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Nikki Sixx Co Founder of Motley Crue

Motley Crue founder and bassist Nikki Sixx! Nikki Sixx is a songwriter, a photographer, band member in two bands, owns a clothing line, and is a father to 4 children!
Nikki Sixx has had several addictions to different drugs and has over dosed on more than two occasions.
Today Nikki Sixx is sober and enjoying the success from all his hard work!

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Who is Nikki Sixx 

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Motley Crue

In 1981, Sixx founded Motley Crue with drummer Tommy Lee, later being joined by guitarist Mick Mars through an ad in the paper, then by singer Vince Neil. The band decided to self-record their debut album, Too Fast for Love, which was subsequently released in November 1981 on the band's own Leathur Records label. After signing with Elektra Records they re-released the album. The band then went on to record and release Shout at the Devil, raising the band to national fame. Like his bandmates, Nikki Sixx binged on alcohol, cocaine, and most notably heroin.

Nikki Sixx (born Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna, Jr., December 11, 1958) is an American bassist, author, photographer, and the main songwriter for the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe. He has also played bass for glam metal band London, the experimental band 58, the hard rock band Brides of Destruction and more recently, Category: Sixx:A.M. -

Early life of Nikki Sixx 

Nikki Sixx when he was Frank Feranna

Early life

Sixx was born Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna on December 11, 1958 in San Jose, California.[1] He was raised by his single mother, Deana Richards, and her abusive boyfriend, after his father and namesake, Frank Ferrana abandoned the family. When he was six, he and his mother moved to New Mexico for a short time, after which they moved to Jerome, Idaho, with his grandparents. The family moved several more times, to El Paso, Texas, then to Anthony, New Mexico, back to El Paso, and then returned to Jerome.

While living in Idaho, Sixx became a teenage vandal, breaking into neighbors' homes, shoplifting, a drug addict and being expelled from school for selling drugs. His grandparents sent him to live with his mother, who had moved to Seattle. He lived there for a short time, and learned how to play the bass guitar after buying his first instrument with money made from selling a guitar he stole from a guitar shop that he stopped by while waiting for a bus.

At the age of 17, he struck out on his own, moving to Los Angeles and working at jobs at a liquor store and selling vacuums over the phone while he auditioned for bands. He auditioned for the band Sister, with Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P. before joining London, a local glam outfit whose lineup saw numerous changes and whose major claim to fame was that its singer, Nigel Benjamin, had sung with a late version of Mott the Hoople. Nikki soon left the band, convinced that his ideas for world domination would never come to fruition with Dane Rage and Lizzie Grey as his partners in crime.

Motley Crue - Saints of Los Angeles Video 

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Saints of Los Angeles
The first single, "Saints of Los Angeles", was released in on April 11, started airing on radio stations on April 15, 2008, and was given further promotion through the music video game Rock Band, being released as downloadable content on Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Store on the same day. A video for the single was premiered at a press conference by the band on April 15. Jacoby Shaddix from Papa Roach, Josh Todd from Buckcherry, Chris Brown from Trapt, Marion Raven and James Michael from Sixx A.M. all make cameos at the end of the video.

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Saints of Los Angeles by Motley Crue 

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Saints of Los Angeles
Released June 24 2008
Supporting Tour: CrueFest 2008
Supporting Acts: Papa Roach, Sixx AM, Trapt, Buckcherry

First full studio album from Motley Crue in 8 years! Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, and Vince Neil have released Saints of Los Angeles. Buy it now and rock out to the hardest rocking band from the 80's era!
Memories of the Dr. Feelgood days come flooding out listening to these new Motley Crue songs!

Saints of Los Angeles

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Song List(Click Song Name to listen to song)
1. L.A.M.F.
2. Face Down In The Dirt
3. What's It Gonna Take
4. Down At The Whisky
5. Saints of Los Angeles (Gang Vocal)
6. Mutherf***er of the Year
7. The Animal In Me
8. Welcome To The Machine
9. Just Another Psycho
10. Chicks = Trouble
11. This Ain't A Love Song
12. White Trash Circus
13. Goin' Out Swingin'

Release Date: 06/24/2008

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The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack by Nikki Sixx and Sixx AM 

The Heroin Diaries is a concept album written by Nikki Sixx, James Michael and DJ Ashba and recorded by their band Sixx:A.M., which serves as the companion soundtrack to Nikki Sixx's autobiography, The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star. "Life is Beautiful", the first single off the album, was originally posted on Sixx's MySpace page; it "picked up momentum" and entered the radio charts, debuting at #26 on the Billboard rock singles chart. It peaked at #2 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The album was released on August 21, 2007. There are 13 tracks on the album, with one taken from each chapter of the book. It has sold more than 210.000 copies to date in the U.S as of May 2008.

