Motley Crue

the band released their debut album, “Too Fast for Love.” The record included songs such as “Live Wire,” and “Merry-Go-Round,” and sold an impressive 20,000 copies. Elektra Records took notice and signed the band the next year. Elektra reissued the album on August 20th 1982 and it eventually sold more than 1 million copies. Motley Crue hit the road with their “Cruesing Through Canada Tour ’82.” The tour was not financially successful, but due to numerous publicized incidents, such as Tommy Lee tossing a television set out of a hotel window, the band gained that “Rock Star” image that helped build some much needed hype...Read More

The band that would later become known as Motley Crue, officially formed on January 17th, 1981 in Los Angeles when drummer Tommy Lee and bassist Nikki Sixx started playing together. Guitarist Bob “Mick Mars” Deal soon joined Sixx and Lee, but this still left the group without a singer. After having seen vocalist Vince Neil perform with an other band, Mars suggest they recruit him. Lee had known Neil from high school, and with persistence, convinced him to join. The guys went about recording and releasing the single “Stick to Your Guns/Toast of the Town,” by forming their own record label, Leathur Records. On November 10th, 1981,