Mick Mars is an American musician and the former lead guitarist and co-founder of the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe.
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He was born Robert Alan Deal on May 4, 1951 to Frank and Tina Deal.
The second of five children, Robert was born in Huntington, Indiana where he spent the earlier part of his childhood years.
He dropped out of high school and began playing guitar in a series of unsuccessful blues-based rock bands throughout the 1970s, sometimes using the name Zorky Charlemagne, and occasionally taking on menial day jobs.
One of the bands, Whitehorse, had a vocalist named Micki Marz who inspired the later name change.
The name Mötley Crüe came about after Mars remembered someone referring to an old band he was in as a “motley looking crew.”
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Mick’s 20 plus year career with the band was very eventful.
From a relationship in which he was abused to the point of attempting suicide, to being arrested in a case of mistaken identity after Tommy Lee had run down a Denver hotel hallway naked.
His life would continue to be a roller coaster ride full of ups and downs. Mick battled depression; alcohol abuse and an addition to painkillers stemming from a personal health issue that he would confess to the world just after the band hit their 20-year anniversary mark.
On 28th October, 2022, Mars announced through a rep that he will be unable to tour with the band he co-founded due to his struggle with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), a rare kind of athritis.
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