Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee has revealed what happened after his band’s notorious gross-out battle with Ozzy Osbourne. It's a well-worn story that bears repeating: In 1984 the rockers were out The residency has been rescheduled for September. Mötley Crüe’s tour with Ozzy Osbourne has passed into legend for its debauchery, as recounted in the band’s autobiography The Dirt and the subsequent movie version. In one memorable episode, Ozzy snorted a line of ants in front of the band while wearing a dress. Ozzy Osbourne tours & concert list along with photos, videos, and setlists of their live performances. Tommy Lee, the drummer of Mötley Crüe, has shared his most shocking story from spending time on the road with Ozzy Osbourne. The anecdote involves his band having a gross-out battle with the Black Sabbath singer, which got way out of hand, and while it’s previously been documented, a new layer 10/1/84 Mötley plays their opening show on the first leg of Ozzy Osbourne’s Bark At The Moon tour in front of nine and a half thousand people in Portland, Maine. They meet Ozzy for the first time during his sound-check, and he instantly takes a liking to them. He hardly spends a night on his own tour bus, preferring to travel on the partying bus of the Crüe instead. Ozzy’s photographer Nikki Sixx explained why Motley Crue were unable to perform at Ozzy Osbourne's farewell concert in July 2025. Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue launched one of the most debauched tours of all time in January 1984. And while many of the artists who partook in that excess have recounted aspects of it over the years, never before have all the major players, including Ozzy, the members of Motley Crue, musicians Jake E. Lee and Carmine Appice, as well as key figures like Sharon Osbourne, Motley manager Doc McGhee, Motley head of security Fred Saunders and various Elektra label execs, come together to tell Bark at the Moon Tour was the fourth major concert tour by Ozzy Osbourne. The tour was in support of Ozzy's third album Bark at the Moon. O Fortuna I Don't Know Mr. Crowley Rock 'N' Roll Rebel Bark at the Moon Revelation (Mother Earth) Steal Away (The Night) Suicide Solution Jake E. Lee's Guitar Solo Centre of Eternity Carmine Appice/Tommy Aldridge's drum solo Flying High Again Iron Man (Black Speculation has been rife over which “greedy” band Ozzy Osbourne’s wife, Sharon, disinvited from his emotional last show with Black Sabbath. Emma Trimble / SWNS “My guess is Motley Crue The Bark at the Moon Tour was a tour by Ozzy Osbourne from 1983 to 1985, supporting his album Bark at the Moon. After Sharon Osbourne revealed that a band was dropped from Ozzy's Black Sabbath farewell concert for being "greedy," fans have been speculating who it is Tour Bark At The Moon 1983-1985 11 November 1983 Ipswich ENG United Kingdom Gaumont Theatre Set List 12 November 1983 Leeds ENG United Kingdom Leeds University Union While on tour with Motley Crue in the early 1980s, he snorted a line of ants through a straw, daring band leader Nikki Sixx to do the same. Nikki Sixx revealed why Mötley Crüe didn't perform at Ozzy Osbourne's Black Sabbath farewell show after Sharon Osbourne said a band was disinvited. Ants Osbourne toured with Motley Crue in the 1980s, and it was during this time that he is rumoured to have shocked his fellow rockers after “spotting” a line of ants. Bassist Nikki Sixx After Sharon Osbourne revealed she had disinvited a band from Ozzy Osbourne’s Black Sabbath farewell concert, fans took to social media to speculate which one it was. “My guess is Motley Crue The anticipation that everyone felt when Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue announced a tour together was palpable and everyone was hoping for stories of the ultimate forms of rock 'n' roll, but no one could have imagined what, and more specifically how much, of debauchery was going to happen when the tour began in January 1984. Mötley Crüe were an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California on January 17, 1981. The group was founded by bass guitarist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee, lead singer Vince Neil and lead guitarist Mick Mars. Mötley Crüe has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, including 25 million albums in the United States, making them one of the best-selling bands of all time. The first time Mötley Crüe and Ozzy Osbourne met happened during Ozzy Osbourne ‘s Bark At The Moon tour, which was a tour that featured Osbourne ‘s third solo album from 1983 to 1985. At the tour, Mötley Crüe was an opening act for Osbourne with Waysted.
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