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The heroin diaries : a year in the life of a shattered rock star
- Title
- The heroin diaries : a year in the life of a shattered rock star / Nikki Sixx with Ian Gittins.
- Author
- Sixx, Nikki, 1958-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Gallery Books, 2017.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Gittins, Ian
- Description
- 45 unnumbered pages, 465 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- The co-founder of the rock band Mötley Crüe presents a candid account of his own descent into the hell of drug addiction, describing the impact of heroin on his life and the band. In never-before-seen photos and exclusive new chapters, Nikki reflects on his decade of sobriety.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biography.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- A short medical dictionary -- A short alternative medical dictionary / with Dr. Lemuel Pillmeister -- Key players in these torrid tales (otherwise known as partners in crime) -- Ten years later -- Merry Christmas. Well, that's what people say at Christmas, right? -- One could say that I've been having a 10cc love affair -- When I'm losing my mind, the only thing that can save me is heroin -- Blood was spurting all over the closet ... and I was just slamming the drugs anyplace under my skin praying they would take the pain away -- Does my illness hang off of me like fucking smell? -- He asked to get on my knees and pray to God to lose this obsession with drugs -- Maybe having these dealers follow us is a bad idea -- A head-on collision was about to happen yet I was too stubborn to take a hint -- This has become the airport blowjob tour -- Pretty good show considering the squirrels and ice cream trucks -- I'm over the drugs and I know they're over me -- Drugs make it better -- drugs make it worse -- P.S. I didn't tell anybody but I scored a balloon of Persian -- He says if you don't change your ways you won't live until the end of the year -- That's not very rock n' roll, is it? -- More posthumous adventures.
- Call Number
- JND 18-7
- ISBN
- 1501187546
- 9781501187544
- LCCN
- 2017562622
- OCLC
- 992570454
- Author
- Sixx, Nikki, 1958- author.
- Title
- The heroin diaries : a year in the life of a shattered rock star / Nikki Sixx with Ian Gittins.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Gallery Books, 2017.
- Edition
- Ten year anniversary edition.Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Gittins, Ian, author.
- Research Call Number
- JND 18-7