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

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and BAM - at 29 years old he was overdosing and left for dead in a London dumpster' The London Paper 6/11 '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.

This book is an insight into the life of motley crue bassist (Now formerly of motley crue) at a dark time in his life. 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. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.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. 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.

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. Brutally honest, utterly riveting, and surprisingly 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.After his near death his diaries record his battle with himself and document his rehabilitation finally getting the help he needed. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In honor of the ten-year anniversary of The Heroin Diaries, Nikki Sixx’s definitive and bestselling memoir on drug addiction is reissued with exclusive new content. He spent days - sometimes alone, sometimes with other addicts, friends, and lovers - in a coke and heroin-fueled daze. 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.