Nikki Sixx is a man with many talents!
Nikki is a very busy man since cleaning up from his heroin addiction. Besides being the bassist for two of today's hottest bands, he is also a writer, and a photographer!
Nikki Sixx overdoses twice
What does it take for a Rock Star to get clean?
In 1987, Nikki Sixx lived a very different life style from how he lives today. Back then, Nikki Sixx was riding a roller coaster of rock n roll, and it was derailing fast and taking Nikki for the ride of his life. It was a ride that almost cost him his life, several times.Nikki Sixx was a young kid with lots of money to spend and nothing better to spend it on other than heroin and other drugs. Coming from a bad family and growing up being parentless, Nikki found drugs as an easy way to not deal with his pains. He didn't realize the drugs would cause him so many more pains in life. He spiraled out of control until one night he was too messed up to do his own shot of heroin. He left the job up to his dealer, who injected Nikki Sixx with a lethal dose of heroin. Nikki went straight to the floor and started convulsing right there on the floor.
The junkies around him flipped out, but managed to get Nikki to the hospital where doctors gave him a double shot of adrenaline right to his heart.
Any normal person might have wised up and got clean after an incident like that, but that just wasn't Nikki's style. It would take another overdose and a few more years for him to get clean.
Nikki and the rest of Motley Crue eventfully got drug free and was on their way to major success after their Number 1 album Dr Feelgood hit the stores!
Nikki Sixx is drug free and has published a book called "Heroin Diaries - Life of a Rockstar Junky", which has gone to #1 on the New York Times best sellers list!
Nikki continues to write songs for his band Motley Crue and they are set for a huge summer tour called CrueFest 2008, that will feature 5 bands!
Nikki Sixx Gives Back
So what has Nikki Sixx done to be a hero? The Royal Underground
He also published his journals from his drug infused days with Motley Crue and donates portions of the proceeds to charity!
The Heroin Diaries: by Nikki Sixx
A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented alongside riveting commentary from people who were there at the time, and from Nikki himself.
When Motley Crue was at the height of its fame, there wasn't any drug Nikki Sixx wouldn't do. He spent days -- sometimes alone, sometimes with other addicts, friends, and lovers -- in a coke and heroin-fueled daze. The highs were high, and Nikki's journal entries reveal some euphoria and joy. But the lows were lower, often ending with Nikki in his closet, surrounded by drug paraphernalia and wrapped in paranoid delusions.
Here, Nikki shares those diary entries -- some poetic, some scatterbrained, some bizarre -- and reflects on that time. Joining him are Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Slash, Rick Nielsen, Bob Rock, and a host of ex-managers, ex-lovers, and more.
Brutally honest, utterly riveting, and shockingly moving, The Heroin Diaries follows Nikki during the year he plunged to rock bottom -- and his courageous decision to pick himself up and start living again.
The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
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About the Author
Born Frank Feranna, Nikki Sixx grew up in Seattle and moved to Los Angeles at the age of seventeen. There, in 1981, he became the bassist for Motley Crue, the legendary rock band he started with friend Tommy Lee. Today he is a family man with many projects on the side, including songwriting, film, a new band, a clothing line, as well as ongoing work with the Crue.
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- Nikki Sixx lyrics | LyricsMode.com
- Comprehensive archive of Nikki Sixx lyrics at LyricsMode.com.
- Motley Crue tabs - XGuitar.com
- Guitar and bass tabs for 9 Motley Crue albums including Theatre of Pain, Dr. Feelgood, Girls, Girls, Girls and Shout at the Devil
- Motley Crue Guitar Tabs
- Motley Crue Guitar Tabs
- Motley.com home
- Mötley Crüe's official web site and fan club, featuring news, photos, concert tickets, merchandise, and more.
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Nikki Sixx dated Kat Von D!
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Books written or co-written by Nikki Sixx
The Dirt and The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx
The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
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An Education in Rebellion: The Biography of Nikki Sixx
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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx, Neil Strauss
In the beginning there was the Motley House, crawling with cockroaches and rats, beer cans piled on the porch so high they threatened to spill into the house every time you opened the door. "That place gave birth to Motley Crue," the band recalls in The Dirt: The Autobiography of Motley Crue. After the record contract, they write, "like a pack of mad dogs we abandoned the bitch, leaving with enough reckless, aggravated testosterone to spawn a million bastard embryo metal bands." Crue members Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil and Nikki Sixx also team up with New York Times music writer Neil Strauss to tell the story of their band's rise to phenomenal success: their tours, friendships, alcohol and drug problems, music, influence and, above all, girls. No heavy metal fan will want to be without this crude, honest chronicle.
Motley Crue: The Dirt - Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
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Finally, I received my of "The Dirt" from Amazon and I knew from various tidbits of information from other sources that I would enjoy this read. I'm 19 years young now and was not "there" in the 80s when the Motley Crues, Poisons, and Warrants ruled the world, but I grew up on Rock-N-Roll now, and still Love and live it......
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- JaguarJulie JaguarJulie Nov 16, 2008 @ 8:34 am
- Oh, would you believe that I have a niece named Nikki? I love the alliteration in his name. kk xx ii ... Cool lens! Hey is that grandma Julia Nagy I see? She'd surely dig this music. ;) xoxo
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