The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

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She came back 15 minutes later looking shell-shocked and speechless, but nevertheless pleased that she'd been promised a backstage pass and a meet up with Nikki Sixx that evening. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Here, Nikki shares those diary entries - some poetic, some scatterbrained, some bizarre - and reflects on that time. Any hardcore Crue fans will know or have heard about the majority of antics/situations that arise within the pages. It makes me glad that my teenage rock bands never made it out of the little league - I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have handled it well.

Após este período, o valor da mensalidade será cobrado automaticamente, por meio do método de pagamento cadastrado.As the creative force behind a multitude of projects, Sixx never stops inventing new ways to express himself and continues to unveil his unusual points of view with new projects. Uma mensagem por e-mail será enviada antes do término do período gratuito, que pode ser cancelado a qualquer momento. This book contains the contents of journals that Nikki wrote while battling severe heroin addiction.

Here, Nikki shares the diary entries—some poetic, some scatterbrained, some bizarre—of those dark times. He spent days - sometimes alone, sometimes with other addicts, friends, and lovers - in a coke and heroin-fueled daze.The book itself is just like heroin but in a good way - it's so addictive, funny, heartbreaking and the most important thing of all is it shows you the truth about a world most of us dream about. If Motley Crue's riotous tome The Dirt didn't leave its readers feeling grimy enough, then Sixx's collection of diary scraps, rueful recollections and hideously visceral illustrations most surely will' London Lite 20/11 4 stars 'The Heroin Diaries is a bit of a mess, like Sixx' Celebrity Memoirs of the Year, Daily Telegraph 24/11 'The diary, while being entertaining, enlightening and (depressingly) funny, is also brutally honest and sordid and does nothing to glorify drugs and their use' Press Association syndicated review: Glasgow Evening Times 10/11 'The diary, whilst being entertaining, enlightening and (depressingly) funny, is also brutally honest and sordid and does nothing to glorify drugs and their use' Wales on Sunday 11/11 'Motely Crue's bassist Mikki Sixx wants to tell us about his annus horribilis of 1987 - the year his skin nearly rotted off thanks to heroin, cocaine and serious emotional pain, man.

Magazine 27/10 I've just finsihed reading the book The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx and all I've got to say to whoever will get to read this is READ THIS! 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. No dirty, shameful detail missed out (or, if they have been, then they must be very dark indeed, as the stuff which made it into the book is jaw-droopingly awful).By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

With commentaries by Sixx and a motley crew of other characters, from Alice Cooper to Sixx’s mother and of course the other band members. It's not a cute book, it's not something you will talk about with your parents-in-law for example, but it's definitely something you will never forget 'Occasionally incoherent, sometimes bleakly hilarious, The Heroin Diaries is saved by judicious editing and a supporting cast that includes his band, Slash and Tom Zutaut (who suffered the ignominy of having to watch Sixx have sex with his date), as well as notes from Sixx deriding his younger, heroin-addled self' Classic Rock magazine November issue 'The Motley Crue founder tells Sally Beck about his years of heroin addiction, his parenting skills and why Tommy Lee is out of the band' The Chat, London Paper 7/11 '"Vanity" - as in Vanity 6, Sixx's drug buddy and lover during the period he kept his diary, from Christams '86 to his near-fatal December '87 overdose - "asked me to come over to play. He spent days—sometimes alone, sometimes with other addicts, friends, and lovers—in a coke- and heroin-fueled daze. Set against the frenzied world of heavy metal superstardom, the co-founder of legendary Motley Crue offers an unflinching and gripping look at his own descent into drug addiction. I understand I can change my preference through my account settings or unsubscribe directly from any marketing communications at any time.Also it is a perfect example that shows that one can overcome an addiction and start a new chapter in one's life. into unreadable dross' Ben Thompson, Independent on Sunday 16/12 'Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx has stared death in the face so many times he even thought he was a god. Consiglio la lettura anche perché gli introiti vanno tutti in beneficienza ad un'associazione che si occupa di portare i ragazzi via dalla strada e dalla droga. M., a two-time New York Times bestselling author of The Heroin Diaries and This Is Gonna Hurt, co-founder of rock couture fashion line Royal Underground, philanthropist, photographer, and host of the nationally syndicated radio show Sixx Sense, which airs on over 115 stations, and The Side Show Countdown. As a fan of Motley Crue, even though I knew that they were struggling with drugs, I had no idea that Nikki was going through so much personal pain on his own.