Feelgood" and "Kickstart My Heart" were their biggest. It was then rereleased with a greatest hits LP in 1991, just in case we didn't get it the first time around that Tommy Lee also knows how to play the piano. Name that power ballad: "Home Sweet Home," originally released in 1985. Motley Crue’s Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars performed at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey, Pa., July 12, 2022. But he's never had video clips and memes go viral with the hashtag #cantsing like a certain other singer on this tour. Joe Elliott sounded hoarse and used a lot of recorded "augmentation" to re-create the band's famously giant choruses their last time in town at Target Field in 2018 with Journey. It shows off their glam-rock influences and features a rather surprising guest in Alison Krauss.Ĭan the singer still sing? Sorta. Of late: Thanks in part to the two-year delay from COVID, these blokes are touting a new album on this tour, "Diamond Star Halos," their first in seven years. Guitarist Steve Clark's death from alcohol poisoning in 1991 was another blow to the band, but the band carried on again with help from Whitesnake's Vivian Campbell. Low point: Drummer Rick Allen lost an arm in a car accident in 1985, but he famously carried on using an electronically modified drum kit. Other hits: "Rock of Ages," "Photograph" (1983), "Pour Some Sugar on Me," "Animal" (1987).Ĭareer high point: At the peak of MTV's popularity from the mid- to late-'80s, they scored big with the above hits and accompanying videos made with 10 gallons of hairspray apiece, becoming one of the top-selling bands in the world at the time. Name that power ballad: "Love Bites" (1987) was their biggest hit, a song with such ham-fistedly unromantic queries as "Do you think twice, or just touch and see?" and "How do you please yourself?" Here's a comparison.ĭef Leppard singer Joe Elliot roused the crowd at Target Field in 2018 on a triple bill with Journey and Cheap Trick. Still, all four of the Stadium Tour acts have enjoyed admirably resilient careers. Singer Vince Neil has been struggling with vocal problems since about the Clinton administration. Drummer Tommy Lee is on the mend from broken ribs and has been accused of using prerecorded backing tracks to help him play. Mötley Crüe, in particular, is limping into the Minneapolis stop on the oh-so-cleverly named Stadium Tour, which was delayed from 2020 because of COVID-19. "Survived" might be a relative term in this case, though. Somehow, all four survived that decadent decade and a lot more calamity to still be standing 35-plus years later. Bank Stadium on Sunday along with fellow '80s hitmaker Joan Jett, this group of bad boys and one tough woman all relied heavily on the then-crucial image-making machinery of MTV and music videos to become platinum-selling rock acts, plus another 1980s hitmaking tool: the power ballad. They had some of rock's biggest hits and hairdos of the mid-1980s, but who could have predicted that Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe and Poison would be behind the Twin Cities' biggest rock concert of 2022?Īctually, few would have guessed that those three bands would even still be around in 2022.Ĭoming to U.S.
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