Biography
Over the years of existence, the American group Mötley Crüe managed to cover many musical directions, including Hard Rock, Hevi and Glam Metal and record 9 studio albums published from 1981 to 2008.Having received a dozen platinum and multiplatin certificates and the first lines of Billboard charts, the musicians became a new style of stage performances using pyrotechnics and complex mechanical and electronic installations.
After the period of the clutch, who dusted for several years, in 2019 the group resumed a creative career and recorded songs to the biographic drama Jeff Trayman "The Dirt", released in Hollywood and at the Netflix entertainment service.
The history of creation and composition
The history of the Mötley CRÜE group began in the winter of 1981, when former colleagues on the team Suite 19 Drummer Tommy Lee and Guitarist and Singer Greg Leon united with Basist Nikki Six, who played in the London Hevi-Metallic Project.
Embed from getty imagesThe educated trio was not perfect, and after several rehearsals, the guys decided to rebuild the composition and hire new participants. On the announcement posted in the Edition of The Recycler, the team found Bob Domila, known under the scenic pseudonym Mick Mars, and then after a long persuade of the musicians, vocalist Vinnes Neil, who spoke in the popular Hollywood team Rock Candy.
Embed from getty imagesAt the next stage of the formation of the creative biography of Nikki Six, who wanted to make the group look like a mixture of David Bowie, Sex Pistols and Black Sabbath, engaged in writing the history of the name and offered colleagues the Christmas option. But this idea did not like other participants who thought that they were more like the "dead team", and in the end with the mild hand of the author of this phrase Mika Mars the team received the original name Mottley Cru.
Embed from getty imagesLater, by analogy with a label of the German variety of beer Löwenbräu, the musicians added to Writing the diacritical signs of the Schalauta, placed above the letters "O" and "U". Soon after, the group met with the producer of Allan Coffman, who in his youth was another relative of the solo guitarist, and Leathür Records released on a little-known Liebel with the first original compositions.
Embed from getty imagesUnder the distribution contract concluded with Greenworld Distribution, the record "Stick to Your Guns / Toast of The Town" appeared on the territory of the California city Torrance and led to a concert at the Starwood nightclub, which caused the appearance of the Debut Album "To Fast for Love".
From this point on, the musicians were in the Zenith of Glory and, despite periodic conflicts, managed to preserve the stable composition. Exceptions were periods from 1992 to 1996, when the responsibilities of the vocalist performed a member of Angora John Coast, and from 1999 to 2004, when the drummer's place occupied Randy Castillo and Samanta Maloni.
Music
The first performances on the club scene of Los Angeles and the TOO Fast for Love plate were unknown with no well-known novice group and provided a contract with Elektra Records Studio, in 1982 overwriting a debut album.Embed from getty imagesWith the modified order of the compositions and a new cover, decorated with a red team logo, this work got into the middle of the American Chart Billboard 200 and received good reviews of musical critics. For an additional portion of popularity, Mötley Crüe went on tour to Canada and, thanks to slyly thought-out PR strokes, became the subject of attention of foreign TV channels and a printed press.
It all started with the fact that the customs control at the International Airport, Edmonton Visa Nile detained with a bag full of prohibited to import erotic journals, and then an announcement of the mining of the hall, where the group had to give the first concert. To top it off, Tommy Lee threw a tube TV from the window of the hotel, and the group was expelled from the city, forever forbidden to give concerts there.
The musicians became famous for these scandalous events returned to their homeland and performed on the day of Hevi-Metal at the prestigious event of the US Festival, and then performed their own program on heating from the great and terrible Ozzy Osborne, who was in 1983 in a full-scale world tour.
It was then that they developed a unique style characterized by the abuse of alcohol and drugs, outrageous backstage behavior, causing clothes and eccentric boots in high heels.
Albums "Shout At The Devil", "Theater of Pain" and "Girls, Girls, Girls", recorded from 1983 to 1985, acquired mad popularity among rockers and fell to high places in the Billboard charts. Ballads "TOO YOUNG TO FALL IN LOVE", "WILD SIDE" and HOME SWEET HOME, written after an accident with Visa Nile, which was killed by the Finnish team of the 'Hanoi' Rocks of Nicholas Dingli, and accompanied by video clips, Faced on MTV and other music channels.
According to critics, this death laid the beginning of a new creative phase of the team's development, which was departed from the genre of Hevi-Metal and began to compose music close to the direction of Glam Rock. However, the change of style did not affect the lifestyle of the musicians who continued to fall into trouble and use drugs and alcohol.
