Los Angeles ? The original members of 1980s glam metal band Mtley Crüe, which made hard living and wild sexcapades a centerpiece of their music and their lives, on Monday announced a world reunion tour.

After a five-year hiatus, the big-haired, leather-clad Crüe members are eager to slip back into the music, if not the lifestyle depicted in hits like “Girls, Girls, Girls” and “Smokin’ in the Boys’ Room.”

The band arrived Monday at the Hollywood Palladium in a hearse, sporting eye makeup. About 1,000 people cheered as the group opened with “Dr. Feelgood” following a news conference.

With support from cable music television network VH1, the band — vocalist Vince Neil, drummer Tommy Lee, guitarist Mick Mars and bass player Nikki Sixx — plan a world tour beginning in February in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The band will hit more than 60 cities in North America during two legs and play several festivals in Europe before wrapping up the tour in southeast Asia and Australia.

The band will release a double-CD greatest hits compilation with three new songs titled “Red, White & Crüe” in February.

The band originally formed in 1981, but its members have been known less in recent years for their music and more for their personal troubles, particularly Lee, who has been in and out of probation stemming from charges in 1998 that he abused ex-wife actress Pamela Anderson. In 1989, Sixx nearly died from a heroin overdose. Mars is recovering from hip-replacement surgery to treat a degenerative illness.