| Set against the frenzied world of heavy metal superstardom, the cofounder of the most legendary rock band of the eighties— Motley Crue —offers an unflinching and utterly gripping look at his own descent into drug addiction.
Few bands were as influential as Motley Crue in making the 1980s the heavy metal decade. Theirs is a cyclonic story of runaway success and its price, blending outrageous record sales and arena headline tours with smashed up cars, jail sentences, models, drugs, breakups, reunions and more breakups.
In his candid memoir, Nikki Sixx—Motley Crue’s bassist and main songwriter—recounts the band’s heyday. The Heroin Diaries takes readers along on one of the most breathless and harrowing roller coaster rides in the history of pop music. At its heart lies the author’s nightmare come true: a punishing heroin addiction that brought him and the band to the edge of losing much more than just their spot on the charts. Serving up snapshots of rock culture at its most manic, this insider’s look at triumph and tragedy is every bit as explosive as the musical odyssey it chronicles. This CD offers 13 tracks of original material as a soundtrack companion to the book.
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