Mötley Crüe co-founder Nikki Sixx will tell the story of his life in a new memoir, Rolling Stone reports.
The heavy metal bassist’s The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx will be published by Hachette this fall. The press says the book chronicles Sixx’s “fascinating journey from irrepressible Idaho farmboy to the man who formed the revolutionary rock group Mötley Crüe.”
“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,” Hachette says. “With hard work, passion, and some luck, the vision manifested in reality—and this is a profound true story [of] finding identity, of how Frank Feranna became Nikki Sixx. And it’s a road map to the ways you can overcome anything, and achieve all of your goals, if only you put your mind to it.”
Sixx was a member of the heavy metal bands Sister and London before founding Mötley Crüe with drummer Tommy Lee. The band shot to fame in the 1980s on the strength of singles like “Smokin’ in the Boys Room,” “Girls, Girls, Girls,” and “Dr. Feelgood.”
Sixx is the author of a previous memoir, titled The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star. The First 21 is slated for publication on Oct. 19.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
