Here are some more random Motley pin-ups and images from my childhood collection. Check out the wear and tear on a few of these, ha ha. In the 1980s, Motley Crue pictures from magazines would sometimes pass into several hands before they found a home in fans like me or, more often, thrown in the garbage! Here's Pin-Ups Part 1
I really started collecting more Motley stuff around 1987 when Girls, Girls,Girls came out. It seemed the Crue were ever so much more mainstream and were getting tonnes of press. A lot of Circus articles came out in those years and always featured live photos of the band. This was as close as most of us got to seeing the Crue live back in those days.
Since the 21st century, the Girls, Girls, Girls era has become the most notorious of the band's career. The album was released in May and the band toured until December. They had Whitesnake and Guns n' Roses as openers. Nikki would famously overdose and die, briefly, in December and the tour was cancelled. The videos for the three singles were iconic and controversial and Motley met the burgeoning PC culture with attitude and tongue-in-cheek humour.
Of course there were many other publications offering up many live shots of the Girls stage show. Tommy Lee’s drum solo was a thing of legend. I loved the cheap look of the big, red plain stage they used.
Here’s video of the band playing in Wilkes-Barre, PA on the Girls tour, opening the show with one of my Crue favs, "All In the Name of Rock n’ Roll."
