Mötley Crüe guitarist Mick Mars is giving up touring because of ill health, the band has announced. The 71-year-old star has been living with a painful spinal condition since he was a teenager.
Mars, real name Robert Alan Deal, co-founded the heavy metal band with bassist Nikki Sixx, lead singer Vince Neil and drummer Tommy Lee in Los Angeles in 1981. They have sold more than 100 million albums worldwide.
He was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, a painful and degenerative disease that affects the spine and other bones and joints, in his late teens. In 2004, he underwent hip replacement surgery.
