THE MOTLEY SCROLLS

Motley Crue is about the most controversial band that rock'n'roll has ever known. If you ask twenty people in the street one simple question - "Who are Motley Crue?" - you are pretty likely to get twenty different answers. Unless all the guys you're asking are going home from a local chess player conference, of course - in that case you're even more likely to get twenty identicalreplies of "What the hell are you talking about?". The rest of the world has heard of them, no shit. And has formed an opinion. But what opinion? To some, they are an 80s hair band, nothing more and nothing less. To others, they are the antonym of a typical 80s hair band, as opposed to Poisons and Warrants of the era. To some, they are evil in the flesh, the villains of the "American Dream" western. To others, they are heroes, their only helpers in this corrupted world - an escape, a let out. To some, they're posers, phony tale-tellers. To others, they are the symbol of sincerity and attitude. Reducing it to a more mundane level, to some, they're the most masculine womanizers of the States, while others consider them a bunch of cross-dressing queers.

To some, they are just four useless troublemakers.

To some, they are musicians.

But two things about Motley Crue are universally recognized. First, the Crue are definitely one of those bands that you can either love or hate, but they will never leaveyou indifferent. And second, no matter what they are, they are never boring.

Neither is the history of the band. It was awfully rich in events. A little too rich, in fact. But how did it all begin?