Ups and Downs in the Rock World: The Story of Nikki Sixx 🔥

Nikki Sixx, born Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna Jr. on December 11, 1958, is an American musician. He is best known as a co-founder, bassist, and primary songwriter for the band Mötley Crüe, and is the only member who has remained throughout the band's entire history. Feranna grew up listening to music from Deep Purple, Harry Nilsson, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Elton John, Queen, and Black Sabbath. His youth was tumultuous; he became a rebellious teenager, engaging in criminal activities such as breaking into neighbors’ houses and shoplifting, eventually getting expelled from school for involvement in drug trafficking. His grandparents then sent him to live with his mother in Seattle. There, Feranna stayed briefly and began learning to play bass guitar, purchasing his first instrument with money earned from selling stolen guitars.
At the age of 17, Feranna moved to Los Angeles and worked hard at various jobs like in a liquor store and selling vacuum cleaners over the phone while attending band auditions. He then joined the band Sister led by Blackie Lawless after responding to an ad in The Recycler for a bass player. However, after recording a demo, Feranna and his bandmate Lizzie Gray were fired from Sister.In 1981, Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee founded Mötley Crüe. They later recruited guitarist Mick Mars through an ad in a local newspaper, along with singer Vince Neil, who knew Lee from school. The band independently released their debut album, Too Fast for Love, in November 1981 under their own label, Leathür Records. After signing with Elektra Records, they reissued the same album. Success came with the album Shout at the Devil, propelling the band to national fame. Throughout the 1980s, they released three more albums: Theater of Pain in 1985, Girls, Girls, Girls in 1987, and Dr. Feelgood in 1989, which became their most successful album.
During his time with Mötley Crüe, Sixx fell into heroin addiction. On December 23, 1987, he overdosed on heroin and was reported to have experienced clinical death for two minutes before paramedics successfully revived him with two syringes full of adrenaline.In 1999, Tommy Lee left the band to form Methods of Mayhem. He was replaced by former Ozzy Osbourne drummer, Randy Castillo. Afterward, the group took a hiatus before reuniting in 2004, when Sixx admitted to being sober. In a 2001 autobiography titled The Dirt, the band was marketed as “the world’s most famous rock band.”
In 2006, Mötley Crüe completed a reunion tour featuring all four original members, and later embarked on a co-headlining tour with Aerosmith known as The Route of All Evil. On June 24, 2008, Mötley Crüe released their ninth studio album, Saints of Los Angeles, where Sixx was credited as a writer or co-writer on all songs.
In September 2007, Sixx released a book titled “The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star,” which contains his journal entries from 1986 and 1987 (when his heroin addiction reached its most dangerous point). Co-written with British journalist Ian Gittins, the book provides a contemporary perspective from bandmates, friends, former lovers, business associates, and family members as they respond to specific parts of the journal.
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