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

by Nikki Sixx

Overview

This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx is part photo, part journal—but all Nikki Sixx. It is a collection of compelling photography and stories that capture the rage, love, optimism, darkness, and determination that shape his work. Combining the raw authenticity that defined his New York Times bestseller The Heroin Diaries with a photographic journey, This Is Gonna Hurt chronicles Sixx's experiences—from his early years filled with toxic waste, to his success with Motley Crue, to his near death from an OD and his eventual rebirth through music, photography, and love.

Love story, social commentary, family memoir, This Is Gonna Hurt offers the compelling insights of an artist and a man struggling to survive, connect, and find a happy ending—a search that fuels Sixx's being.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062061898
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	04/12/2011
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	258,650
File size:	22 MB
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About the Author

Born Frank Feranna, Nikki Sixx grew up in Seattle and moved to Los Angeles at the age of seventeen. There, in 1981, he became the bassist for Mötley Crüe, the legendary rock band he started with Vince Neil, Mick Mars, and Tommy Lee. Today he is the New York Times bestselling author of The Heroin Diaries and This Is Gonna Hurt, and a coauthor of the Mötley Crüe book, The Dirt. Nikki Sixx is also a nationally syndicated radio host of Sixx Sense, writer, artist, photographer, and still loyal member of the Crüe.

Editorial Reviews

"Photo sessions for me are like injections of life. I pace back and back forth impatiently, like a man with a machine gun, and trust me when I say I have an itchy trigger finger.....Sucking up my ego and picking up my cameras, I was off to the crack district. It took 10 minutes to get there from our five-star hotel and three hours to get Kimo to allow me to enter the most dangerous alley in Vancouver.... "I had once rented a whole brothel in Thailand just to make some photographs." Nikki Sixx's This Is Gonna Hurt is part pictorial, part journal, and, in every way, a testament to the dark side sensitivity of the legendary Mötley Crüe bassist. Raw, powerful, and strangely piercing.

"If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt," says Mötley Crüe's Sixx, author of the New York Times best-selling The Heroin Diaries. Here Sixx reflects on his postaddiction commitment to music, photography, and family. The 150,000-copy first printing says it all.

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