Mötley Crüe has been hinting about calling it quits since early 2013. After 33 years, the iconic heavy metal band announced their retirement in a press conference inside Beacher's Madhouse at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood on Tuesday afternoon.
Pushing their point home, the stage was set with headstones, one for each of the band members: lead singer Vince Neil, guitarists Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars, and drummer Tommy Lee. But fans will get a chance to see the Girls, Girls, Girls stars one more time as they announced at the conference they will be completing a farewell tour which will last about two years.
In true Mötley style, the tour poster reads: 'RIP: All Bad Things Must Come To An End'. On Sunday, Mötley Crüe posted an image to their Facebook page, promoting the upcoming press conference and calling it 'The Biggest Announcement of Their Career'. The announcement was not completely a surprise as Mötley Crüe had already hinted the time is right for retirement.
'The thing about Mötley Crüe is we are a people's band, we don't kiss ass to the industry,' guitarist Nikki Six told Rolling Stone in October. 'We believe artists should be in control of their own destiny and that destiny also includes when it should be done so that their fans can forever be proud.'
He continued: 'Someone said to me the other day, "Won't you be sad?" I go, "No, I'd be sad if we were playing half-full theaters and only two band members were in the band." 'That would be sad. Sad is not taking your final bow in Los Angeles all together as four brothers.'
Nikki is looking forward to going out with a bang. The film adaptation of the band's autobiography, The Dirt, is currently in development. 'It's going to come out at some point before our tour starts,' Neil told Billboard. 'We're hoping an early spring kind of thing.'
