Sharise Ruddell and Neil divorced in 1993. All previous Mötley Crüe albums had sold at least one million copies.

It sold only about 300,000 copies in the US, just about as many as Mötley's 1994 Neil-less album Mötley Crüe with singer John Corabi (previously of The Scream). The album featured Steve Stevens (formerly Billy Idol's guitarist and Atomic Playboys founder), Dave Marshall, Robbie Crane, and Vik Foxx. Exposed, his solo debut,debuted at #13 on the Billboard charts, was released in mid-1993. In 1992 he released his first solo offering, a single 'You're Invited (But Your Friend Can't Come) featured on the Encino Man soundtrack. According to rumors in the band's autobiography, The Dirt, he was fired because he was more interested in car racing than in the band (he was racing in the Indy Lights open wheel developmental series at the time). Neil left Mötley Crüe to pursue a solo career in February 1992. Feelgood, in 1989 after going through rehab. The band released their highest-selling album, Dr. He married Sharise Ruddell in April 1988.

Following a prison sentence, Neil regrouped with Mötley Crüe to record Theatre of Pain (1985) and Girls, Girls, Girls (1987). The passenger in his 72' De Tomaso Pantera, Nicholas 'Razzle' Dingley, the drummer of Hanoi Rocks, died from his injuries. In 1984, after a tour with Ozzy Osbourne, Neil was in a drunk driving accident near Redondo Beach, California. In 1983, Mötley Crüe released Shout at the Devil, a blockbuster success that established the band as one of the biggest acts of the 1980s. That same year, he married his first wife, Beth Lynn and Mötley Crüe released its first album, Too Fast for Love. He was discovered while performing with his band, Rock Candy, and joined Mötley Crüe in 1981. As well as an interest in music, as a teen Neil was also interested in surfing and baseball.

Neil soon learned to become street-wise, but was in some trouble at school, he got kicked out, later finding out he has a form of dyslexia. Growing up in Compton was sometimes tough, he once even had his face and chin slashed by a gang member. During the 1960s, his family moved around, from Inglewood, California to Watts, before finally settling in Compton, California. Neil was born to Odie and Shirley Wharton in 1961 in Southern California. Vincent Neil Wharton (born Februin Hollywood, California), better known as Vince Neil is the lead singer for American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe.

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