If I Die Tomorrow

Infobox Single
Name = If I Die Tomorrow

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Artist = Mötley Crüe
from Album = Red, White & Crüe
Released = 2005 (US)
Format = CD single
Recorded = *Unknown at this time
Genre = Hard Rock
Length = 3 min 46 sec
Label = Universal Records (US)
Producer = Bob Rock
Writer = Simple Plan, Nikki Sixx
Chart position =

• #4 (US Mainstream Rock)
• #63 (UK)

Reviews =
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Last single = "Hell On High Heels"
(2000)
This single = "If I Die Tomorrow"
(2005)
Next single = "Sick Love Song"
(2005) |

"If I Die Tomorrow" is a song by the American hard rock band Mötley Crüe released on their 2005 compilation album "Red, White & Crüe". The song was one of the new songs recorded by Mötley Crüe for the album.

Originally written by the Canadian pop punk band Simple Plan, "If I Die Tomorrow" was left off their 2004 album "Still Not Getting Any..." as the band didn't feel that it fit in with the rest of the album.Bliss, Karen. Dec 15, 2004. [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/motleycrue/articles/story/6769256/simple_plan_pen_crue_tune Simple Plan Pen Crue Tune] . Rolling Stone. Retrieved on January 2, 2007.] After finishing work with Simple Plan, producer Bob Rock brought the song to Mötley Crüe knowing that they were looking to record new material to include on their new compilation album. After hearing the song, Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx made many changes to it before the band recorded it.

A video was made to promote the single, which featured each one of the band members, which includes Sixx, vocalist Vince Neil, drummer Tommy Lee and guitarist Mick Mars each individually in a nightmarish scene from his past. Sixx's scene shows him overdosing on heroin, Neil killing his friend, Razzle from Hanoi Rocks, Mars in a hospital bed, battling Ankylosing spondylitis, and Lee, in prison. [Odell, Michael. Mar 2005. [http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=1475 Twilight of the Gods] . Blender. Retrieved on January 2, 2007.]

Singer, Vince Neil planned to release a solo single at the same time, noting that his was "less in your face" and "more soulful." [http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=1475] However, this never came to pass.

A live version of the song appears on the band's 2006 album, "Carnival of Sins Live".

Personnel

* Vince Neil - vocals
* Mick Mars - guitar
* Nikki Sixx - bass
* Tommy Lee - drums

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