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MÖTLEY CRÜE Regroups For NASCAR Cup Race: Photos, Video

All four members of MÖTLEY CRÜE attended yesterday's (Sunday, March 17) NASCAR race at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. Named grand marshals of the race, they gave the famous command "Drivers, Start Your Engines" prior to the start of the Auto Club 400. Joining the band were actors Douglas...

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MICK MARS Says His Upcoming Solo Album Will Be 'A Bit Harder' Than MÖTLEY CRÜE

MÖTLEY CRÜE guitarist Mick Mars has confirmed to "Talking Metal" that he is still working on his much-anticipated solo album. "I've been working on this for years, trying to get it right in my way of thinking," he said in a brand-new interview (hear audio below). "I just don't want to put out a reco...

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Listen To MÖTLEY CRÜE's Cover Of MADONNA's 'Like A Virgin'

MÖTLEY CRÜE's cover version of Madonna's "Like A Virgin" can be streamed below. The track appears on "The Dirt Soundtrack" that accompanies the upcoming Netflix film "The Dirt", based on The New York Times best-selling 2001 autobiography by CRÜE and Neil Strauss. MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx told...

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MÖTLEY CRÜE Film 'The Dirt' Celebrated During SiriusXM's 'Motley Crüe Week'

SiriusXM has announced that legendary rock band MÖTLEY CRÜE will host an exclusive special, "Mötley Crüe Week", in advance of the band's new biopic, "The Dirt". SiriusXM's Hair Nation channel 39 will become "Mötley Crüe Week" March 18 - 24. The channel takeover will feature music spanning MÖTLEY C...

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MÖTLEY CRÜE's NIKKI SIXX: 'I Spent More Money On Therapy Than Most Rock Stars Spent On Cars'

During a recent interview with SiriusXM's Larry Flick, MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx, who had a near-fatal overdose in 1987, was asked why he thinks he was "spared" from dying when so many others did not live to see another day. "I do the New Year's resolution-type list thing, and one is called 'pu...

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MACHINE GUN KELLY On Playing TOMMY LEE In 'The Dirt': 'It Never Seemed Like He Was Tainted By The Ugliness Around Him'

Rapper Machine Gun Kelly (real name: Colson Baker) spoke to USA Today about playing MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee in the film adaptation of the group's biography, "The Dirt - Confessions Of The World's Most Notorious Rock Band". "The Dirt", which will premiere on March 22, was helmed by "Jackass Pre...

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NIKKI SIXX Says MÖTLEY CRÜE's 'Anger' At KISS And TRAVIS SCOTT Was 'Misdirected'

Nikki Sixx says that he has "no problems" with KISS, less than a month after he called out the make-up-wearing rockers' "End Of The Road" farewell tour for allegedly ripping off production elements from MÖTLEY CRÜE's final trek. On February 17, Sixx posted a side-by-side photo comparison of him bein...

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MÖTLEY CRÜE's VINCE NEIL: 'Just Because We Stopped Touring Doesn't Mean We Broke Up'

Vince Neil says that MÖTLEY CRÜE is very much an active entity despite the fact that the band completed its final tour more than three years ago. "Just because we stopped touring doesn't mean we broke up," he told Finland's Kaaos TV in a new interview (hear audio below). "We just decided not to tour...

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NIKKI SIXX Says MÖTLEY CRÜE's 'The Dirt' Movie Is A 'Cautionary Tale'

MÖTLEY CRÜE and SIXX:A.M. bassist Nikki Sixx recently appeared on Virgin Radio UK's "Chris Evans Breakfast Show". The complete conversation can be streamed at this location (interview starts at the 4:40 mark). A few excepts follow (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the debauchery captured in t...

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NIKKI SIXX Says MÖTLEY CRÜE's 'Live Wire' Is About Domestic Violence

While making the press rounds for MÖTLEY CRÜE's Netflix biopic "The Dirt", bassist Nikki Sixx talked about the lyrical inspiration for some of the band's earliest songs. "One thing that's important to me, and our fans know it, but people that don't know MOTLEY CRUE [may not], is we're very transpar...

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NIKKI SIXX Says He Doesn't Recall Rape Story In MÖTLEY CRÜE's 'The Dirt' Book: 'It's Possibly Greatly Embellished'

MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx has apologized for a story in the band's 2001 memoir "The Dirt" in which he describes a scene where he may have participated in a sexual assault during a party. In one of the book's most controversial tales, Sixx said he "pretty much" raped an intoxicated woman after h...

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NIKKI SIXX Wants People To Understand That 'Music Was The Main Driver' For MÖTLEY CRÜE

Nikki Sixx says that he hopes people will realize that "music was the main driver" for MÖTLEY CRÜE after watching the upcoming film adaptation of the band's biography, "The Dirt - Confessions Of The World's Most Notorious Rock Band". "The Dirt" will premiere on March 22. It was picked up by Netflix...

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MÖTLEY CRÜE Partners With GLOBAL MERCHANDISING SERVICES And EPIC RIGHTS For Worldwide Merchandise Program

MÖTLEY CRÜE has partnered with Global Merchandising Services and Epic Rights to develop and launch retail, licensing, and ecommerce programs for the iconic rock band. The announcement was jointly made today by Barry Drinkwater, group executive chairman of Global Merchandising and Dell Furano, CEO of...

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NIKKI SIXX Hopes His 'Heroin Diaries' Musical Will Do For Opiate Epidemic What 'Rent' Did For AIDS And HIV

MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx spoke to U.K.'s BUILD Series about the long-awaited Broadway adaptation of his memoir, "The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star". "The Heroin Diaries", which was supposedly taken from actual journals Sixx kept in the late '80s while in the grip...

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NIKKI SIXX On Possibility Of Permanent MÖTLEY CRÜE Reunion: 'We Haven't Had That Talk'

MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx says that he had a great time reconnecting with his bandmates to record four new songs for the film adaptation of the group's biography, "The Dirt - Confessions Of The World's Most Notorious Rock Band". "There's that saying, 'It's like riding a bicycle,'" he told USA T...