Motley Crue

Motley Crue is one of the leading groups of the metal glam movement and more generally popular metal or Hair Metal 80's. The band has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide, most of them in the USA, and has been known for its frascism and excesses of any kind.
The band born in 1981 following the split of London, Nikki Sixx (bass) decided to form a band with Tommy Lee (battery) they then met Mick Mars (guitar) thanks to a small announcement and Vince Neil sang after he had separated from his former band. After several name changes the band finds its name following a criticism describing them as "motley looking crew" (~ "a band with a heteroclite look" "Bariole team").
The band then began the tour of the Los Angeles clubs where they quickly made a reputation, not least thanks to their look greatly influenced by the glam rock movement and more particularly New York Dolls. Allan Coffman, an amateur producer, takes them under his wing and makes them record their first album: Too Fast For Love. Independently released, it still sells 20,000 copies. The band then signed on Elektra Records ( The Doors , Metallica , MC5 , The Stooges , The Prodigy ) which released the remixed album. Two years later, the band returned with Shout At The Devil, the album became a platinum, and the band's decadent history rose to a higher speed, with the title Shout At The Devil becoming a classic. Vince Neil fails to die in a car accident in which his friend Nicholas Dingley (from Hanoi Rock) died and injured the two passengers of the car he hit. He then went into detoxification and would serve 30 days in prison, and the group forced him not to drink any more on the upcoming tour (he would take advantage of it to sink deeper into drugs with heroin, and the whole group plunged into excesses: drugs, alcohols, ...). The band continues on Theatre Of Pain, the album once again raises the pitch of notoriety to the band, a track like Smokein' in the Boys' Room (resumed by Brownsville Station) entering the top 40. The Home Sweet Home ride will make them explode even more, mattrated on MTV this title marks the beginning of the prolific "power balad" that will blow in the second half of the 80's. In 1987, the band, despite growing tensions and dependencies, managed to release its fourth album called Girls, Girls, Girls. The clip of the eponymous title is censored adding another layer to the provocative aura of the group. Motley Crue then went on a world tour that would be stopped following Nikki Sixx's overdose. Management and the band decide to react and the 4 lascars will follow a common detoxification cure, so it is sober that they record their most sold album to date Dr. Feelgood with Bob Rock ( Metallica , Bon Jovi , Skid Row , The Offspring , ...). The band then touches the whole world with its ultra accessible metal oriented MTV at 200%, its fun and training side and its stadium hymns. Apart from a song all the tracks of the album will be released in single, the best known being Don't Go Away Mad, Kickstart My Heart (which talks about the overdose of Nikki Sixx) and Dr. Feelgood. Following a gargantuan world tour and a best of, Decade of Decadence. The band fell back into his demons and went back to the studio for a new album. Tensions broke out and Vince Neil was dismissed to be replaced by John Corabi, ex The Scream . Together they released in 1994 the eponymous album which becomes a golden record but far from the expectations of their record company and their past glory. Vince Neil, for his part, tried a solo career without much success. The band thanked John Corabi and reconciled as well as badly with Vince Neil, they released an album in 1997 called Generation Swine; the sound of the band evolves greatly and has nothing to do with the metal glam of their beginning. The album starts in 4th place in the U.S. charts but as the previous one does not know the success of the past. In 1998 they released a best of, Greatest Hits, but the following tour was shortened as Tommy Lee was imprisoned for mistaking his drums with his wife (Pamela Anderson). Tommy Lee left the band the following year to try to hang up the neo-metal car with Method of Mayhem. He was replaced by Randy Castillo (beater for Ozzy Osbourne). The band's activity is then rather flaibarde, all their discography remastered and a rarity album, Supersonic and Demonic Relics , is born. It was only in 2000 that the group returned to the bins with New Tatoo. In May 2001 The Dirt , a biography of the group in which the members and relatives of the group confide, succeeded the key. Meanwhile Vince Neil takes up the path of clubs with his solo project and Nikki Sixx writes titles for different bands ( Tantric , Meatloaf , ...). In 2002 Randy Castillo died. Shortly after the band announced that he was going to reform with his original line up but Tommy Lee silenced the rumors. The group and Vince Neil (who had been accused of rape by his wife) were facing legal difficulties. Tommy Lee and Vince Neil are involved in TV shows (or reality TV) while Nikki Sixx is releasing an album with his other band Brides of Destruction. Finally in 2004 Motley Crue announced his reformation and went back on tour in 2005 filling the theaters as in the right era. In 2008 the 4 original members returned to the studio for the recording of Saint Of Los Angeles.