Thomas Lee Bass is best known for Tommy Lee. He is a Greek musician and founding member of Motley Crue. He is one of the widely recognized drummers in the world. He founded rap-metal band Methods of Mayhem and has pursued solo musical projects.
Tommy Lee is famous for a singer. His first successful band Suite 19 played the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles during the late-1970s. He met future bandmate, Nikki Sixx. Sixx was forming a theatrical band that would specialize in anthemic heavy metal and was impressed by Lee's drumming. Shortly afterward, guitarist Mick Mars joined the band. He recommended a singer he had met during high school, Vince Neil who soon joined the group and Motley Crue was formed. The band's debut album Too Fast for Love was released in 1981. The band has released several other albums since then such as Shout at the Devil, Theatre of Pain, Girls, Girls, Girls, Dr.Feelgood, Generation Swine, New Tattoo and Saints of Los Angeles among others. Lee has released two solo albums, Never a Dull Moment and Tommyland: The Ride. He starred in a reality show Tommy Lee Goes to College in 2004. With the band Rock Star Supernova, he released the album Rock Star Supernova in 2006.
Tommy Lee was born on October 3, 1962, in Athens, Greece. His family moved to California a year after he was born. He received his first drum when he was four years old, and his first drum kit when he was a teenager. He dropped out of high school to pursue a career in music, starting with the band suite 19. He listened to Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Cheap Trick, Kiss, AC/DC, and Sweet.
Tommy Lee was born to a father named David Lee Thomas Bass and a mother named Vassilikki "Voula" Papadimitriou. His father is an American U.S. Army sergeant and his mother is a Miss Greece contestant for the 1960 Miss World event. He has a younger sister Athena Lee. She was also the drummer in his solo band Krunk and was married to James Kottak, the drummer for the rock band Scorpions.
Tommy Lee height of 6 feet 2.5 inches (1.89m) tall and body weight of 78 kg. He has a slim body build. His chest size is 40 inches, biceps size is 14 inches, and waist size is 32 inches. He has black hair and hazel eyes.
Tommy Lee has been married four times. His first wife is Elaine Starchuk. He then married actress Heather Locklear in May 1986. They separated in 1993. She then met model Bobbie Brown. They were engaged but later split before getting married. He then married actress Pamela Anderson on February 19, 1995. They got married just four days after they met each other. The couple has two sons together, Brandon Thomas and Dylan Jagger. The couple divorced in 1998. Later, they reunited briefly but split again in 2001. They once again reunited in 2008 but split once again for the last time. He then started dating Social media celebrity Brittany Furlan in 2017. In 2018, on Valentine's Day, they announced that they got engaged. A year later on Valentine's Day in 2019, they tied a knot to each other.
Lee and Anderson had videotaped their sexual activities while on vacation. The video was stolen in 1995, released on the internet. The video became a prime example of viral pornography. According to The Dirt, Lee claimed that a former porn star, Rand Gauthier stole and sold the tape. Anderson sued the video distribution company, Internet Entertainment Group. The couple reached a confidential settlement agreement with IEG. Later, IEG made the tape available on its websites that resulted in triple the normal traffic on their site.
Tommy Lee estimated net worth $70 million and his salary is unknown. He earned a good amount of money from his profession. According to Billboard Boxscore, their The Red, White & Crue Tour 2005: Better Live Than Dead grossed $33 million playing 81 shows in 2005.