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| Single by Mötley Crüe | |
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| B-side | "Slice Of Your Pie" |
| Released | February 1990 [1] |
| Recorded | 1988–89 |
| Genre | Glam metal[2] |
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| Label | Elektra |
| Songwriter(s) | Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars |
| Producer(s) | Bob Rock |
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"Without You" is a power ballad[3][4] by American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe. It was originally released on their 1989 album, Dr. Feelgood.
Background[]
The song features Mick Mars playing a steel guitar during the intro and the solo, a clean electric guitar arpeggio on the verses and bridge, and various licks on a distorted electric guitar throughout. In the Dr. Feelgood album's liner notes, the composition is said to be about Tommy Lee's relationship with Heather Locklear.
Music video[]
The music video was shot at the Grand 1894 Opera House in Galveston, Texas on January 15, 1990, following Mötley Crüe's Houston concert.[5] Produced by Sharon Oreck through O Pictures and photographed by Bill Pope, "Without You" is the first of two Crüe videos to be directed by Mary Lambert under the alias "Blanche White"[6] ("blanche" meaning "white" in French). Lambert's original idea for the video was "to do a motorcycle movie" but Mötley Crüe objected, as they had done that before (in the music video for "Girls, Girls, Girls").[7] The final clip, which was described by Nikki Sixx as having a very "surreal" touch to it, includes various abstract images, a live jaguar (Czar from the Exotic Cat Refuge and Wildlife Orphanage in Kirbyville), a violin ensemble playing during the slide solo, and the band playing in an Ancient Egypt-fashioned scenario. Traces of Persian cultural tradition are present in the last few seconds of the studio release.
Personnel[]
- Vince Neil - vocals
- Mick Mars - guitar
- Nikki Sixx - bass
- Tommy Lee - drums
Chart positions[]
Released as the album's third single in 1990, "Without You" reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the United States, #11 on the Mainstream Rock Chart,[8] and #39 on the UK Singles Chart.
Weekly charts[]
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Year-end charts[]
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References[]
- ↑ "Motley Crue singles". https://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=M%F6tley+Cr%FCe&titel=Without+You&cat=s.
- ↑ Bowar, Chad. "Best 20 Hair Metal Ballads of the '80s and '90s" (in en). https://www.liveabout.com/best-hair-metal-ballads-1752387.
- ↑ "The 10 worst power ballads ever written". Louder. https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-10-worst-power-ballads-ever-written.
- ↑ Masley, Ed. "Best Motley Crue songs of all time" (in en-US). https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/music/2014/07/16/best-motley-crue-songs-fast-love-sos/12681445/.
- ↑ "Chronological Crue - 1990". http://members.ozemail.com.au/~cruekiss/90.htm.
- ↑ Greatest Video Hits, DVD, 2003
- ↑ Headbangers Ball, MTV, early 1990
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Mötley Crüe - Mainstream rock". https://www.billboard.com/artist/motley-crue/chart-history/rtt/.
- ↑ "Motley Crue: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
- ↑ "Billboard Top 100 - 1990". http://longboredsurfer.com/charts.php?year=1990.
- ↑ "Script error: No such module "WLink".&titel=Script error: No such module "WLink".&cat=s Motley Crue – Without You". ARIA Top 50 Singles.
- ↑ Nielsen Business Media, Inc (December 22, 1990). "1990 The Year in Music & Video: Top Pop Singles". Billboard 102 (51): YE-14.
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