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Rock-and-roll icon and three-time bestselling author Nikki Sixx tells hisorigin story: how Frank Feranna becameNikki Sixx, chronicling his fascinatingjourney from irrepressible Idaho farmboy to the man who formed the revolutionary rock group Mtley Cre.
Nikki Sixx is one of the most respected, recognizable, and entrepreneurial icons in the music industry. As the founder of Mtley Cre, 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 but deeply troubled. Frankie ended up living with his grandparents, bouncing from farm to farm and state to state. He was an all-American kidhunting, fishing, chasing girls, and playing footballbut 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 unclethe president of Capitol Recordsfor a short time. But there was no easy 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 Mtley Cre. Turning down an offer to join Randy Rhoadss 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 realityand this is a profound true story finding identity, of how Frank Feranna became Nikki Sixx. It's also a road map to the ways you can overcome anything, and achieve all of your goals, if only you put your mind to it.

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The Dirt Confessions of the Worlds Most Notorious Rock Band with Tommy Lee - photo 1

The Dirt:
Confessions of the Worlds Most Notorious Rock Band with Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil, and Neil Strauss

The Heroin Diaries:
A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

This Is Gonna Hurt:
Music, Photography, and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx

Copyright 2021 by Nikki Sixx Cover design by Richard Ljoenes Cover photographs - photo 2

Copyright 2021 by Nikki Sixx

Cover design by Richard Ljoenes

Cover photographs: Nikki in 1989 Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images; the Sunset Strip at night Scott Robinson/ Los Angeles Times ; concert flyer from the collection of Max and Sherri Mazursky;Frank Feranna at seventeen or eighteen and Frank on Christmas Eve 1978 Angie Diehl; vinyl record Shutterstock; all other images courtesy of the author.

Cover copyright 2021 Hachette Book Group, Inc.

Endpaper design copyright Joe Lalich; endpaper art copyright United States Geological Survey

Photographs courtesy of the author with the following exceptions: In the first scrapbook, photograph of Susie Maddox and Frankie, courtesy of Susan Bond; photograph of Ramon and family with Deanna, courtesy of Ramon Rodriguez; Seattle photographs, courtesy of Richard Van Zandt. , courtesy of Ryan Dorgan. Map elements courtesy of the US Geological Survey. Elements of design throughout by Joe Lalich.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2021941036

ISBNs: 9780306923708 (hardcover), 9780306828393 (B&N Black Friday edition), 9780306828409 (B&N signed edition), 9780306828416 (signed edition), 9780306923692 (ebook)

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This book is for my family, so that you may better understand my heart, my dedication, my lust for life, and my love for you.

S pring in Los Angeles seventy-something degrees and my agent Dennis Arfa - photo 3

S pring in Los Angeles, seventy-something degrees, and my agent, Dennis Arfa, had taken me out to the ball game. The Dodgers were up in the seventh. Dennis was working on his second hot dog with not a care in the world. So naturally, in the snarkiest voice I could muster, I asked him, Why didnt we ever play Dodger Stadium?

Ive been working with Dennis for many a year, and he knows the places weve played as well as we do: Budokan, Wembley, Red Rocks, Madison Square Garden. Mtley Cres opened for the Rolling Stones. Weve packed every outdoor shed weve been booked into and headlined outdoor festivals around the world. In Los Angeles, weve filled the Hollywood Bowl and sold out the Staples Center. But Dodger Stadium? The only time Id set foot on the field was to throw out a ceremonial first pitch.

I guess the reason would have to be your bright idea to break up the band.

Both of us burst out laughing.

If you guys ever change your minds, Dennis said, just call me.

A few hours later, I woke my wife up.

If we ever get back together, were going to play Dodger Stadium.

Courtneys used to me waking her up after midnight. Most of the time, shell indulge me. This time she said, But, baby, the band signed a contract.

This was true. A few years earlier, Mtley Cre signed a secession of touring contractand Courtney knows that I am a man of my word. But Im also a man whos ruled by his passions.

Ill think of something, I said.

At the time, I was working on The Dirt a movie based on the book about Mtley. The book had been a major best seller, and so far the movie was turning out better than any of us would have guessed. Tommy was being portrayed by Machine Gun Kelly. An English actor named Douglas Booth was playing me. So Booth was doing his best Nikki Sixx while the real Nikki Sixx was taking meetings with Live Nation, Apple, Spotify, radio stations, and social media platforms to promote the film. Id show scenes and snippets from the movie, share some of my own memories, and play the new song Id written.

Actually, I had several new songswell-formed ideas that all seemed exciting. I had been woodshedding with John 5, a guitarist whos played with everyone from k.d. lang to Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie, and with Sahaj Ticotin, a musician whod set a record for holding a note longer than any other male singer. We had made a bunch of demos, and I played them all for Bob Rock, whod helped make Mtley Cres biggest album, Dr. Feelgood , in 1989. Hard to believe thirty years had gone by. But when Bob heard the tracks, he said, These sound like classic Mtley Cre songs. The song I had written for the credit sequence reminded Bob of Kickstart My Hearthigh praise from the man whod produced the original.

We have the songs, I told Courtney.

The songsthe musicis where it all starts. Without the music, thered be no club tours. No theater tours. No arenas. No private jets getting us to the arenas. Thered be no money, no platinum records to hang on the studio walls. For Mtley, there would have been none of the love and the hate or the death and destruction that come with the lifestyle. Between the four of us, weve got 160 years worth of memories to draw on. If this were a VHI special, wed all say in unison, Some of the best weve had! Some of the worst! And not many that we would take back!

Wed all be telling the truth. As a kid, I drew bands in my notebooks. Four complementary characters with superhero-like powers on drums, bass, guitar, and vocals. Those guys always looked cool and always had the best songs, played them well, and the lyrics had something to say. In my mind, I was building a new kind of monster.

Those bands were Mtley in embryo form. All I had to do was move out to Los Angeles, learn to play bass, and find three other musicians who saw the world the way I did. In the end, thats what happened. Of course, it took a ton of hard work, and not just the work youd imagine. On top of writing, rehearsing, working on our look and stage show, and playingand playing, and playingthere were the constant demands, obligations the industry made: junkets. Interviews with journalists who drank our booze, did our drugs, and then turned around and slagged us in their magazines. It took years of band therapy to keep us together and remind us of all the reasons we had to keep going.

But I had my own family to look after too. At the time, Courtney was pregnant. Our daughter, Ruby, was due in July. Touring isnt the easiest thing to do when youve got small kids at home. Over the years, I missed more holidays than I could count. I missed birthdays. There were PTA meetings I wanted to go to, but you cant hop a flight from Japan when the rest of the bands on their way to Australia.

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