspiration for the song Kickstart My Heart which peaked at No 16 on the Mainstream U S chart and which was featured on the 1989 U S number one their first album Dr Feelgood From 1986 to 1987 Sixx kept a daily diary of his heroin addiction and eventually entered rehab in January 1988 In 1988 controversy again hit the band in the form of a lawsuit by Matthew Trippe Trippe claimed that Sixx was hospitalized in 1983 after a car crash involving drugs and that he had been hired as Sixx s doppelganger The suit was regarding the loss of royalties from his time in Motley Crue and the case was not closed until 1993 when Trippe dropped his charges and disappeared from public view 61 Their decadent lifestyles almost shattered the band until managers Thaler and McGhee pulled an intervention and refused to allow the band to tour in Europe fearing that some of them would come back in bodybags 62 Shortly after all the band members jointly entered drug rehabilitation in an effort to move forward as a band 63 After finding sobriety Motley Crue reached its peak popularity with the release of their fifth album the Bob Rock produced Dr Feelgood on September 1 1989 Rock and the band recorded the album in Vancouver with the band members recording their parts separately for the first time to reduce infighting and to focus on individual performance Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler who was recording the album Pump at the same studio provided backing vocals 64 On October 14 of that year it became a No 1 album and stayed on the charts for 114 weeks after its release 65 The band members each stated in interviews that due in no small part to their collective push for sobriety Dr Feelgood was their most solid album musically to that point 66 The title track and Kickstart My Heart were both nominated for Grammys in the Best Hard Rock Category in 1990 and 1991 respectively but lost both years to songs by Living Colour 67 The band did find some success at the American Music Awards as Dr Feelgood was nominated twice for Favorite Hard Rock Metal Award losing once to Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction but winning the following year beating out Aerosmith s Pump and Poison s Flesh amp Blood Motley Crue was also nominated twice for Favorite Hard Rock Metal Artist 68 In 1989 McGhee was fired after the band alleged he had broken several promises that he made in relation to the Moscow Music Peace Festival including giving his other band Bon Jovi advantages in terms of slot placement Thaler then assumed the role of sole band manager 69 The band spent the fall of 1989 and most of 1990 on a massive world tour the band s biggest to that point It was a major financial success but left the band feeling burnt out 70 In April 1990 Lee suffered a concussion during a mishap involving a rappelling drum kit stunt during a live concert in New Haven Connecticut 71 On October 1 1991 the band s first compilation album Decade of Decadence 81 91 was released It peaked at No 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart It was reportedly designed as just something for the fans while the band worked on the next all new album 72 1992 2003 Years of turmoil Edit Vince Neil left the band in February 1992 following the release of Decade of Decadence during a period in which most other prominent glam metal bands of the 1980s were breaking up or otherwise seeing their popularity decline significantly amid the advent of grunge and alternative music It remains unclear whether Neil was fired or quit the band Sixx has long maintained that Neil quit while Neil insists that he was fired Any band has its little spats Neil observed in 2000 and this one basically just stemmed from a bunch of fuck yous in a rehearsal studio It went from I quit to You re fired It was handled idiotically The management just let one of the biggest bands in the world break up 73 In the running for the vacant frontman position was Kik Tracee vocalist Stephen Shareaux 74 75 Ultimately Neil was replaced by John Corabi formerly of Angora and the Scream Although Motley s self titled March 1994 release made the Billboard top ten 7 the album was a commercial failure It also prompted negative reactions from many fans due to Neil s absence and its sound Corabi suggested the band bring back Neil believing the latter would always be seen as the voice of the band This eventually resulted in his own firing in 1996 76 Corabi spoke about his time with the band and his thoughts on the first record with Motley Crue Corabi said my record was the first record that they had done that didn t go platinum didn t make some sort of crazy noise and everybody panicked 77 During his time away from the band Neil released a moderately successful solo album Exposed in 1993 78 and a less commercially successful follow up Carved in Stone in 1995 79 After Rolling Stone magazine broke out the news in their november 26 1996 issue the band reunited with Neil in 1997 80 after their current manager Allen Kovac and Neil s manager Bert Stein set up a meeting between Neil Lee and Sixx Agreeing to leave their egos at the door the band released Generation Swine Although it debuted at No 4 and in spite of a live performance at the American Music Awards the album was a commercial failure due in part to