In this installment of Motley Magazine Miscellany we have more random Crue appearances in print media of the 1980s-90s. Our first images come from a kid's book of celebrities entitled 'Good Guys & Bad Guys'. This was one of those cheapo, thrown-together publications that were sold in those Scholastic book order catalogues we'd get in Canadian grade school (I don't know if this is common to all Western school systems). The Motley member featured is Tommy Lee (whose famous wife was the main reason a mainstream audience even knew who he was) although you might not know that from the pic they used of Tommy for the cover: a pic of Nikki! And from an, even then, old Too Fast For Love era photo:
a different shot but same session
I don't have the rest of the book (I just tore out the Tommy pages!) but
it's obvious from the opening paragraph of the Tommy bio that the
intent of the book is a moral one, to show famous people who are either good guys or
have become one, as is the case with Tommy. Privy to the sleazy rep
Motley had even in the early 1990s, the writer says that because of
Tommy's 'def' drumming (there's a word you don't hear too much anymore!)
he has kept a host of fans who would have otherwise left the decadent
rocker. Motley's bad guy reputation is lamented but with the sober
lifestyle the band adopted in 1989, fame & artistic success were
theirs. You gotta give this little write up a look-see:
This next little artifact I got out of a sister's Cosmo er something
equivalent. This would be from the early to mid 1990s, we see the actors
from the TV Show 90210 in the other panels. In this
relationship/Music quiz, Motley fares out poorly. The question is, 'Your
boyfriend listen to Motley Crue so You listen too?' Ha ha, 95% of the
women polled said NO WAY!
The tragic history of one Mr. Vincent Neil Wharton has been the source of much spilt ink & it's one of the details of Motley's history that reached the attention of the popular public. A big pic of Vinnie making a gun shot gesture & details of the accident where he is painted as a stone cold killer come from an article called 'Stars Who Get Away With MURDER' from some sleazy pulp rag (likely The National-Enquirer). I remember ripping this out of a magazine at the dentist's office!
Another Motley tabloid article but this time about the romantic troubles of Tommy Lee. This story is from a 1988 edition of The National-Enquirer (or just 'the Enquirer'). There may be some truth to this tale of adultery, the authors even sign their name to the piece. Enlarge the image to read the lurid details of Motley's basher's Celebrity Marriage Foibles!
Here's an ad for a contest to see Motley, Phil Collins & Madonna at Toronto's then new Skydome (now the Rogers Center & home to the MLB's TO Blue Jays).
