Nikki Sixx

The Profile

American musician, founding bassist and primary songwriter of Mötley Crüe; author of The Heroin Diaries, a diary-style memoir about addiction and recovery.

Nikki Sixx is publicly known as the founding bassist of Mötley Crüe and as the author of The Heroin Diaries, which documents day-by-day his heroin addiction, excesses and a near-fatal overdose around the era of the 1987 album Girls! Girls! Girls! The review on DeBaser emphasizes the book's diary format and its mix of tragic, human and sometimes entertaining episodes.

The available review treats The Heroin Diaries as a compelling diary-style memoir documenting Nikki Sixx's addiction and near-fatal overdose. It highlights the contrast between public success (Girls! Girls! Girls!) and private self-destruction. The review finds the book human, touching and sometimes entertaining.