1981-Vince Neil (Wharton)Vocals(1981–1992, 1997–2015, 2018-)
Tommy Lee (Bass)Drums(1981–1999, 2004–2015, 2018- )
Mick Mars (Bob Deal)Guitar(1981–2015, 2018-)
Nikki Sixx (Frank Feranna)Bass(1981–2015, 2018-)
Vince Neil and Tommy Lee clashed throughout their tenure in the band. Neil liked to remind Tommy that he had Pamela Anderson first.
Nikki Sixx married
Playboy playmate Donna D'Errico one month after divorcing Brandy Brandt, who was also a playmate. Sixx has four kids: Gunner, Decker, and Storm with Brandi Brandt and Frankie Jean with Donna D'Errico.
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Tommy Lee was married for one month to a woman named Elaine Irwin Bergen, who is not the model who married John Mellencamp. Lee went on to marry Heather Locklear and Pamela Anderson.
Their concerts are extremely loud. After one show, a fan sued the band after suffering hearing loss. The case was thrown out in 1997 when the judge ruled that the fan knew the show would be loud.
Nikki Sixx was pronounced clinically dead after a drug overdose in 1987. He did more drugs the next day, but over the next few years, he and the other members went sober.
In 1995, Neil's 5-year-old daughter Skylar died from stomach cancer.
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Tommy Lee had a Jagermeister tap installed in the bar in his house as well as a Starbucks coffee machine. They were put in by the companies.
Vince Neil married Playboy playmate Heidi Mark in 2000. They divorced 15 months later.
Nikki Sixx is obsessed with fire and made sure pyro was a big part of their act. He experimented with flamethrowers on his bass for about 10 years before finally getting one to work properly on their 2014 tour. He would use it to ignite their pentagram logo.
Neil was charged with vehicular manslaughter after an accident that left a member of Hanoi Rocks dead. The band had been up for several days partying, and Vince was headed to the beer store.
The drug addiction in the group was so bad that at one point, the band was actually mainlining tequila while on tour. Tommy Lee made the comment that normal people would have drank the tequila, not shot it into their veins.
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During a birthday party for his son, a young boy drowned in the pool of Tommy Lee's Los Angeles home. The parents of the child were not there at the time, and attempted to sue Lee for neglect.
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Lead singer Vince Neil starred in a reality show on the WB in 2003 called
The Surreal Life. Other former celebrities on the show were MC Hammer, Corey Feldman, Emanuel Lewis, and the girl who played Andrea on
Beverly Hills 90210.
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Motley Crue reunited in 2004. The tour name was Red, White & Crue. They performed live together on
The Larry King Show, and made news when they played Jay Leno's show live on New Year's Eve - Vince Neil said to Tommy Lee, "Happy f--king New Year!"
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In 2006, they were honored with the 2,301st Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Nikki was seven years old when he first smoked pot. He was with his mother at the time.
Nikki's father died on Christmas day, when he was in the shower and had a heart attack.
Tommy Lee's first tattoo was Mighty Mouse crashing through a bass drum set. "If it wasn't for Nikki," Tommy said, "I wouldn't have any tattoos." This tattoo is located on his right shoulder.
When Vince Neil was a teenager, he would go to skating rinks and compete in lip-syncing contests and would win every time. Vince and his buddies would go out of town to go to these competitions and Vince slowly realized that he was actually singing the songs - and singing them well. That is what gave him an interest in music.
When Mick Mars was prescribed medicine for his back pain, he started to hallucinate. His doctor told him that it would soon go away, but it didn't and Mick was soon seeing his footprints in a glowing orange color on the ground and also ghosts. Mick decided to quit taking the medication.
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The Dirt
Mötley Crüe gave what they claimed was their final performance on December 31, 2015 at Staples Center in Los Angeles. At the start of the tour, they made a big deal about how it would be their last, signing an agreement at a press conference. They stuck to that agreement until 2019, when they announced a co-headlining tour with Def Leppard. That tour was slated to start in the summer of 2020, but the pandemic pushed it back to 2022.
Nikki Sixx recalled Motley Crue's first-ever gig: "When we played at The Starwood on January 17, 1981, nobody cared. We couldn't get a record deal. And I'd say we couldn't get arrested, [but] actually, the only thing we could get was arrested. Our first show ended in a fistfight in the audience, and it wasn't the band fighting each other; it was the band fighting people that were messing with us. And that was the heart and spirit of that band."
Sixx seems to have got his dates mixed up. Motley Crue formed on January 17, 1981 and they played their first concert at the Starwood club in Hollywood, California on April 24, 1981.
Mötley Crüe's rider regularly included a jar of Grey Poupon mustard. On one occasion in 1988, Vince Neil found the 'wrong' brand of mustard backstage, lost his temper and threw the bottle at the wall. It bounced back and severed an artery in his thumb.
Motley Crue penned their autobiography The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band with New York Times writer Neil Strauss. It spent four weeks on the New York Times Bestsellers list in 2001 and returned 18 years later after the release of the Netflix biopic The Dirt, based on the book.
Nikki Sixx was born Frank Feranna in 1958 and partially raised by his mom and grandparents after his father left the family. Once he co-formed the band London in 1978, Feranna legally changed his name to Nikki Six, as he didn't want to carry his dad's name on with himself. He stole his moniker from Jeff Nicholson, who, as frontman of California cover band Squeeze, went by Niki Syxx.