lack of support from their label 81 In 1998 Motley s contractual ties with Elektra had expired putting the band in total control of their future including the ownership of the master recordings of all of their albums Announcing the end of their relationship with Elektra the band became one of the few groups to own and control their publishing and music catalog They are one of only a handful of artists to own the masters to their material and reportedly did so by being the biggest pain they could be until Elektra got fed up and handed over the rights in order to get the band off their label 82 After leaving Elektra the band created their own label Motley Records 83 Motley released their compilation Greatest Hits in late 1998 featuring two new songs Bitter Pill and Enslaved 84 In 1999 the band rereleased all their albums dubbed as Crucial Crue These limited edition digital remasters included demos plus live instrumental and previously unreleased tracks 85 In 1999 the band also released Supersonic and Demonic Relics an updated version of Decade of Decadence featuring the original songs from that album and several previously unreleased B sides and remixes 86 as well as their first official live album Entertainment or Death 87 which was the original working title for the studio album Theatre of Pain 88 The band then went on a co headlining tour with The Scorpions 89 In 1999 Lee quit to pursue a solo career due to increasing tensions with Neil All we got was a call from his attorney saying he wasn t coming back recalled the singer He wasn t into rock n roll anymore He even said that rock is dead It all happened during a void in Motley We weren t even rehearsing so it was no big deal 90 Lee was replaced by a longtime friend of the band former Ozzy Osbourne drummer Randy Castillo The band released New Tattoo in July 2000 91 Before the ensuing tour commenced Castillo became ill with a duodenal ulcer The band brought in former Hole drummer Samantha Maloney for the Maximum Rock tour with Megadeth 92 as Castillo concentrated on his health However while Castillo was recovering from stomach surgery he was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma after finding a tumor on his jaw He died on March 26 2002 93 Soon afterward the band went on hiatus 94 While the band was on hiatus Sixx played in side projects 58 and Brides of Destruction 95 96 Neil was featured on the first season of VH1 s reality show The Surreal Life 97 and had his own special titled Remaking Vince Neil which focused on his solo career and attempts to get in better physical shape 98 Mars who suffers from a hereditary form of arthritis which causes extensive spinal pain called ankylosing spondylitis 99 went into seclusion in 2001 dealing with health issues Lee went on to form Methods of Mayhem 100 and also performed as a solo artist during this time 101 A 2001 autobiography titled The Dirt co authored by all four of the band members and Neil Strauss presented Motley as the world s most notorious rock band The book made the top ten on The New York Times Best Seller list and spent ten weeks there and would return to the list after the film adaptation was released in spring 2019 102 In 2003 the band released two box sets entitled Music to Crash Your Car To Vol 1 and Vol 2 featuring the music from their entire career 103 104 The titles of the collections were heavily criticized by Hanoi Rocks singer Michael Monroe among others due to their possible reference to Vince Neil and Razzle s fatal automobile accident and that Neil was found guilty of manslaughter for the incident 105 2004 2007 Reunion and renewed success Edit Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars performing onstage with Motley Crue on June 14 2005 in Glasgow Scotland A promoter in England Mags Revell began clamoring for a Motley Crue reunion ostensibly presenting himself as the voice of anxious fans waiting for more from the band 106 After meeting with management several times in September 2004 Sixx announced that he and Neil had returned to the studio and had begun recording new material In December 2004 the four original members announced a reunion tour staging an announcement event in which they arrived at the Hollywood Palladium in a hearse 107 The tour began on February 14 2005 in San Juan Puerto Rico 108 The resulting compilation album Red White amp Crue was released in February 2005 It features the band members favorite original songs plus three new tracks If I Die Tomorrow Sick Love Song co written by Sixx and James Michael and a cover of the Rolling Stones classic Street Fighting Man A small controversy was caused when it was suggested that neither Lee nor Mars played on the new tracks duties were supposedly handled by Vandals drummer Josh Freese citation needed However a VH1 documentary of the band s reunion later showed that Lee did indeed play on some of the tracks The Japanese release of Red White amp Crue includes an extra new track titled I m a Liar and That s the Truth Red White amp Crue charted at No 6 and has since gone platinum 109 On New Year s Eve 2004 the band appeared on a live episode of The Tonight Show Neil yelled an obscenity during the performance leading to an FCC investigation 110 The NBC network responded by banning the band leading to the band