The Heroin Diaries
A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
Will be published approx. on 24. October 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
512 pages
978-1-4711-7123-9 (ISBN)
Description
10th anniversary edition with exclusive new content.
Set against the frenzied world of heavy metal superstardom, the co-founder of legendary Moetley Cruee offers an unflinching and gripping look at his own descent into drug addiction.
When Moetley Cruee were at the height of their fame, there wasn't a drug Nikki Sixx wouldn't do. He spent days - sometimes alone, sometimes with others addicts, friends and lovers - in a coke- and heroin-fuelled daze. THE HEROIN DIARIES reveals Nikki's personal diary entries alongside commentary from the people who know Nikki best including band mates Tommy, Vince and Mick. The book is a candid look at a nightmare come true: a punishing heroin addiction that brought Nikki to the edge of losing his talent, his career, his family and finally to a near-fatal overdose which left him clinically dead for a few minutes before being revived.
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.
'Harrowing ... required reading' Rolling Stone
'Heartbreaking ... The Heroin Diaries presents a new model for the rock bio' The New York Times
'A modern-day opera based on his time in hell' New York Post
'Addictive reading' Kerrang
'Lurid' Harp
Set against the frenzied world of heavy metal superstardom, the co-founder of legendary Moetley Cruee offers an unflinching and gripping look at his own descent into drug addiction.
When Moetley Cruee were at the height of their fame, there wasn't a drug Nikki Sixx wouldn't do. He spent days - sometimes alone, sometimes with others addicts, friends and lovers - in a coke- and heroin-fuelled daze. THE HEROIN DIARIES reveals Nikki's personal diary entries alongside commentary from the people who know Nikki best including band mates Tommy, Vince and Mick. The book is a candid look at a nightmare come true: a punishing heroin addiction that brought Nikki to the edge of losing his talent, his career, his family and finally to a near-fatal overdose which left him clinically dead for a few minutes before being revived.
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.
'Harrowing ... required reading' Rolling Stone
'Heartbreaking ... The Heroin Diaries presents a new model for the rock bio' The New York Times
'A modern-day opera based on his time in hell' New York Post
'Addictive reading' Kerrang
'Lurid' Harp
More details
Edition
Anniversary Edition, Ten Year
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
Special edition
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
723 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4711-7123-9 (9781471171239)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Sixx
Heroin Diaries
Book
10/2008
Simon Spotlight Entertainment
€38.53
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Person
Nikki Sixx was born Frank Feranna in California in 1958 and grew up in Seattle with his grandmother. He founded Motley Crue in 1981 with his friend Tommy Lee. Today, he is a family man who combines his musical career with work for his charity, Running Wild in the Night.