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“Mötley Crüe was a whole different animal from what I’m doing. Writing the anthems was what the band was all about. Then it got a little sideways…” Mick Mars opens up on the highs and lows of life in Mötley Crüe – and his solo rebirth

The legendary Crüe guitarist looks back on the good times and bad times with the world’s most outrageous band, how he knew it was time to retire from the road (but not the group), and why his hard-hitting new solo album is and isn’t a blues record

Guitar World

Slayer, Slipknot, Iron Maiden, Mötley Crüe and many more confirmed for massive Aftershock lineup

Organisers are calling Aftershock 2024 "the largest rock and metal festival ever put together in California"

Metal Hammer

“This is like an intro to something Metallica wrote in the 1980s”: 11-year-old guitar hero breaks the internet with his original metal riffs – performed in front of his fellow fifth-graders

Cole Parsons has shot to online stardom with his original, Randy Rhoads-channeling song, which even won the approval of Mötley Crüe

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“I would say it’s past… impossible”: Mick Mars has opened up about his relationship with Mötley Crüe – and a reconciliation is off the table

The band's former guitarist has discussed the ongoing Mars/Mötley Crüe dispute, and it looks like we're passed the point of no return for any potential reunion

Guitar World

A pouting member of Mötley Crüe, a Bon Jovi songwriter and a risque video: Joe Perry looks back on the song that took Aerosmith back to rock's top table

Aerosmith have now enjoyed decades of superstardom, but go back to early 1987 and they were staring down the barrel

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“Just Be Yourself”: 20-Year-Old Woman Lives in The 1980s, And She Couldn’t Be Happier

"Any malls that have a hint of 80s original architecture in it makes me feel like I’ve been transported back in time." The post “Just Be Yourself”: 20-Year-Old Woman Lives in The 1980s, And She Couldn’t Be Happier first appeared on Bored Panda.

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“When 18 and Life played back and I heard Scotti play the first three notes in the solo, I got chills. I called Jon Bon Jovi and said, 'Do you ever get chills listening to your own music?'”: Snake Sabo and Scotti Hill on Skid Row's massive debut album

Skid Row's two-guitar tandem discuss building their own pedals, in-the-works Kramers, and what they learned from each other while recording their star-making, self-titled 1989 debut

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10 heavy metal solo careers that fell completely flat

Not everyone can be Ozzy Osbourne or Ronnie James Dio…

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“I wanted us to be the punk Monkees, the mainstream Ramones or Mötley Crüe with sneakers”: the story of Candy, the cult 80s LA glam rockers who produced a future Guns N’ Roses superstar

With their debut album, Whatever Happened To Fun?, LA power-pop outfit Candy should have been huge

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"As metal staggered to its feet and limped out of the 80s, it was on the cusp of becoming stronger than ever before": How heavy metal got its mojo back

Big hair and bad spandex almost killed any credibility metal had in the 1980s. But metal not only survived, it also came back bigger and stronger than ever

Metal Hammer

“People are hearing my sound – I might gain some fans, I might lose some fans, but what they’re hearing is all me”: Mick Mars reveals second track from his debut solo album

After 40 years of Mötley Crue, the guitarist is exploring different sides of his personality, with Right Side of Wrong showcasing a darker side to the glam rock legend

Guitar World

"The whole vibe of Ace Frehley was really special to me. I was so small, and Ace was this larger-than-life figure… I didn't even think he was a real person": John 5 names the guitarists who shaped his sound

From shred titans to riff-masters to an obscure, blazing country picker he thinks every guitarist should listen to, the Mötley Crüe man names the players who forged his virtuosic, hard-charging sound

Guitar World

"I will go to any lengths to protect my family": Nikki Sixx reveals that his wife and child have been threatened by stalkers

Mötley Crüe man Nikki Sixx has taken to social media to reveal that the FBI are currently investigating one stalker, while another has been to court

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Mötley Crüe’s Vince Neil describes panicked scenes after Oklahoma State Fair shooting

Singer was near to the end of his set when ‘people started running’

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Nikki Sixx, John 5 and the ongoing Mötley Crüe brouhaha – only in the new Guitar World

Plus! Buddy Guy, Nita Strauss, Oingo Boingo, In Flames, Drug Church, Dirty Honey, bluegrass shredders and a new Pink Floyd-style arrangement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

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A beginner’s guide to hair metal in 5 essential albums

Glam metal, hair metal – call it what you want. These are five albums that soundtracked the 1980s

Guitar World

Mick Mars' 10 best Mötley Crüe guitar solos

10 times the hair-metal linchpin elevated the band's hard-rock anthems with lead guitar fury

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ScotRail to put on extra trains and late services for TRNSMT, Mötley Crüe, and Def Leppard crowds

Glasgow is set for a massive few days for music fans with TRNSMT festival returning to Glasgow Green from Friday to Sunday following a show by Mötley Crüe & Def Leppard.

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Motley Crue rock London's tiny Underworld club (and no, there wasn't any miming)

Motley Crue roll back the years with a sweaty and full-throttle show in the most intimate of settings

Louder

Six classic rock bands who "went grunge" and lived to tell the tale

Grunge swept all aside as it barrelled in from Seattle, and some bands preferred to jump the bandwagon rather than stand in the way and get mown down

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"We had to die" - A history of The Grunge Wars, told by those who were there

Three decades ago, GN’R’s Use Your Illusion and Nirvana’s Nevermind were released just two weeks apart, setting two musical cultures against each other. We asked combatants from both sides: who won the war?

Louder

Watch Alice Cooper and his writhing snake lift Billion Dollar Babies to psychotic new heights

More gold from the Midnight Special archive: footage of Alice Cooper performing Billion Dollar Babies in 1979

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Def Leppard and Motley Crue add Australian dates to Stadium Tour

Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard's much-hyped Stadium Tour continues to plot its inexorable path around Planet Earth

Louder

Do you need a great singing voice to be a great rock’n’roll frontman?

Dee Snider created a Twitterstorm by suggesting that Ronnie James Dio was a great singer but not a great performer – and rock history is filled with other examples

Guitar World

Bob Rock clarifies comments about Nikki Sixx’s recordings: “At no time did I ever actually think Nikki didn’t play bass on Mötley Crüe’s records”

The producer says Sixx was being “self-deprecating” at the time he made the reported comments to Rock

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