Tommy Lee is best recognised for his work as a founding member of and drummer for the rock band Mötley Crüe.
Tommy Lee Bass was given the name Thomas Lee Bass on October 3, 1962, in Athens, Greece.
The first authentic drum kit came to him when he was a teenager, following his discovery of hard rock and heavy metal, particularly the bands Kiss, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple.
Lee was a drummer in his high school marching band before deciding to forego his senior year to pursue his ambition of being a member of a rock band instead.
At the time Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixx met, Sixx was looking to build a band that would be very theatrical and specialise in heavy metal anthems. Sixx was looking to form a band that would be highly theatrical and specialise in heavy metal songs.
Sixx persuaded Lee to leave Studio 19, and the two of them formed the nucleus of what would become Mötley Crüe in the following year.
It was under the band’s own independent label, Mötley Crüe Records, that they released their debut album, Too Fast For Love, in 1981.
During his drum solos, Lee was known for incorporating a variety of extraordinary effects and stunts, such as having his drum kit float above the audience while he played.
Methods of Mayhem, the band’s debut album, was released in the same year, and the group embarked on a tour in support of the album’s title track that year.
Red, White, and Crüe was a double-CD anthology album released by Mötley Crüe in 2004 that featured Lee and the rest of the band’s original lineup performing songs from their catalogue.
In 2005, he starred in his own reality television series, Tommy Lee Goes to College, in which he attended classes at the University of Nebraska and participated in the marching band of the school.
Following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, Mötley Crüe had been set to perform a series of stadium shows on tour with Poison, Def Lepard, and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts in 2020.
Lee tied the knot with actress Heather Locklear on May 10, 1986. In 1993, the couple decided to separate.
Lee Anderson tied the knot with Pamela Anderson on February 19, 1995.
In 1998, Lee was sentenced to six months in county jail after pleading no guilty to kicking Pamela Anderson in the stomach while she was holding their baby Dylan in her arms. Anderson allegedly refused to phone her parents and urge them not to come over to the family’s residence, and as a result, Lee allegedly assaulted his wife.
Brittany Furlan, Lee’s girlfriend of two years, received a proposal from him on February 14, 2018, according to Lee.
They were married on a beach in Mexico, just a few days after he purchased this house, and their honeymoon was spent there.
When Pamela and Tommy returned from their trip to Mexico, they immediately settled into their new home and began a massive makeover.
An enraged electrician named Rand Gauthier planned an intricate scheme to take Tommy’s safe from his garage in October 1995 as a form of retaliation for an alleged $20-30,000 debt that Tommy had failed to pay.
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