subsequently suing the network claiming they were being unfairly punished 111 The lawsuit was eventually settled out of court and the band made several subsequent appearances on the network 112 In 2005 Motley Crue was involved in an animation comedy spoof Disaster 113 which was written by Paul Benson and Matt Sullivan and which was used as the introduction film to concerts on their Carnival of Sins tour 114 That tour continued throughout 2005 and was commemorated with the release of a live album and DVD in 2006 115 116 In the fall of 2005 the band re recorded Home Sweet Home as a duet with Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington and donated the proceeds to the victims of Hurricane Katrina 117 In 2006 Motley Crue went on the Route of All Evil Tour co headlining with Aerosmith and taking performers from Lucent Dossier Experience on the road with them 118 2006 also saw the band sign with Paramount Pictures and MTV Films to adapt their autobiography The Dirt into a movie 119 but the production was delayed for several years and the deal eventually fell through 120 In June 2007 Motley Crue set out on a small European tour A lawsuit was filed by Neil Mars and Sixx against Carl Stubner Lee s manager The three sued him for contracting for Lee to appear on two unsuccessful reality shows the band claim hurt its image 121 It was later reported on Motley com that the lawsuit had been settled 122 In 2007 Sixx published his diaries as the bestselling autobiography The Heroin Diaries A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star covering the band s Girls Girls Girls world tour and his 1987 overdose 123 and Sixx s side project band Sixx A M released The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack as a musical parallel to the novel 124 2008 10 Saints of Los Angeles Edit The band hosted the Motley Cruise from January 24 to 28 in 2008 this featured Ratt Skid Row and Slaughter 125 On June 11 2008 Motley Crue and manager Burt Stein filed suit against each other Stein was Neil s personal manager and also according to the band and rival manager Kovac served as the band s manager at one time The band and Kovac sued in Los Angeles County Superior Court claiming Stein was not entitled to a cut of Motley Crue s earnings Stein sued the same day in Nashville s federal court saying he was entitled to 1 875 percent of what the band makes 126 Other litigation between the parties also ensued in Nevada In July 2009 lawyers for both sides announced that the disputes had been amicably resolved through a global settlement 127 Motley Crue s ninth studio album titled Saints of Los Angeles was released in Japan on June 17 2008 and in America on June 24 2008 128 The album was originally titled The Dirt as it was loosely based on the band s autobiography of the same name but the title was later changed In the US the album was released by Eleven Seven Music Eleven Seven also took over US distribution of their back catalog 129 iTunes picked Saints of Los Angeles in their Best of 2008 in the Rock category as the number one song The song was also nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Hard Rock Performance category but lost to Wax Simulacra by The Mars Volta 130 The song was released in the music game series Rock Band as downloadable content the day the single was released It was briefly sold as a Rock Band exclusive making Motley Crue the first band to release a single exclusively through a video game 131 The song sold more units via Rock Band than it did via traditional streaming sites 132 Additionally the entire Dr Feelgood album was released as downloadable content in Rock Band excluding T n T Terror n Tinseltown 133 From July 1 to August 31 2008 Motley Crue headlined the popular Crue Fest music festival which included opening acts Buckcherry Papa Roach Trapt and Sixx A M 134 They then spent the fall and winter of that year on tour with Hinder Theory of a Deadman and The Last Vegas 135 Motley Crue performs in Erie Pennsylvania on March 7 2009 The band made a guest appearance in the fourth season finale of the FOX crime dramedy Bones on May 14 2009 entitled The End in the Beginning performing the song Dr Feelgood 136 The following month they performed at the Download Festival at the Donington Park motorsports circuit June 12 14 2009 playing on the second stage on Friday night 137 Motley Crue headlined the Crue Fest 2 festival which ran from July to September 2009 Supporting them were Godsmack Theory of a Deadman Drowning Pool and Charm City Devils The band s set celebrated the 20th anniversary of Dr Feelgood by performing the album in its entirety on each night of the tour They also re released the album as a special 20th anniversary deluxe edition 138 Motley Crue headlined Ozzfest in 2010 along with Ozzy Osbourne and Rob Halford 139 Neil also released his third solo album and autobiography both entitled Tattoos and Tequila 140 2011 2015 The Final Tour and retirement from touring Edit Motley Crue performs at Kaisaniemi Park in Helsinki Finland in June 2012 Motley Crue co headlined a mid year tour with Poison and special guests New York Dolls in 2011 for the band s 30th Anniversary and Poison s 25th anniversary 141 On August 30 2011 Motley Crue along with co headliners Def Leppard and special guests