Mötley Crüe and Mick Mars are locked in a legal battle over a touring dispute. Mars retired from touring in 2022 due to arthritis.
on Thursday and accused the band of forcing him to resign after he chose to stop touring.
"It is beyond sad that, after 41 years together, a band would try to throw out a member who is unable to tour anymore because he has a debilitating disease," his attorney said in a statement to Fox News Digital."Mick has been pushed around for far too long in this band, and we are not going to let that continue."that Mars gave up his rights to any future earnings from tours after he quit, according to Variety.
"Things get twisted around sometimes from other band members. I don’t really know if I should say this, but . . . those guys have been hammering on me since ’87, trying to replace me," Mars told Variety."They haven’t been able to do that, because I’m the guitar player. I helped form this band. It’s my name I came up with [the Mötley Crüe moniker], my ideas, my money that I had from a backer to start this band. It wouldn’t have gone anywhere.
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