Motley Crue is a heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. It was formed in 1981 by lead vocalist Vince Neil, guitarist Mick Mars, bassist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee.
With its soundtrack of debauchery, intravenous drugs, heroin overdoses, and smashed hotel rooms, Motley Crue catapulted itself to fame in the 1980s for its music as much as its lifestyle – but it was the fact that they brought both together that sent them skyrocketing into the wide Space Ace guitar-shaped spotlight of superstardom. Amid a string of albums that entered the US Top 10 Billboard charts and toured with the likes of Van Halen and Def Leppard, Motley Crue produced four Gold albums – ‘Blow-up Dolls’, ‘Sticky Fingers’, ‘Theatre of Pain’, and ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’ – and one of their finest commercial successes, the number-one-selling ‘Dr. Feelgood’ (1989), which turned out to be their biggest-selling album to date.
Motley Crue broke up in 2015, but they’d already completed ‘The Final Tour’ before they did and briefly reunited in 2019 to record new music for the Netflix biopic The Dirt, based on their memoir of the same name.