Product Description

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. When Motley 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9173 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Customer Reviews

Compulsive reading, in a car crash kind of way...
The bulk of the text is Nikki's actual journal entries taken from a year of a very dark time in his life, with various Motley Crue alumni interjecting with their opinions and viewpoints. It makes for compulsive but often quite uncomfortable reading, not so much because of the casual way he talks you through horrific experiences of hard drug addiction but because of things he did...I mean, I've always thought Nikki Sixx is one of the coolest people in rock/metal/whatever, but really you just find yourself putting the book down at times and thinking "this guy was a complete d*ckhead!"...the modern-day Sixx says as much himself towards the end of the book. He seems to have undergone a dramatic personality change following the events described in this book, thankfully.

It's not unlike reading Frey's "A Million Little Pieces", there's something horribly fascinating about it. I was very glad that there's some kind of redemption at the end of it all - Sixx got married (several times) and has a family that he obviously thinks the world of, and even mended fences with his mother and his long-suffering Crue bandmates.

I think I'll go & check out the Sixx AM soundtrack...

INJECT THIS
This book should be given to every person who thinks that the life of a rock star and world of drugs is a fun place because these diaries paint a very bleak picture that will shatter all those illusions.

The Heroin Diaries covers about one year in the life of Nikki Sixx around the time of the writing, recording and touring of the 'Girls Girls Girls' album and at a time when his band Motley Crue were one of the biggest acts in the United States. A couple of years ago Sixx found his written diary that he had kept for a year and would record random thoughts and what he had gotten up to (if he even bothered to get up) from December 1986 to just after his death in December 1987 (he was brought back to life with an andrenalin shot).

It makes fascinating reading and is all the better for having a whole list of contributors, from his band mates, friends, family, girlfriend, dealers, suppliers and hanger ons. They all write an account after each daily event and will give their side of the story.

It has some amazing moments like Slash coming over to his house getting high and pissing in his bed which became a regular event.

Nikki Sixx isn't the first rock and roll star to have written a book about drug addiction be his is sure one of the best and you will end up not being able to put it down, you will become addicted!

This is unbelievable...
This is one of the only things that i own that i would run into a burning building to save...along with The Dirt and On The Road by Kerouac, it is, for me, the best thing i have ever read.
If you've ever wondered what it's like to be on drugs, you now need not chemically experiment, because this book is graphic...and it's dirty, suicidal, hilarious and heartbreaking...and a huge relief that one of the most incredible performers in rock lived through it...
I loved Nikki Sixx before i read this...and now I think i'm a different person for reading it...it goes into a lot of detail and deep thought about his childhood, lovers (chicks=trouble, apparently), bandmates and music...it's fascinating to see someone's mind working through all the stuff he went through...and even better that they're true diary entries of exactly what he felt at the time...at the heart of all the bravado and glitter is a ridiculously intelligent, complex person who probably just helped hundreds of people just by publishing this...
You won't put it down.

(and buy the soundtrack...it's like a tim burton movie on crack in the best way!)