Mötley Crüe keeps announcing new dates for their monster summer tour with Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett. Fans are in for a wild ride as four of the biggest hard rock acts of the 80s and beyond get set take over stadiums everywhere.
Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee and Mick Mars are known for putting on explosive shows and they've been doing so ever since they formed in Los Angeles. From their first gigs at legendary Sunset Strip haunts like the Whisky and the Roxy, to playing in front of thousands of people in venues across the globe, Mötley Crüe can always be counted on to give fans their money's worth.
The band first took the stage together on April 24, 1981 at the Starwood in West Hollywood.
"I remember walking down the stairs onto the stage and hardly knowing Tommy and Vince and Mick," Sixx told LA Weekly in 2015. "But at the same time feeling like I'd known them my whole life. Breaking into that first song, I remember just feeling at home."
Mötley Crüe packed that night's set with songs that would appear on their debut album by the end of the year, and they still played some of those like "Too Fast for Love" on what was expected to be their final tour in 2015.
So what can we expect next summer? Here's a look at the songs Mötley Crüe has played live the most during their career, according to setlist.fm.
10. DON'T GO AWAY MAD (JUST GO AWAY) - 960 TIMES
From 1989's Dr. Feelgood - the band's first and only album to go to #1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 - Vince Neil has said he loves to play guitar on the song and sing it live.
9. SAME OL' SITUATION (S.O.S.) - 1047 TIMES
From 1989's Dr. Feelgood, it was the fifth and final single released from the LP and included a video that was dedicated to fans.
7. DR. FEELGOOD - 1093 TIMES
The title track from the 1989 album reintroduced Motley Crue to the world as a sober, tighter band and was inspired by the dealers they had known all too well.
7. KICKSTART MY HEART - 1093 TIMES
From 1989's Dr. Feelgood, it's the high octane song that everyone knows, even if they're not necessary Motley Crue fans. Nikki Sixx has said he never intended to bring the song to the band, but their former manager convinced him otherwise.
6. GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS - 1130 TIMES
The title track from their 1987 album, the song was a tribute to the women who worked at the band's second homes around the world - strip clubs.
5. WILD SIDE - 1146 TIMES
From 1987's Girls, Girls, Girls, the song takes listeners into the seedier side of Los Angeles and was written by Sixx during the depths of his heroin addiction.
4. HOME SWEET HOME - 1180 TIMES
From 1985's Theatre of Pain, the track features a piano intro and outro by Tommy Lee. The success of the power ballad inspired other Sunset Strip bands to slow things down at least once per album from that moment forward.
3. LOOKS THAT KILL - 1231 TIMES
From 1983's Shout at the Devil, the song features a post-apocalyptic video that was meticulously recreated in their 2019 biopic The Dirt. Check out some side by side comparisons in the new video above.
2. LIVE WIRE - 1335 TIMES
From their 1981 debut Too Fast for Love, it's Motley Crue at their rawest and most fierce. Sixx has said the song was about domestic violence.
1. SHOUT AT THE DEVIL - 1369 TIMES
The title track from their 1983 album confused parents everywhere, and that might have been the plan, according to Sixx. "It has always been a song about pushing back," he told EW in 2015. "It can be about the perceived enemy at hand, the devil inside, or someone on a wobbly campaign trail."
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