Motley Magazine Miscellany #1


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After you’d shred up your 1980s magazines, taking out the Crue stuff and maybe trading or giving away articles and pics of other bands to buddies, you’d have all this leftover stuff. You might have a mention of Crue in a news section or a Crue pic in the magazine title page/table of contents like above. Some of this stuff was cut out and became scrapbook fodder but I kept a bunch of other pages that contained Crue content and they really show the band in the context of the magazine and hard rock scene of the ‘80s-early ’90s. 

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Some more vintage magazine table of contents. That’s a pic of Nikki with Jon Bon Jovi in a chokehold, above, and at the top right a cool little pic of Nikki throwing a towel into the audience during a Girls, Girls, Girls performance in 1987. These are all from 1986-1992.

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. . . a few news items about Motley’s onstage guests during the Dr. Feelgood tour & a visit to a Planet Hollywood . . . 

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. . . the social and recreational Crue . . . 

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. . . Metal Edge’s Gerri Miller asked rockers ‘What was the strangest gift you’ve ever received?’ and you have to check out the second image to read Nikki’s one word, hilarious answer . . .

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. . . Here are two incomplete articles from Blast! Magazine devoted to fan letters about censorship be it from their parents or the PMRC. Nikki is mentioned in one of the letters & check out the Motley logo X’d out in the border graphics. The Crue were obviously prime targets for censorship in the 1980s . . . 

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. . . Vince reminisces about school, Motley are discussed in ‘Hard Rock Heroes’ (with Shout era photo of Vince and Nikki) and a couple DOD era photos with mention of the work on the 6th studio album that never saw the light of day . . . 

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. . . ‘Looks That Kill’ is voted third best song in some magazine’s poll and Shout At the Devil is voted 25th in a Circus poll of most important or best Hard Rock/Metal albums . . .  

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More Motley Magazine Miscellany to come at the Sleaze Patrol Files . . .

Tommy Lee Part 2 - "Hats Off To Heather"


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Motley Crue's 1989 masterpiece DR. FEELGOOD was possibly the most anticipated Hard Rock album of the 1980s. As early as 1988 the band started teasing information and we learned about the switch from stalwart and consistent producer, Tom Werman, to Canadian Bob Rock. Nikki and Tommy emerged with sleeves of tattoos and shocked many of their long-time fans.

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In 1989 the band did many interviews detailing their new drug and alcohol-free lives as well as the writing and recording of their fifth album. BLAST! Magazine was a goldmine of Crue interviews and top quality studio/posed pinups and centerfolds in the months leading up to the release. BLAST! writers wrote many an article based on extensive interviews with all the members. I bought many of these and am happy to feature them here at the Sleaze Patrol Files.

Judy Wieder gets her turn with Tommy in Vancouver. In "Hats Off To Heather!" Tommy talks about his sober relationship with Heather Locklear and his wariness in having children while he’s still rockin’ at 26 years of age.

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