Theatre of Pain

LP artwork tells the story of a band addicted to change and chaos.

Band's Brownsville Station cover became its first Top 20 hit.

Vince Neil was officially credited with playing harmonica on the band's breakthrough hit.

In the aftermath of a tragedy, Motley Crue delivered an album that would transform an entire genre.

It's one of the defining hits of the power ballad era and a standout in the Motley Crue catalog, but according to Nikki Sixx, the band had to fight just to release 'Home Sweet Home' on an album -- and if it hadn't been for MTV, it might never have become the lighter-waving favorite we all remember today.

Motley Crue's logo and imagery were already etched onto the notebooks of every hard rock- and metal-loving teenage fan prior to the 1985 release of their third album 'Theatre of Pain.' However, the massive success of the album's soaring ballad 'Home Sweet Home' catapulted the band to a whole new level of stardom and, years later, onto our Top 100 Classic Rock Songs list.