In 1987, Nikki Six slightly died of an overdose of heroin and only thanks to the imminent response of an ambulance, formerly a fan of bass player, a miracle saved from the fatal outcome. Later this event inspired a group on writing a song "Kickstart My Heart", which reached the 16th place in Mainstream US Chart and entered the fifth studio album called "Dr. Feelgood.
In the process of working on a plate, held at the studio Little Mountain Sound in Canada, the musicians constantly conflicted with each other under the action of alcohol and, according to Producer Bob Roca, were American doses, ready to kill each other instantly.
For this reason, a voice party, shock installation and guitars sounding in the songs "Slice of Your Pie", "Without You", "Same Old SiTuation" and "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)" The back-vocals of Stephen Tyler, unsurpassed frontman of the Aerosmith team, were recorded separately, and for the production of the song "Sticky Sweet".
This approach provided a record enthusiastic reviews of musical publications that noted that new hits have energy and dance elements that can immerse the listener into the world of bright and carefree entertainment party. Charter's compilers also highly appreciated the new brainchild Mötley Crüe, placing it on the 1st place Billboard 200 and securing sales that pulled onto a gold and platinum certificate.
In the late 1980s - early 1990s, disagreements were intensified in the group related to the activities of the producer, who organized the famous rock festival in Moscow. Without his participation, Six and the company released a collection of hits "Decade of Decadence 81-91", dedicated to fans, and started replenishing the discography with the Mötley CRÜE album.
The record recorded without the participation of Vince Nile, in 1994 he entered the top ten "billboard", but failed in terms of sales. Because of this, the new member of John Coast was disappointed in his own abilities and immediately after the release took a self-deduction.
Mötley Crüe was on the verge of decay, but withstood this difficult period and in 1997, settling disagreements with the coolest participant in the initial composition, released the Seventh Studio Album "Generation Swine". The success of the work was reflected in the critical publications, and the tracks "Afraid", "Beauty", "Shout at the Devil '97" and "Rocketship" were executed at the american Music Awards ceremony. But commercial success did not follow again, and the musicians decided to independently control the spread of future work.
In subsequent years, Mötley CRÜE acquired its own release studio, which reprinted previous plates and participated in the production of new works "New Tattoo", "Red, White & Crüe" and "Saints of Los Angeles".
From 2002 to 2004, in connection with the occupation of other projects, the participants of the group did not work together and officially announced that they went for a break. But at the request of promoters and numerous fans, the vacation was interrupted with the release of the tracks "If I Die Tomorrow", "Sick Love Song" and tours in the company of the famous Aerosmith.
In 2008, the musicians released the album "Saints of Los Angeles" nominated for the Grammy Award and recognized as the best in the ITunes survey, and then became the organizers and chadliners of the CRÜE Fest 2 tour, held from July to September in the United States of America.
These concerts smoothly continued with the next European and world tour, after which Nikki Six announced the completion of the creative career, and the latest speeches, among whom were in Russia, Mötley Crüe was given in 2015.
MÖTLEY CRÜE now
At the end of the final tour of Nikki Six began to give an interview in which the possibility of creating new compositions based on the remaining draft material. And now some of them entered the biographical feature film directed by Jeff Tremena "The Dirt" ("Dirt").
Embed from getty imagesIn 2019, this film based on the Book "Dirt: Recognition of the most infamous rock band in the world, written by the team members, was denied and issued at the Netflix American film service. Then a CD with a soundtracom appeared on sale, containing a photo of the 1990 sample and composition "Ride with the Devil" and "Crash and Burn".
Discography
- 1981 - "TOO Fast for Love"
- 1983 - "Shout At The Devil"
- 1985 - "Theatre of Pain"
- 1987 - "Girls, Girls, Girls"
- 1989 - "Dr. Feelgood "
- 1994 - "Mötley CRÜE"
- 1997 - "Generation SWINE"
- 2000 - "New Tattoo"
- 2008 - "Saints of Los Angeles"
Clips
- "WHITE TRASH CIRCUS"
- "DON'T GO AWAY MAD"
- Kickstart My Heart
- "HOOLIGAN'S HOLIDAY"
- "TOO YOUNG TO FALL IN LOVE"
- "LIVE WIRE"
- "Motherfucker of the Year"
- "Dr. Feelgood »
- "Girls, Girls, Girls"
- "Misunderstood"
- "LOOKS THAT KILL"