Tommy Lee

Tommy Lee married model, Elaine Margaret Starchuk on November 24, 1984 and divorced her in 1985.

In 1986, he married Heather Locklear, an actress and divorced her in 1993.

In 1995, he married the popular pin-up girl and Playboy Playmate, Pamela Anderson, who created headlines by wearing a bikini on her wedding day. They have two sons together.

Thomas Lee Bass was born on October 3, 1962 to David Oliver Bass and Vassiliki Papadimitriou in Athens, Greece. He has a younger sister, Athena Lee and he is of American-Welsh descent.

When he was just a year old, the family moved to West Covina, California.He was presented his first drum at the tender age of 4 and his first drum kit when he was a teenager. He quit high school to pursue a career in rock music.

As a teenager, he was highly inspired by the bands, ‘Queen’, ‘Kiss’, ‘Judas Priest’ and ‘Led Zeppelin’. He was also influenced by the works of the drummer, Peter Criss.

After he quit school, he debuted with the band ‘Suite 19’ in the 1970s, where he met future band members for ‘Mötley Crüe’. On January 17, 1980, ‘Mötley Crüe’ was formed with members, Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars and Vince Neil.

The band released their first album, ‘Too Fast for Love’ in 1981 under their very own record label, Leathür Records. However, Elektra Records decided to sign on the band and recirculated their debut album the following year.

Through the 1980s, the ‘Mötley Crüe’ released a sequence of hit albums including, ‘Shout at the Devil’, ‘Theatre of Pain’, ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’ and ‘Dr. Feelgood’, establishing the band as one of the most versatile hard rock/metal bands at the time.

During the 1990s, Tommy Lee became involved in turbulent relationships and was even imprisoned once for being accused by Pamela Anderson for hitting her in front of their children.

In 1999, when he was still in prison, he left his band ‘Mötley Crüe’ and created another band, ‘Methods of Mayhem’. However, the partnership with this band was short-lived.

‘Too Fast for Love’, Mötley Crüe’s debut album released in 1981 and re-released in 1982, reached platinum status by the RIAA in the United States and reached the number 77 position on the Billboard 200. The album features the band’s first hit single, ‘Live Wire’.

‘Shout at the Devil’, released in 1983, featured a number of singles including, ‘Looks That Kill’, ‘Shout at the Devil’ and ‘Too Young to Fall in Love’. This album was considered the band’s breakthrough success album, which appeared in the Mainstream Rock chart and the Billboard Hot 100. The album was also awarded 4x Platinum by the RIAA.

‘Never a Dull Moment’, released on May 21, 2002, is his first solo album which features the hit single, ‘Hold Me Down’. This single charted the Mainstream Rock chart the same year and was also featured at the number 39 position of the Billboard 200.