Mötley Crüe’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 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 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.
I finished this book over the holidays in no time as it is written in a very easy going way that just flows despite a very dark subject matter in Nikki Sixx life. Clearly the man is quite sharp, but yet he engage himself in a classic rock n roll lifestyle in a constant heavy drug fueled state of mind which makes you wonder how he actually got out of it. I wanted to read about Sixx relation with Vanity (Canadian singer, model, and actress. Known for her image as a sex symbol in the 1980s, she became an evangelist and renounced her career as Vanity in the 1990. She passed away in 2016, from kidney failure. Rest in peace) during those years, as I was deeply smitten by her beauty back in the 80s and let´s say none of them are shown in a very good light in this book. Both comes out as paranoid horrible drug monsters. It´s a tragic book to read and Nikki Sixx should be grateful that he still is alive despite the fact that he did everything he could to not be alive. He even survived about half a dozen times of overdoses and was reportedly declared clinically dead for two minutes on one occasion. Nikki Sixx is also portrayed himself as a very difficult person to be around and his shenanigans towards band members, women, friends etc are not very nice in any way. Yet, he got away with so many things during the worst years. When reading “Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star” you don´t really feel sorry for him, he put himself in this rock n roll circus and it just feels sad and tragic. However, it´s an honest book, he is not sugarcoating his life. I´ll give him cred for that.
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