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10 heavy metal solo careers that fell completely flat

Not everyone can be Ozzy Osbourne or Ronnie James Dio…

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“I wanted us to be the punk Monkees, the mainstream Ramones or Mötley Crüe with sneakers”: the story of Candy, the cult 80s LA glam rockers who produced a future Guns N’ Roses superstar

With their debut album, Whatever Happened To Fun?, LA power-pop outfit Candy should have been huge

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"As metal staggered to its feet and limped out of the 80s, it was on the cusp of becoming stronger than ever before": How heavy metal got its mojo back

Big hair and bad spandex almost killed any credibility metal had in the 1980s. But metal not only survived, it also came back bigger and stronger than ever

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“People are hearing my sound – I might gain some fans, I might lose some fans, but what they’re hearing is all me”: Mick Mars reveals second track from his debut solo album

After 40 years of Mötley Crue, the guitarist is exploring different sides of his personality, with Right Side of Wrong showcasing a darker side to the glam rock legend

Guitar World

"The whole vibe of Ace Frehley was really special to me. I was so small, and Ace was this larger-than-life figure… I didn't even think he was a real person": John 5 names the guitarists who shaped his sound

From shred titans to riff-masters to an obscure, blazing country picker he thinks every guitarist should listen to, the Mötley Crüe man names the players who forged his virtuosic, hard-charging sound

Guitar World

"I will go to any lengths to protect my family": Nikki Sixx reveals that his wife and child have been threatened by stalkers

Mötley Crüe man Nikki Sixx has taken to social media to reveal that the FBI are currently investigating one stalker, while another has been to court

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Mötley Crüe’s Vince Neil describes panicked scenes after Oklahoma State Fair shooting

Singer was near to the end of his set when ‘people started running’

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Nikki Sixx, John 5 and the ongoing Mötley Crüe brouhaha – only in the new Guitar World

Plus! Buddy Guy, Nita Strauss, Oingo Boingo, In Flames, Drug Church, Dirty Honey, bluegrass shredders and a new Pink Floyd-style arrangement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

Guitar World

A beginner’s guide to hair metal in 5 essential albums

Glam metal, hair metal – call it what you want. These are five albums that soundtracked the 1980s

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Mick Mars' 10 best Mötley Crüe guitar solos

10 times the hair-metal linchpin elevated the band's hard-rock anthems with lead guitar fury

Guitar World

ScotRail to put on extra trains and late services for TRNSMT, Mötley Crüe, and Def Leppard crowds

Glasgow is set for a massive few days for music fans with TRNSMT festival returning to Glasgow Green from Friday to Sunday following a show by Mötley Crüe & Def Leppard.

Glasgow Live

Motley Crue rock London's tiny Underworld club (and no, there wasn't any miming)

Motley Crue roll back the years with a sweaty and full-throttle show in the most intimate of settings

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Six classic rock bands who "went grunge" and lived to tell the tale

Grunge swept all aside as it barrelled in from Seattle, and some bands preferred to jump the bandwagon rather than stand in the way and get mown down

Louder

"We had to die" - A history of The Grunge Wars, told by those who were there

Three decades ago, GN’R’s Use Your Illusion and Nirvana’s Nevermind were released just two weeks apart, setting two musical cultures against each other. We asked combatants from both sides: who won the war?

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Louder

Watch Alice Cooper and his writhing snake lift Billion Dollar Babies to psychotic new heights

More gold from the Midnight Special archive: footage of Alice Cooper performing Billion Dollar Babies in 1979

Louder

Def Leppard and Motley Crue add Australian dates to Stadium Tour

Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard's much-hyped Stadium Tour continues to plot its inexorable path around Planet Earth

Louder

Do you need a great singing voice to be a great rock’n’roll frontman?

Dee Snider created a Twitterstorm by suggesting that Ronnie James Dio was a great singer but not a great performer – and rock history is filled with other examples

Guitar World

Bob Rock clarifies comments about Nikki Sixx’s recordings: “At no time did I ever actually think Nikki didn’t play bass on Mötley Crüe’s records”

The producer says Sixx was being “self-deprecating” at the time he made the reported comments to Rock

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The Guardian - UK

‘We’re a new age travelling circus’: the duo who took Britney Spears to the Yorkshire seaside

From Lionel Richie saying hello to Lytham to Kylie doing The Locomotion on a train in Scarborough, promoters Cuffe and Taylor have managed to lure a host of big names to provincial towns around the UK. What’s their secret?

Daily Mirror

Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe review - dripping in nostalgia that somehow still works

Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe took to Sheffield's Bramall Lane last night to mark the start of their European tour and was filled with as much 80s rock nostalgia as you would expect

The Guardian - UK

Def Leppard & Mötley Crüe review – from the pathetic to the sublime

On this co-headline tour, Mötley Crüe are crass and limp, and then shown up all the more by the triumphant power of Def Leppard’s homecoming

Louder

Rick Allen has spoken publicly for the first time about being attacked in Florida

The Def Leppard drummer has opened up about the violent attack outside a hotel in Fort Lauderdale: "I wasn’t a threat because I’ve only got one arm"

Guitar World

Here’s what Mick Mars texted John 5 after he joined Mötley Crüe

The Rob Zombie virtuoso was recruited late last year to replace Mars, who reached out to him after his appointment was made official

Guitar World

Nikki Sixx alleges Mick Mars is “a little bit confused and being misled by representatives”

The Mötley Crüe bassist has discussed Mars’s recent lawsuit, as well as his friendship with new guitarist John 5

USA Today Sports Media Group

NFL announces headliners for 2023 NFL draft concert series in Kansas City

Fall Out Boy, Mötley Crüe and Thundercat will headline the 2023 NFL draft concert series in Kansas City from April 27th through April 29th. | from @TheJohnDillon

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