Motley Crue

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Motley Crue's Bio: The poster boys for Eighties hair metal, Mötley Crüe parlayed whip-lash hard-rock songs, melodic power ballads and a hedonistic image into platinum-level heavy-metal superstardom, topping the charts with "Dr. Feelgood" and coming close with "Theatre of Pain," "Girls, Girls Girls" and a greatest-hits collection, "Decade of Decadence - '81-'91."

Nikki Sixx was a bassist for successful L.A. metal band London when he decided to form his own band. Tommy Lee came aboard as drummer, and they decided to call themselves Christmas. Guitarist Mick Mars was discovered through a classified ad reading, "Loud Rude Aggressive Guitarist Available." Vocalist Vince Neil was plucked from a Cheap Trick cover band. Mars came up with the new, strangely umlauted name. Their eponymous, independently released debut was picked up by Elektra Records and retitled "Too Fast for Love."

"Shout at the Devil," with its canny hints of Satanism, followed, but the band did not catch on in a big way until "Theatre of Pain." Fueled by a cover of Brownsville Station's 1974 hit "Smokin' in the Boy's Room" and the power ballad "Home Sweet Home," the album sold more than two million copies.

For all the album sales, Crüe also was known as an extravagant live band, a scrappier Van Halen doing a rock version of a Vegas review, with elaborate sets and lighting, revolving drum platforms, pyrotechnics and dancing girls. Still, subsequent albums "Girls, Girls, Girls" and "Dr. Feelgood" continued the band's streak of platinum discs, selling two million and four million copies, respectively. In addition to its selection of greatest hits, "Decade of Decadence" included new material, such as a hard-rock cover version of the Sex Pistols' "Anarchy in the U.K."

Off stage, Mötley Crüe lived the rock & roll lifestyle to its fullest, with celebrity marriages —Tommy Lee to actress Heather Locklear, from 1986 to 1994, then to Baywatch bombshell Pamela Anderson from 1995 to 1998; Nikki Sixx to former Prince protege Vanity in 1987- and tabloid headlines.

After the band replaced Neil with singer John Corabi in 1992, Neil filed a $5 million wrongful termination suit and released a couple of solo albums, "Exposed" and the weak-selling "Carved in Stone." "Mötley Crüe," the band's first album without Neil, produced two songs that charted on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks, "Hooligan's Holiday" and "Misunderstood." The band fired Corabi two years later to bring Neil back on for a reunion of the original lineup. The resulting album, "Generation Swine" attempted to cash in on the alternative-rock craze, with songs exploring grunge and industrial metal, but despite the band's carbon-copy re-recording of an old hit, re-titled "Shout at the Devil '97," the album quickly fell off the chart.

"Greatest Hits" and "Live Entertainment or Death" continued the Crüe's commercial skid. Shortly after completing the subsequent tour, drummer Tommy Lee left the band and formed the rap-metal band Methods of Mayhem, in which he played guitar and sang. Mötley Crüe replaced Lee with former Ozzy Osbourne drummer Randy Castillo and returned to its original hard rock formula for "New Tattoo." Castillo died of cancer two years later.

The band went on a recording hiatus for five years but its members, appearing on reality shows and in gossip columns, never left the public eye. In 2005, the Crüe hit the road for a reunion tour that coincided with another greatest-hits compilation, "Red, White & Crue," that included three new tracks, "If I Die Tomorrow"—penned by pop-punkers Simple Plan— "Sick Love Song," and a cover of The Rolling Stones' "Street Fighting Man."

All four members of Mötley Crüe convened in 2008 to record "Saints of Los Angeles," a musical companion to The Dirt. A planned Dirt movie stalled in the production stages. The title track holds the honor of being the first single to be debuted in the influential Rock Band video game series, and the album debuted at Number Four. The band took the road again in 2009 for Crüe Fest 2. … Read more