MOTLEY CRUE frontman VINCE NEIL has cancelled his European tour just a day before the shows were due to kick off.The rocker was due to kick off his solo trek on Wednesday (03Dec08) with a gig in Barcelona, Spain.But the concert was scrapped at the last minute, along with two other Spanish dates, reportedly due to a combination of low ticket sales and the recent closure of La Riviera venue in Madrid, where Neil was scheduled to perform on 16 December (08), according to Blabbermouth.net.The sta... Read Full Story

`Rock Band` went on sale last November, and now has more than 80 tracks available for download in addition to the 58 tracks in the original.In a nod to the ascendancy of video games, rock 'n' roll bad boys Motley Crue will become the first group to release a new single through Rock Band, said the developer of the wildly popular game."Saints of Los Angeles," the first single from the group's upcoming album, will be available for download for 99 cents beginning Tuesday via... Read Full Story

Nikki Sixx at the 2008 American Music Awards, Nokia Theatre, Los Angeles, CA. (Photo Agency)more pics »Nikki Sixx (born Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna, Jr. December 11, 1958 in San Jose, California) is an American bassist, author, photographer, and the main songwriter for the rock band Mötley Crüe. He has also played bass for glam metal band London, the experimental band 58, the hard rock band Brides of Destruction, and SixxA.M.Sixx was born Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna on D... Read Full Story

Mick Mars (born Robert Alan Deal,[1] May 4, 1951,[2] in Terre Haute, Indiana[1]) is the lead guitarist for heavy metal/glam metal band Mötley Crüe.After his family relocated from Indiana to California, Deal dropped out of high school and began playing guitar in a series of unsuccessful blues based rock bands throughout the seventies, taking on menial day jobs to make ends meet. After nearly a decade of frustration with the California music scene, the 30 year-old Deal reinvented himself, chang... Read Full Story

Tommy Lee (born Thomas Lee Bass; October 3, 1962) is an American musician. He is known as the drummer for heavy metal band Mötley Crüe and ex husband of actress Pamela Anderson.Lee was born in Athens, Greece. His mother, Vassiliki "Voula" Papadimitriou, was Miss Greece in 1957, and his father, David Lee Thomas Bass, was a US Army serviceman of Welsh descent.[1] He has one younger sister, Athena Kottak (b. 1964), who is currently the drummer of Kottak. His family moved to California ... Read Full Story

Vincent Neil Wharton (born February 8, 1961) is the lead singer for American glam metal band Mötley Crüe.Neil was born in Hollywood, California to Odie and Shirley Wharton. During the 1960s, his family moved around Southern California from Inglewood to Watts, before finally settling in Compton. Growing up in Compton was sometimes tough; Neil once had his face slashed by a gang member. Neil eventually got in trouble at school for fighting and drug use, and he was subsequently expelled. As well... Read Full Story

Mötley Crüe's loud, irreverent, and hard-driving heavy metal music has drawn sneers from rock critics and nothing short of adulation from millions of teenaged fans. The songs, both in sound and substance, are precisely calculated to echo the aggressions and sexual fantasies of alienated younger Americans—and are just as precisely calculated to disturb parents and other adult authority figures. The members of Motley Crue do more than just preach a musical ethic of parties, fast women, and ... Read Full Story

The poster boys for Eighties hair metal, Mötley Crüe parlayed whip-lash hard-rock songs, melodic power ballads and a hedonistic image into platinum-level heavy-metal superstardom, topping the charts with Dr. Feelgood (Number One, 1989) and coming close with Theatre of Pain (Number Six, 1985), Girls, Girls Girls (Number Two, 1987) and a greatest-hits collection, Decade of Decadence — '81-'91 (Number 2, 1991).Nikki Sixx was a member of a successful L.A. metal band called London when he ... Read Full Story

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