Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx’s new book, The first 21: How I became Nikki Sixx, landed on the New York Times bestseller list, giving the rocker his fourth best-selling songwriter.
Motley Crue founder and Sixx: AM musician once wrote the memoirs of 2007 Heroin diaries and the 2011 photo book It will hurt. With his comrades from the group Crue, he co-wrote the years 2002 The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Famous Rock Band, which served as the basis for the group’s 2019 biopic Dirtiness.
These three books were New York Times bestsellers, and now The first 21 joined them, as Blabbermouth underline. This week, the new Sixx book debuted at # 8 on NYT’s hardcover fiction list and n ° 11 on non-fiction combined print and e-book.
Last month, The first 21 at the top of Amazon’s ranking for rock music books. He was also in Amazon’s Top 40 Biographies and Memoirs.
The first 21 recounts the first 21 years of Sixx’s life, when he still bore his birth name, Frank Feranna. He takes readers on his journey from growing up in Idaho to being a rock star.
“You’ve heard the stories of excess and debauchery,” Sixx said earlier this year. “All the peaks and valleys that have accompanied rock ‘n’ roll fame.”
The first 21 covers the story you haven’t heard, he explained. This is the intimate and personal story of how an innocent Idaho farm boy with a burning dream and desire – for music, for love and for fame – became the infamous Nikki Sixx. I believe our first 21 years have a lot to do with shaping who we become. These are my first 21, and I hope they delight you and inspire you to invest in your biggest dreams. “
The book arrived on October 19 from Hachette. Get it at thefirst21book.com.
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