Join Amazon Prime and get unlimited Free One-Day Delivery. Already a member? Sign in.

 

or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
   
More Buying Choices
32 used & new from £5.10
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
 
 
Share your own customer images
Search inside this book

The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star (Paperback)

by Nikki Sixx (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.99 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
You Save: £4.00 (40%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.

Want guaranteed delivery by Wednesday, July 15? Choose Express delivery at checkout. See Details
27 new from £5.22 5 used from £5.10
Other Editions: RRP: Our Price: Other Offers:
Hardcover £17.99 £11.69 30 used & new from £6.49
Paperback 10 used & new from £11.29

Frequently Bought Together

The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star + The Dirt - Motley Crue: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band + Slash: The Autobiography
Price For All Three: £20.83

Show availability and shipping details

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Slash: The Autobiography

Slash: The Autobiography

by Slash
4.6 out of 5 stars (52)  £4.85
The Dirt - Motley Crue: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

The Dirt - Motley Crue: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

by Neil Strauss
4.9 out of 5 stars (53)  £9.99
The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack

The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack

~ Sixx: A.M.
5.0 out of 5 stars (12)  £4.98
Tommyland

Tommyland

by Tommy Lee
4.5 out of 5 stars (8)  £6.39
White Line Fever: Lemmy - The Autobiography

White Line Fever: Lemmy - The Autobiography

by Lemmy Kilmister
4.6 out of 5 stars (19)  £4.79
› Explore similar items

Product details

  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Pocket Books (1 Sep 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1847392067
  • ISBN-13: 978-1847392060
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,226 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

    Popular in these categories:

    #2 in  Books > Biography > Film, Television & Music > Music > Heavy Metal
    #39 in  Books > Music, Stage & Screen > Music > Styles > Rock & Pop

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Product Description

Product Description
Set against the frenzied world of heavy metal superstardom, the co-founder of legendary Motley Crue offers an unflinching and gripping look at his own descent into drug addiction. When Motley Crue were at the height of their fame, there wasn't a drug Nikki Sixx wouldn't do. He spent days - sometimes alone, sometimes with others addicts, friends and lovers - in a coke- and heroin-fuelled daze. THE HEROIN DIARIES reveals Nikki's personal diary entries alongside commentary from the people who know Nikki best including band mates Tommy, Vince and Mick. The book is a candid look at a nightmare come true: a punishing heroin addiction that brought Nikki to the edge of losing his talent, his career, his family and finally to a near-fatal overdose which left him clinically dead for a few minutes before being revived. Brutally honest, utterly riveting and shockingly moving, THE HEROIN DIARIES follows Nikki during the year he plunged to rock bottom and his courageous decision to pick himself up and start living again.
Inside This Book (Learn More)
Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Back Cover
Search inside this book:

Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
Check the boxes next to the tags you consider relevant or enter your own tags in the field below
(2)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(1)
See all 7 tags...

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?

The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
73% buy the item featured on this page:
The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star 4.7 out of 5 stars (29)
£5.99
The Dirt - Motley Crue: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
11% buy
The Dirt - Motley Crue: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band 4.9 out of 5 stars (53)
£9.99
Slash: The Autobiography
9% buy
Slash: The Autobiography 4.6 out of 5 stars (52)
£4.85
I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
4% buy
I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie 4.2 out of 5 stars (9)
£6.99
Explore similar items
 

Customer Reviews

29 Reviews
5 star:
 (22)
4 star:
 (4)
3 star:
 (3)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
4.7 out of 5 stars (29 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Compulsive reading, in a car crash kind of way..., 30 Jun 2008
By Matt_K (St Albans, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star (Hardcover)
The bulk of the text is Nikki's actual journal entries taken from a year of a very dark time in his life, with various Motley Crue alumni interjecting with their opinions and viewpoints. It makes for compulsive but often quite uncomfortable reading, not so much because of the casual way he talks you through horrific experiences of hard drug addiction but because of things he did...I mean, I've always thought Nikki Sixx is one of the coolest people in rock/metal/whatever, but really you just find yourself putting the book down at times and thinking "this guy was a complete d*ckhead!"...the modern-day Sixx says as much himself towards the end of the book. He seems to have undergone a dramatic personality change following the events described in this book, thankfully.

It's not unlike reading Frey's "A Million Little Pieces", there's something horribly fascinating about it. I was very glad that there's some kind of redemption at the end of it all - Sixx got married (several times) and has a family that he obviously thinks the world of, and even mended fences with his mother and his long-suffering Crue bandmates.

I think I'll go & check out the Sixx AM soundtrack...
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars INJECT THIS, 16 May 2009
By Brian O'connell - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
This book should be given to every person who thinks that the life of a rock star and world of drugs is a fun place because these diaries paint a very bleak picture that will shatter all those illusions.

The Heroin Diaries covers about one year in the life of Nikki Sixx around the time of the writing, recording and touring of the 'Girls Girls Girls' album and at a time when his band Motley Crue were one of the biggest acts in the United States. A couple of years ago Sixx found his written diary that he had kept for a year and would record random thoughts and what he had gotten up to (if he even bothered to get up) from December 1986 to just after his death in December 1987 (he was brought back to life with an andrenalin shot).