Steel Panther announced a UK Tour commencing in December 2011 142 In February 2012 the band appeared along with supermodel Adriana Lima in a commercial for the Kia Optima which premiered during Super Bowl XLVI 143 February 2012 also saw the band host its first residency at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas 144 In March 2012 Motley Crue announced a co headlining tour with Kiss The tour kicked off July 20 in Bristow Virginia and ran through September 23 145 In the spring and summer of 2013 the band toured throughout Canada with Big Wreck 146 The band returned to Las Vegas for a second residency in the fall of 2013 147 On January 28 2014 at the conference inside Beacher s Madhouse Theater in Hollywood Motley Crue announced the full details of its retirement including a tour initially spanning 70 North American dates with Alice Cooper playing as a special guest The tour commenced in Grand Rapids Michigan on July 2 2014 The band members had signed a cessation of touring agreement which prevented them from touring under the Motley Crue name beyond the end of 2015 148 149 In a later interview Sixx talked about the possibility of releasing new music saying that We have music written but it s not put together yet He also speculated that the band would release it in a song by song format as opposed to a full length album format elaborating with It s hard to be honest with you to spend six or nine months to write eleven songs all those lyrics everything the vocals the guitars the bass the sonics the mixing the mastering the artwork You put it out and nothing happens because now people cherry pick songs So we go Why don t we write songs and find vehicles to get one two or four songs to ten million people rather than eleven songs to a hundred thousand people 150 During the tour the band played a new song All Bad Things over the speakers throughout the venue before it took the stage On November 22 2014 in Spokane Washington at the Spokane Arena Motley Crue played the final concert of the first North American leg of The Final Tour 151 On January 15 2015 it was announced that the band s career would end with international concerts in Japan Australia Brazil and Europe before heading out for a second leg of North American concerts throughout 2015 ending with a concert at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on December 27 followed by three concerts at Staples Center on December 28 30 and 31 2015 In May 2015 The Crue and Alice Cooper announced a set of 12 concert dates for Europe at a conference in London 152 On September 19 2015 the band played the Rock in Rio festival on the main stage 153 Motley Crue performed for what was then advertised to be the last time at Staples Center in Los Angeles on December 31 2015 The band reported that its New Year s Eve show was going to be released as a film in 2016 the movie was titled Motley Crue THE END 154 2018 present Reunion The Dirt film new music return to touring and Mars retirement Edit In 2017 frontman Vince Neil told host Sammy Hagar on the show Rock and Roll Road Trip that Motley Crue were completely done 155 However on September 13 2018 Neil announced via Twitter that Motley Crue was recording four new songs 14 156 this was later also confirmed by bassist Nikki Sixx who said that the new material was recorded for the film adaptation of the band s biography The Dirt 15 Neil also clarified that though the band has signed a contract to no longer tour they still plan to continue putting out new music for the future 157 Netflix released The Dirt biopic based on the book of the same name that coincided with an 18 song soundtrack on March 22 2019 158 The film is directed by Jeff Tremaine Jackass produced by Julie Yorn and Erik Olsen executive produced by Rick Yorn 159 and co produced by Kovac who is Motley Crue s manager CEO of Eleven Seven Label Group 160 and founder of Tenth Street Entertainment 161 The Dirt stars Daniel Webber as Neil Iwan Rheon Game of Thrones as Mars Douglas Booth as Sixx and Colson Baker aka Machine Gun Kelly as Lee 162 Also starring in the movie is Pete Davidson Saturday Night Live as record executive Tom Zutaut 163 Rolling Stone wrote that The Dirt is a truly debauched movie that delves deep into their rise from the early Eighties Sunset Strip metal scene to their days as arena headliners 164 The film portrays many of the adventures the band went on including touring with Ozzy Osbourne and the Theatre of Pain tour 165 The first new song from the soundtrack was The Dirt Est 1981 which was released on February 22 2019 The band wrote two other new songs Ride With the Devil and Crash and Burn and covered Madonna s Like a Virgin on the album The soundtrack additionally included fourteen previously released Motley Crue songs It was produced by Bob Rock who produced Dr Feelgood and was released on March 22 2019 on Motley Records and Eleven Seven Music 166 The soundtrack hit the Billboard Top 10 at No 10 the first time Motley Crue hit the Billboard Top 10 in over a decade 167 The group s legacy was also featured on a 2019 episode of the Reelz documentary series Breaking the Band Both Neil and Sixx had a negative reaction to how things were portrayed in the episode Sixx said they would be pursuing legal action and called Reelz the bottom of