Motley Crue are officially returning to the stage nearly a decade after announcing that they were retiring from performing for good.
The legendary rock band, currently made up of Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee, Vince Neil and John 5, first came together in 1981, with hits including Dr Feelgood, Without You and Girls, Girls, Girls.
Earlier this year, the group released their first single in five years, with Dogs of War, and they have now announced a brand new Las Vegas residency, with a limited string of dates in 2025.
They confirmed the upcoming gigs with a post on their official Instagram page, promptly sending fans into meltdown.
Medievalwolfgrrl replied: ‘Thanks, guys! This is awesome and I’ll definitely be there!’
Officialharleyroxx agreed: ‘Hell yeah!!! Vegasssssss LFG [sic].’
‘Got me all excited my guys,’ Iesha_jonesx penned.
While many, many more flooded the comments section to plead for a Motley Crue world tour.
The group will be headlining performances at Dolby Live at Park MGM from March 28 until April 19, with tickets on sale from tomorrow.
The announcement may come as a shock as they famously signed a Cessation of Touring agreement in 2014, which came into effect at the end of the following year.
In the document, they vowed to never tour again after becoming fed up of life on the road – but they later U-turned on this in 2019 by blowing up the paperwork.
‘Almost six years after signing a cessation of touring agreement, the contract is off the table because a whole new generation of Crueheads are relentlessly demanding for the band to come back together,’ the band said in a statement, via Sky News, in the wake of the huge success of their biopic.
‘Following the huge success of their Netflix biopic The Dirt, Motley Crue has seen a massive surge in new audience.
‘And the band best known for making the rules has destroyed their cessation of touring contract in true Motley Crue fashion, by literally blowing it up.’
Looking back at the decision ahead of their residency, Nikki – who founded Motley Crue alongside Vince, Tommy and Mick Mars in 1981 – told People Magazine: ‘We were wrong in retiring, obviously.’
He also teased what to expect from their run of Vegas dates, adding: ‘We want to just relook at our songs and [incorporate] songs that people have been asking us to play for a long time, maybe some B-tracks, some different tracks, and rethink the idea of an intimate evening with the band.
‘We’re in the early creative process, but we just don’t want to repeat ourselves. We want to do something special for Vegas.’
Although he insisted that they are ‘still all about being Motley’, Nikki conceded that their wild days are mostly behind them.
‘Those days have come and gone. I think that the life that we lived and the experiences that we got to experience are not repeatable for any generations in the future. We were there at a time — and the time was not what a lot of people think it is, by the way.
‘For us, it’s about moving forward. Motley Crüe is still having hit singles 43 years later, and we’re still touring and doing stadiums, so we don’t really want to be living in the past. You are partially your past, but we are also our future.’