Although Ozzy Osbourne is credited as being an influence over the years, he’s actually helped many bands get on their feet, including Mötley Crüe.
In a recent interview with Apple Music’s Travis Mills, drummer Tommy Lee spoke about how the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe made it in the music world, crediting the Prince Of Darkness himself, Ozzy Osbourne, with being the driving force behind the collective’s success.
“He took us on tour,” Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee began. “We were just starting to make some noise, but nothing like [what happened with Osbourne],” he recalled.
Looking back on touring with Ozzy Osbourne back in 1984, Tommy Lee noted that the famed musician gave the collective “an opportunity to play in front or 15,000 people in arenas every single night and that just translated into … The band just blew up after that.”
The beginnings of the collectives relationship with the iconic Ozzy Osbourne stemmed from their stint of touring with the musician in his incredible 1984 Bark At The Moon Tour, which aptly coincided with the band’s 1983 album Shout At The Devil.
Continuing on, Tommy Lee revealed that without Ozzy Osbourne’s help, Mötley Crüe may have not bloomed as it did in the music world, and how that one act of bringing them on tour slated them for success: “If it wasn’t for Ozzy giving us that opportunity to play in front of that many eyeballs every night, we may not be sitting here right now having this conversation. That’s how crazy it is.”
From that moment in history, the collective began receiving airplay with their single ‘Looks That Kill’, which spiralled the band into the big leagues, placing them as one of the many successful heavy metal bands to come out of the 1990s.
Love Metal?
Get the latest Metal news, features, updates and giveaways straight to your inbox Learn more
Check out ‘Home Sweet Home’ by Mötley Crüe:
