Motley Crue

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Be warned! The story of the world’s most infamous rock band isn’t a pretty one. With the possible exception of Ozzy Osbourne, no band consumed as many drugs and downed as much booze without dying as the L.A. quartet Mötley Crüe. And now, the band you never thought you’d see live again is back. All the way back...

The story of their career, which the band elected to tell in graphic detail and with complete honesty in their NY Times best-selling 2001 autobiography, The Dirt (soon to be a major motion picture) is one of dirty needles, damaged minds, music industry battles and sex – lots of sex. And the miraculous thing about the Crüe is not that they lived to tell the tale (although that is, in a way, a kind of unholy miracle), it’s that all of their wildly uncontrollable habits are clearly audible in their music. Just listen to these albums, more than 40 million of which have sold worldwide. If you concentrate hard enough, you can hear the sound of the coke coming off the tables, the squeak of the bed springs, and the sheer sleazy grind of California rock over the last two decades.

In 1981 bassist Nikki Sixx left his glam-rock band London and met up with drummer Tommy Lee. Both were strung-out adolescents in search of good times and a record deal (in that order) and had a knack for creating fists-in-the-air anthems that parlayed their ability to play loud. Responding to an add in LA’s Recycler for a “loud, rude and aggressive guitarist seeking a band” placed by Mick Mars (who reminded Sixx of Cousin Itt from “The Addams Family”) and singer Vince Neil (who Mars referred to, perhaps unwisely, as a “blonde bitch” at their first meeting), the band named themselves Mötley Crüe (the umlauts were intended to make them look tough. Of course, as Vince Neil tells it, the idea came from a bottle of Löwenbräu) and recorded an album, Too Fast for Love, which was released in November 1981 on their own Leathür Records label.

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