the barrel 168 In November 2019 rumors started to circulate of the band reuniting for a 2020 tour with Def Leppard and Poison following the success of Guns N Roses reunion tour The band responded to an online petition rallying for the group s return saying this is interesting 169 On November 18 Rolling Stone magazine reported that all four band members had agreed to come back together for the tour utilizing a loophole in their Cessation of Touring contract 170 Later that same day the band confirmed all reports with a statement on their website posting a press release and a video of the contract being destroyed 171 On December 4 2019 it was officially confirmed that Motley Crue would embark on The Stadium Tour with Def Leppard Poison and Joan Jett amp the Blackhearts in the summer of 2020 172 Also in December 2019 Mick Mars announced that his debut solo album would be released in the spring of 2020 173 On June 1 2020 Motley Crue announced that The Stadium Tour would be rescheduled to June September 2021 due to the COVID 19 pandemic 174 it was postponed once again to 2022 due to similar circumstances amid the pandemic 20 In January 2022 in the wake of the Omicron variant surge Sixx was asked by a fan on Twitter if The Stadium Tour was still happening this year his response was We re 1000 hitting the road with Def Leppard for The Stadium Tour in mid June I can t f ckin wait 175 Just prior to the start of the tour Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen announced that Motley Crue had signed up for another tour together in Europe which is slated to take place in 2023 176 this claim was later confirmed by Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott 177 In November 2021 Motley Crue sold their entire back catalogue to BMG Rights Management 178 In September 2022 Neil announced in an interview with the Las Vegas Review Journal that the band would return for a US tour in 2024 In that same interview he also ruled out the possibility of further studio albums stating that they were strictly a touring band 179 180 On October 26 2022 Mick Mars retired as a touring member of the band due to ongoing health issues according to a statement released by Mars publicist 181 The next day the band confirmed that John 5 would take Mars place as their new touring guitarist 182 183 Musical style EditMotley Crue s musical style has been described as heavy metal 1 184 185 glam metal 186 187 hard rock 188 189 185 glam rock 185 and power pop 185 According to AllMusic they have a knack for melding pop hooks to heavy metal theatrics 1 The band changed to a more alternative metal and grunge sound on Motley Crue 1994 190 and industrial rock on Generation Swine 1997 Legacy EditMusic critic Martin Popoff s book The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time lists seven of the band s songs in its ranking 191 Motley Crue was ranked tenth on MTV s list of Top 10 Heavy Metal Bands of All Time and ninth on VH1 s All Time Top Ten Metal Bands 192 Music website Loudwire named the band the 22nd greatest metal band of all time 193 Spin named Shout at the Devil the 11th best metal album of all time 194 In 2013 LA Weekly named the band the 3rd best hair metal band of all time 195 Rolling Stone named Too Fast For Love the 22nd best metal album of all time 196 In 2006 the band received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 197 In 2014 the tribute album Nashville Outlaws was released featuring country music stars including Rascal Flatts LeAnn Rimes and Darius Rucker covering various Motley Crue songs 198 The album debuted at number 2 on the Billboard Country Album chart and number 5 on the Billboard 200 199 Band members EditCurrent members Nikki Sixx bass guitar backing vocals 1981 2015 2018 present keyboards 1987 1991 1992 1993 lead vocals 1994 Mick Mars lead guitar backing vocals 1981 2015 2018 present rhythm guitar 1981 1989 1997 2005 2008 2018 present a Vince Neil lead vocals 1981 1992 1997 2015 2018 present rhythm guitar 1989 1992 1997 2005 2008 2015 Tommy Lee drums backing vocals 1981 1999 2004 2015 2018 present piano 1985 1987 1993 1999 2012 2015 lead vocals 1994 Current touring musicians John 5 lead and rhythm guitars backing vocals 2022 present Laura D Anzieri backing vocals dancer 2022 present Bailey Swift backing vocals dancer 2022 present Hannah Sutton backing vocals dancer 2022 present Former members Greg Leon lead and rhythm guitars lead vocals 1981 200 201 John Corabi lead vocals rhythm guitar 1992 1997 bass guitar 1993 1994 Randy Castillo drums 1999 2000 died 2002 Former touring musicians Samantha Maloney drums 2000 2003 Emi Canyn backing vocals 1987 1991 died 2017 Donna McDaniel backing vocals 1987 1991 Jozie DiMaria dancer 1999 2005 2006 202 Marty backing vocals 2000 203 Pearl Aday backing vocals 2000 204 Morgan Rose drums 2009 203 Allison Kyler backing vocals dancer 2011 2015 Annalisia Simone backing vocals 2011 Sofia Toufa backing vocals dancer 2012 2015 Tommy Clufetos drums 2022 substitute for Tommy Lee 205 TimelineAwards and nominations EditMain article List of awards and nominations received by Motley CrueDiscography EditMain article Motley Crue discography Too Fast for Love 1981 Shout at the Devil 1983 Theatre of Pain 1985 Girls Girls 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