It makes fascinating reading and is all the better for having a whole list of contributors, from his band mates, friends, family, girlfriend, dealers, suppliers and hanger ons. They all write an account after each daily event and will give their side of the story.

It has some amazing moments like Slash coming over to his house getting high and pissing in his bed which became a regular event.

Nikki Sixx isn't the first rock and roll star to have written a book about drug addiction be his is sure one of the best and you will end up not being able to put it down, you will become addicted!
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
13 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This is unbelievable..., 6 Oct 2007
By sixx6six (Derbyshire) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star (Hardcover)
This is one of the only things that i own that i would run into a burning building to save...along with The Dirt and On The Road by Kerouac, it is, for me, the best thing i have ever read.
If you've ever wondered what it's like to be on drugs, you now need not chemically experiment, because this book is graphic...and it's dirty, suicidal, hilarious and heartbreaking...and a huge relief that one of the most incredible performers in rock lived through it...
I loved Nikki Sixx before i read this...and now I think i'm a different person for reading it...it goes into a lot of detail and deep thought about his childhood, lovers (chicks=trouble, apparently), bandmates and music...it's fascinating to see someone's mind working through all the stuff he went through...and even better that they're true diary entries of exactly what he felt at the time...at the heart of all the bravado and glitter is a ridiculously intelligent, complex person who probably just helped hundreds of people just by publishing this...
You won't put it down.

(and buy the soundtrack...it's like a tim burton movie on crack in the best way!)
Comment Comment (1) | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Buy it...
When the book arrived I was surprised at the quality of it. It's not your average paperback, it has lovely glossy pages and the illustration and the way it's set out in typed... Read more
Published 11 days ago by Claire Jones

5.0 out of 5 stars Heroin Diaries
I haven't quite finished this book (normally read it when sat i the Doctors waiting room )but its a real vision of the hard living of a rock star where everything is on offer and... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Kimberley T. Eden

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent read
This book gives a great insight into the life of a rock star, and shows in great detail what a mess his life was in. Read more
Published 1 month ago by R. N. Hicks

4.0 out of 5 stars Must Have for Fans of Motley Crue
This is a beautifully presented books, lush with photographs, dense and vivid illustrations and well thought out designs it would sit comfortably with high end coffee table books... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mrs. K. A. Wheatley

5.0 out of 5 stars nikki sixx the heroin diaries
this book is not for the faint hearted, it describes an individual with the means of sustaining drug and alcohol addictions, but who has a hole running through the middle of his... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mrs. Claire L. Hylans

5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing read
The Heroin Diaries is a tragically honest portrayal of Nikki Sixx's life and mind. Though a lot of parts in this book are amusing, you can sense the darkness beneath each event. Read more
Published 5 months ago by P.M

5.0 out of 5 stars I have no respect for drug-addicts but.....
As my title says, I really don't have any respect for people who are addicted to horrible drugs like heroin or crack etc etc, but once I sat down to read this book, I could not... Read more
Published 5 months ago by MotorBeth

5.0 out of 5 stars The road to hell & back
Amazing book. Nikki was one of my heroes growing up so this book was a must read. It really shows the lows of addiction in a stark light and how Nikki's upbringing really didn't... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Jaymz Dead

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book (needlephobes use caution)
The Heroin Diaries is more than a diary of Nikki Sixx life, it is an insight into his mind.
The pages are illustrated with doodles, and drawings that match his on/off love... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Araldia

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book
This is a book i was unable to put down once i began to read it. It is a sad, funny and scary read of a rock star totally out of control. Read more
Published 9 months ago by S. Ward

Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

 Beta (What's this?)
This product's forum (0 discussions)
  Discussion Replies Latest Post
  No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
  [Cancel]


Active discussions in related forums
   
Related forums

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Feedback

Fun for Everyone

Christmas Gifts
Achieve over 15,000 RPM with our great range of Powerballs.

›Shop the Powerball store

  

More From Ian Gittins

"Top of the...

"Top of the Pops": Mishaps, Miming...

Top of the Pops began life as a rebellious teenager, but unfortunately... Read more
£12.99 £8.44

 

Boys Smell

Lynx Africa Body Spray and After Shave Gift set
But we make sure they smell good...

›Discover male grooming at Amazon.co.uk

  

Treat Someone

Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificates--available in any amount from £5 to £500 With an Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificate, you can get them what they want (even if you don't know what that is).

›Learn more about Gift Certificates

  
Ad

Where's My Stuff?

Delivery and Returns

Need Help?

Your Recent History

  (What's this?)
You have no recently viewed items or searches.

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.

Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session.
Continue Shopping: Top Sellers

amazon.co.uk Amazon Home
International Sites:  United States  |  Germany  |  France  |  Japan  |  Canada  |  China
Business Programs: Sell on Amazon  |  Fulfilment by Amazon  |  Join Associates  |  Join Advantage
Customer Service  |  Help  |  View Basket  |  Your Account
About Amazon.co.uk  |  Careers at Amazon
Conditions of Use & Sale |  Privacy Notice  © 1996-2009, Amazon.com, Inc. and its affiliates