“Without You” by Motley Crue

"Without You" was Mötley Crüe's slow dance from Dr. Feelgood, a power ballad issued as the album's third single in early 1990 on Elektra. Nikki Sixx wrote the words and the music with Mick Mars, and according to the album's liner notes it's about Tommy Lee and his relationship with Heather Locklear. Bob Rock produced, mixing it with Randy Staub.

Mars carries the whole thing: he opens on steel guitar and returns to it for the solo, picks out a clean electric arpeggio beneath the verses and bridge and lets distorted licks snake all the way through, while Vince Neil sings lead and Marc LaFrance adds backing vocals. Mary Lambert directed the video under the alias "Blanche White", shooting at the Grand 1894 Opera House in Galveston, Texas, right after a Houston concert. She'd pitched a biker movie, but the band had already done that for "Girls, Girls, Girls".

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