Mötley Crüe fashioned in Los Angeles in 1981 and have become one of the common of the so-called hair-metal bands. Mixing glam-rock theatrics, heavy metallic riffs and radio-friendly pop hooks, they had been fixtures on MTV within the Nineteen Eighties and, by that decade’s finish, had topped the Billboard 200 chart with their 1989 album, “Dr. Feelgood.” The band’s tell-all memoir, “The Grime,” which chronicled their rise to fame and rocky historical past, was tailored right into a Netflix biopic in 2019.
Mars, 71, whose real name is Robert Alan Deal, joined Mötley Crüe shortly after it was based and, in line with the lawsuit, got here up with the band’s identify. He was recognized at 27 with ankylosing spondylitis, an inflammatory illness that may trigger the vertebrae to fuse over time. The illness has brought on his backbone “to grab up and freeze utterly strong,” the go well with says, including that he’s in continual ache and isn’t capable of transfer his head in any course.
Final fall, Mars advised his bandmates that, due to his “debilitating” ankylosing spondylitis, he couldn’t bodily “deal with the pains of the street” and would not tour with the band, the go well with says. Mars, who final carried out with Mötley Crüe in Las Vegas on Sept. 9, 2022, mentioned he would nonetheless file and carry out with the band in a “residency state of affairs.”
After Mars publicly introduced the change on Oct. 26, the band issued a separate assertion saying that he had “retired” and {that a} guitarist named John 5 was changing him.
The opposite band members — Nikki Sixx, Vince Neil and Tommy Lee — known as the emergency shareholders’ assembly, the place they sought to fireplace Mars from seven band-affiliated companies and limited-liability companies, the lawsuit says. These entities — Mötley Crüe Inc.; Mötley Crüe Touring Inc.; Pink, White and Crue Inc.; Masters 2000 Inc.; Cruefest LLC; Mötley Data LLC; and Masters 2008 LLC — are listed as defendants within the lawsuit, which calls for that Mars be allowed to evaluate the band’s enterprise data. He’s additionally in search of reimbursement for his authorized charges.
