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The other members were not very receptive to that idea. Then, while trying to find a suitable name, Mars remembered an incident that occurred when he was playing with a band called White Horse, when one of the other band members called the group "a motley looking crew". He had remembered the phrase and later copied it down as 'Mottley Cru'.
Vincent Neil Wharton (born February 8, 1961) [1] is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist of heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, which he fronted from their 1981 formation until his departure in 1992.
Nikki Sixx (born Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna Jr.; [1] [2] December 11, 1958) is an American musician, best known as the co-founder, bassist, and primary songwriter of the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, being the only member to remain throughout their entire history. [1]
John William Lowery (born July 31, 1970), [3] known by the stage name John 5, is an American guitarist.Lowery first took the stage name in 1998 when he left David Lee Roth's solo band and joined Marilyn Manson.
Crüe members can purchase tickets for all upcoming Mötley Crüe shows on sites like Vivid Seats; the official on-sale for the Las Vegas residency concerts is Friday, Oct. 11.
Lee was born Thomas Lee Bass on October 3, 1962, in Athens, Greece, to father David Lee Thomas Bass, an American U.S. Army sergeant, and mother Vassiliki "Voula" Papadimitriou (Greek: Βασιλική Παπαδημητρίου), a contestant on the 1957 Miss Greece beauty contest.
In the early days of White Horse, someone had referred to the band as a "motley looking crew" and Motley Crew was a name they had initially considered using. Sixx liked the name and subsequently altered it to Mötley Crüe. [7] One of the most influential heavy metal groups of the 1980s, Mötley Crüe has sold over 100 million albums worldwide.
At the age of sixteen, she auditioned for the post-hardcore band Shift as a replacement drummer and the band gave her the position permanently. [ 1 ] While playing in Shift, Maloney excelled on her school's basketball team, and in 1993, had to decide whether or not to pursue a serious basketball career with college scholarship offers [ 2 ] or ...