The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack

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Track listing
1. "X-Mas in Hell" (Nikki Sixx/DJ Ashba) - 2:10
2. "Van Nuys" (James Michael) - 3:52
3. "Life Is Beautiful" (Sixx/Michael/DJ Ashba) - 3:36
4. "Pray for Me" (Sixx/Michael/DJ Ashba) - 4:14
5. "Tomorrow" (Sixx/Michael/DJ Ashba/Scott Stevens) - 4:05
6. "Accidents Can Happen" (Sixx/Michael/Ashba) - 4:07
7. "Intermission" (Sixx/DJ Ashba) - 2:20
8. "Dead Man's Ballet" (Michael) - 5:25
9. "Heart Failure" (Sixx/Michael/DJ Ashba) - 4:58
10. "Girl with Golden Eyes" (Sixx/Michael/DJ Ashba) - 4:20
11. "Courtesy Call" (Michael) - 4:41
12. "Permission" (Michael) - 4:14
13. "Life After Death" (Sixx/DJ Ashba) - 3:00

Release Date: 08/21/2007

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Nikki Sixx and DJ Ashba The Heroin Diaries 

Nikki Sixx and DJ Ashba discuss The Heroin Diaries, women, monkeys and kids in Malibu with Lesa Amoore

For Young Hollywood at the Style by the Shore charity event benefiting the World Wildlife Foundation.

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Nikki Sixx and Motley Crue 

Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee formed Motley Crue in 1981

Nikki Sixx of Motley CrueMötley Crüe

In 1981, Sixx founded Mötley Crüe with drummer Tommy Lee. The band decided to self-record their debut album, Too Fast for Love, which was subsequently released in November 1981 on the band's own Leathür Records label. After signing with Elektra Records they re-released the album. The band then went on to record and release Shout at the Devil, raising the band to national fame.
Like his bandmates, Nikki Sixx binged on alcohol, cocaine, and most notably heroin. Sixx has often stated that he would use his body as a human chemistry set, mixing excessive amounts of drugs on a regular basis to search for a new high.
On the night of December 23, 1987, Sixx was declared dead for two minutes after a heroin overdose, only to be revived by paramedics with two adrenaline shots to the heart (this incident was the inspiration for the song "Kickstart my Heart").
In an interview, Sixx states that after he was declared dead, the ambulance arrived, but one of the paramedics in the ambulance was a Motley Crüe fan. "Apparently, the paramedic took one look at me and said, 'He's not gonna die'". On an earlier trip to London, Sixx overdosed at a dealer's house and the dealer apparently tried to beat the life back into him with a bat. Afterwards, the dealer dumped Sixx into a nearby dumpster. Sixx recounted the incident in The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star.
This incident was the inspiration behind the lyric "Valentine's in London, found me in the trash" from the Mötley Crüe song "Dancing on Glass".

Soon after his overdose, he and his bandmates went into rehab. In 1989, the band produced their most successful record, Dr. Feelgood, with producer Bob Rock. The album stayed on the charts for 109 weeks after its release. When Mötley Crüe reformed at the end of 2004, Sixx declared himself sober.

Sixx wrote most of Mötley Crüe's material, including tracks such as "Live Wire", "Home Sweet Home", "Girls, Girls, Girls", "Kickstart My Heart" and "Dr. Feelgood". In the 1990s, all four members began contributing to the material on the albums.

As of 2006, Mötley Crüe have finished a reunion tour featuring all four original members. They've stated that they will record demos for a 2007 album. An exact target release date has not yet been set. Mötley Crüe also embarked on a 2006 tour co-headlining with Aerosmith, called "The Route of All Evil". According to a recent press release from Neil, Mötley Crüe is set to go into the studio in January to record their new album, due for release in 2008. They have released a new single The Saints of Los Angeles, from their upcoming album of the same name.

Nikki Sixx clothing line is called DragonFly Clothing 

NIKKI SIXX red dragon thermal biker shirt, Dragonfly

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Release Date: 12/31/1969

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Watch Nikki Sixx get crazy with Jack Daniels at a concert! 

This video is from 1987 on the Girls Girls Girls tour

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Head Banger Wall Clock 

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Head Bangers Skull and Bass Guitar. Heavy Metal Music rules, and so does playing bass guitar! If you are a bass guitar player then you will love this head banger design.
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Sixx:A.M. - Life is Beautiful 

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Skulls in Frame Light T-Shirt 

Three evil looking skulls and a beautiful frame make up this design.

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