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Nikki Sixx

    December 10, 1958

    Nikki Sixx is a prominent musician and songwriter, best known as the bassist and primary lyricist for the heavy metal legends Mötley Crüe. His musical journey extends beyond this iconic band, with contributions to various other projects showcasing his versatility. Beyond his instrumental prowess, Sixx is also an accomplished author and photographer, reflecting a broad artistic sensibility. His creative output is deeply intertwined with the energetic and often provocative ethos of rock music.

    Nikki Sixx
    The First 21
    Child X
    This Is Gonna Hurt
    The Heroin Diaries
    The Dirt
    The Heroin Diaries
    • 2024

      An engaging, solutions-oriented look at how cities and nations can better navigate issues of innovation and inequality. From San Francisco to Shanghai, many of the world's most innovative places are highly unequal, with the benefits going to a small few. Rather than simply asking how we can create more high-tech cities and nations, Innovation for the Masses focuses on places that manage to foster innovation while also delivering the benefits more widely and equally. In this book, economist Neil Lee draws on case studies of Taiwan, Sweden, Austria, and Switzerland to set out how innovation can be successfully balanced toward equity. As high-tech economies around the world suffer from polarized labor markets and political realities that lock in these problems, this book looks beyond the United States to other models of distributing a leading-edge economy. Lee emphasizes the active role of the state in creating frameworks to ensure that benefits are broadly shared, and he reveals that strong policies for innovation and shared prosperity are mutually reinforcing. Ultimately, Innovation for the Masses provides a vital window into alternative models that prioritize equity, the roadblocks these models present, and what other countries can learn from them going forward.

      Innovation for the Masses
    • 2023

      The narrative explores the transformative journey of Frank Feranna as he evolves into rock legend Nikki Sixx. It details his upbringing as an adventurous farmboy in Idaho, leading to the creation of Mötley Crüe, a band that changed the landscape of rock music. Through personal anecdotes and reflections, Sixx reveals the challenges and triumphs that shaped his identity and career in the music industry.

      The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx [Deluxe Edition]
    • 2023

      Peaky Blinders meets Moll Flanders. London, 1725. Criminal gangs rule everyday life on the streets, and an organised police force is decades away.

      The Thief Taker
    • 2021

      Nikki Sixx is one of the most respected, recognisable, and entrepreneurial icons in the music industry. As the founder of Motley Crue who is now in his twenty-first year of sobriety, Sixx is incredibly passionate about his craft and wonderfully open about his life in rock and roll, and as a person of the world. Born Franklin Carlton Feranna on December 11, 1958, young Frankie was abandoned by his father and partly raised by his mother, a woman who was ahead of her time in some ways and deeply troubled in others. Frankie ended up living with his grandparents, bouncing from farm to farm and state to state. He was an all-American kid - hunting, fishing, chasing girls, and playing football - but underneath it all, there was a burning desire for more, and that more was music. He eventually took a Greyhound bound for Hollywood. In Los Angeles, Frank lived with his aunt and his uncle - the president of Capitol Records. But there was no short path to the top. He was soon on his own. There were dead-end jobs: dipping circuit boards, clerking at liquor and record stores, selling used light bulbs, and hustling to survive. But at night, Frank honed his craft, joining Sister, a band formed by fellow hard-rock veteran Blackie Lawless, and formed a group of his own: London, the precursor of Motley Crue. Turning down an offer to join Randy Rhoads' band, Frank changed his name to Nikki London, Nikki Nine, and, finally, Nikki Sixx. Like Huck Finn with a stolen guitar, he had a vision: a group that combined punk, glam, and hard rock into the biggest, most theatrical and irresistible package the world had ever seen. With hard work, passion, and some luck, the vision manifested in reality - and this is a profound true story finding identity, of how Frank Feranna became Nikki Sixx. And it's a road map to the ways you can overcome anything, and achieve all of your goals, if only you put your mind to it

      The First 21
    • 2020

      Child X

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      It is 1999 and the glorious Millennium is approaching. Ray is a struggling private investigator and compulsivegambler whose debt has spiralled out of control. His violent creditors have run out of patience. A retiredgangster offers to square his debt if he tracks a man down.

      Child X
    • 2017

      The Heroin Diaries

      A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star - Ten Year Anniversary Edition

      • 512 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      10th anniversary edition with exclusive new content. Set against the frenzied world of heavy metal superstardom, the co-founder of legendary Moetley Crue offers an unflinching and gripping look at his own descent into drug addiction. When Moetley Crue 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.

      The Heroin Diaries
    • 2017

      The Heroin Diaries

      Ten Year Anniversary Edition

      • 512 pages
      • 18 hours of reading
      4.5(392)Add rating

      The shocking, gripping, and at times darkly hilarious bestselling memoir of Nikki Sixx’s yearlong war with a vicious heroin addiction, featuring exclusive new content. When Mötley Crüe 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 the diary entries—some poetic, some scatterbrained, some bizarre—of those dark times. 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 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.

      The Heroin Diaries
    • 2011

      The Dirt

      • 448 pages
      • 16 hours of reading
      4.5(108)Add rating

      Motley Crue's bestselling The Dirt - penned with collaborator extraordinaire Neil Strauss - set a new bar for rock 'n' roll memoirs. This book covers various topics on Motley Crue - the voice of a barely pubescent Generation X, the anointed high priests of backward-masking pentagram rock, and the creators of MTV's first power ballad.

      The Dirt
    • 2011

      This Is Gonna Hurt

      Music, Photography and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      4.2(4448)Add rating

      The book offers a vivid exploration of Nikki Sixx's life through a blend of striking photography and personal narratives. It reflects on his journey from a troubled childhood to the heights of fame with Mötley Crüe, including his struggles with addiction and his path to recovery. The collection captures the complex emotions of rage, love, and determination that have influenced his artistic expression, providing an intimate glimpse into the experiences that shaped his identity and work.

      This Is Gonna Hurt