Mötley Crüe
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Mötley Crüe: Country Club, Reseda CA
Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 29 December 1981
CATCHING MÖTLEY CRÜE IN A FLASH ...
Mötley Crüe: Crüesin' and Blüesin'
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 20 February 1982
"FIRST YOU got to cut it real jaggedy. And you need this stuff." ...
Riot: Restless Breed (Elektra/Asylum); Mötley Crüe: Too Fast for Love (Elektra/Asylum)
Review by Danny (Shredder) Weizmann, L.A. Weekly, 11 November 1982
RIOT LOOK like a more wretched New York Dolls and play powerhouse meatrock, and as meatrock bands go, they are enchanting. The singer yodels in ...
Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, July 1983
Eleganza returns! This one-time fave fab fashion column, as you may know, oozed away slowly in the past few years for "reasons" we don't need ...
Eleganza: Got Pizzazz (If You Want It)
Column by John Mendelsohn, Creem, October 1983
IN THE MONTHS since its resuscitation, several hundred readers have written this column to ask what they should do with their hair. Would that Eleganza ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Creem, February 1984
THE PERFECT WORLD...Little waterfalls tinkle cheerfully down the hillside and rabbits and chipmunks scamper playfully in the long grass of the sun-dappled meadow; bluebirds tweet ...
Van Halen, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy Osbourne et al: Monsters of Rock, Castle, Donington, Leicestershire
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 25 August 1984
I WAS A TEENAGE GRISTLEBURGER! Trampled underfoot: BARNEY HOSKYNS and MAT SNOW. ...
Live Review by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 21 November 1984
A GOOD night for London Transport. The fans had poured off the bus and Tube to this one squeezed into satin pants, war paint, and ...
White Noise: How Heavy Metal Rules
Essay by Deborah Frost, The Village Voice, 18 June 1985
IT'S FRIDAY NIGHT at L'Amour, Rock Capital of Brooklyn (well, that's what it says on the awning). The smell is smoke and damp, black lipstick ...
Mötley Crüe: Theatre Of Pain (Elektra 960 418-1)****
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 6 July 1985
ARTAUD FOR Artaud's sake? Cruelty, pain, speak of sin and you know this is it! No — actually this latest Crüe's ship hasn't hurt me ...
Mötley Crüe: Inglewood Forum, Inglewood CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 26 August 1985
ROCK GROUP RIPE FOR A CRÜE-SADE? ...
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 6 February 1986
SYLVIE SIMMONS travels to Frankfurt in Germany and gets Sixx of the best from gutter-level gürus MÖTLEY CRÜE. ...
Mötley Crüe: Hammersmith Odeon, Odeon
Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 17 February 1986
SINCE FORMING in Los Angeles in 1981, Mötley Crüe have assiduously cultivated a hard-living bad-boy image, diligently indulging in the traditional macho pursuits of drinking, ...
Mötley Crüe, Cheap Trick: Odeon, Birmingham
Live Review by Terry Staunton, New Musical Express, 1 March 1986
CHILLY WILLIES AND THE RED HOT PECKERS ...
Mötley Crüe: Masters of Disaster
Interview by Paul Elliott, Sounds, 1 March 1986
PAUL ELLIOTT confronts MÖTLEY CRÜE, men with a taste for reckless living, sexual weirdness and putting bounties on making it with gummy old grannies. ...
Report and Interview by J. Kordosh, Creem, April 1986
CONSIDER SUITE 619 at the Park Hyatt in Chicago. The floor plants in wicker baskets. The liquor cabinet. The glass coffee table, with fresh flowers ...
Heavy Metal: The Sound Too Dense to Die
Comment by James Hunter, L.A. Weekly, 16 October 1987
TWENTY SUMMERS ago, it was love. In 1987 it was metal, pop-metal, ushered in by Bon Jovi's much less musicianly 7-mil play on Van Halen's ...
Doc McGhee: Top rock manager pleads guilty to drug charges
Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 10 March 1988
Bon Jovi and Mötley Crüe boss tied to international smuggling ring ...
Mötley Crüe: Putt at the Devil
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 9 September 1989
At a Los Angeles Valley golf club MÖTLEY CRÜE singer VINCE NEIL is about to mutter something to his caddy, STEFFAN CHIRAZI... "Steff, dude," he ...
Interview by Steve Mascord, Kerrang!, 11 November 1989
After all the dirt dished out by Mötley Crüe about Moscow, Doc McGhee and the New Jersey Syndicate Jon Bon Jovi has at last decided ...
Mötley Crüe, Skid Row, White Lion: Crüe To Be Kind
Report and Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 18 November 1989
Lock up your heated rollers, here comes Metal mayhem. Into the heart of dorkness strode our very own rock monster EDWIN POUNCEY armed with only ...
Motley Crüe : Moscow Festival – Crüe Still Peace-d off with Bon Jovi
Report and Interview by Steve Mascord, Kerrang!, 13 January 1990
The feud goes on: Nikki Sixx brands JBJ a 'lying asshole' and challenges him to a fist-fight! ...
Mötley Crüe, Faster Pussycat: Oakland Coliseum, California
Live Review by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 10 March 1990
Crüe-sin' for a brüe-sin' ...
Mötley Crüe: Feeling Minnesota
Interview by Steve Mascord, Juke, 28 April 1990
Mötley Crüe might have kicked their drugs but their chase for the Ultimate Thrill remains relentless. ...
Mötley Crüe: Entertainment Centre, Sydney
Live Review by Andrew Mueller, Melody Maker, 26 May 1990
THAT T'CRÜE'S latest single, 'Kickstart My Heart', is from the title down a towering work of dumbo rockin' genius must surely be unarguable. Like Guns ...
Heavy Metal Mania: It's More Than Music
Overview by Deanne Stillman, The New York Times, 12 May 1991
With myriad clubs, fanzines and hair salons, rude dudeness (tattoos included) is a way of life. ...
Live Review by Neil Perry, Melody Maker, 24 August 1991
METAL FATIGUE ...
Mötley Crüe: Decade of Dickheadedness
Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 26 October 1991
Grand old dames of Heavy Metal MÖTLEY CRÜE have just signed a record deal worth a cool £35 million. Not bad for a band that ...
Big Deals: How Money Fever is Changing the Music Business
Report by Fred Goodman, Musician, January 1992
"IN MARCH of 1985 the band was broke. People were selling their houses. The IRS was calling every day." ...
Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Kerrang!, 9 May 1992
When the news broke in February that VINCE NEIL had 'parted ways' with seminal LA rockers MÖTLEY CRÜE, many thought it was a publicity stunt. ...
Report and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Kerrang!, 1996
MOTLEY CRUE go in the studio in November straight from their US club tour to start work on their new album, tentatively titled Personality Number ...
Interview by Ian Fortnam, Kerrang!, November 1999
STUDIO CITY, situated on the outskirts of the sprawling Twentieth Century Babylon that is Los Angeles, is a singularly bizarre locale. In amongst its statuesque ...
Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee Lets It All Hang Out
Interview by Roy Trakin, Grammy Magazine, April 2005
EVEN BEFORE HE agreed to join bandmates Nikki Sixx, Vince Neil and Mick Mars in this year's surprisingly successful Mötley Crüe reunion tour – the ...
Report and Interview by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, May 2005
I HAVE JUST SPENT two weeks on the road with Mötley Crüe. Our sweep through Canada and the US Midwest took in Edmonton, Des Moines, ...
Live Review by Rahul Shrivastava, bbc.co.uk, 21 June 2005
WHAT CAN YOU say about the Crue that hasn't already been said? A singer with a love of fine wine and cosmetic surgery, a drummer ...
Report by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 27 October 2007
Thought Mötley Crüe's biog The Dirt was the ultimate rock read? Pah! Ian Gittins helped bassist Nikki Sixx write his gruesome journals. Those of a ...
Interview by Robin Eggar, Live Magazine, 30 December 2007
NIKKI SIXX is the bassplayer and chief songwriter in Mötley Crüe, the LA hard rockers who became a byword for rock and roll excess, while ...
Mötley Crüe's Mick Mars: "I’ve Always Been About Melody And Tone"
Interview by Steven Rosen, ultimate-guitar.com, 6 September 2008
MICK MARS CAME into this world as Robert Alan Deal. He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, on May 4, 1951. His family relocated to ...
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, June 2009
IF HEAVY METAL is the working man's opera, to paraphrase Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson, then Download is its Glyndebourne. ...
Mötley Crüe: Bounty Or Mutiny?
Interview by Steve Mascord, AOR, November 2011
"I REALLY DON'T understand what Mick's talking about. Maybe he took the wrong pill that day." ...
Tommy Lee: "Back then, there were no consequences – excess was a daily thing"
Retrospective and Interview by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 16 October 2020
IN THE SUMMER of 1987, Mötley Crüe embarked on a tour of the largest indoors venues in North America. Travelling aboard a private jet, the ...
see also Tommy Lee
see also Vince Neil
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