The dirt
Författare: Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx och Neil Strauss
Förlag: ReganBooks/HarperCollins
Antal sidor: 431
Utgivningsår: 2001
Whiskey and porn stars, hot rods and car crashes, black leather and high heels, overdoses and death. This is the life of Mötley Crüe, the heaviest drinking, hardest fighting, most oversexed and arrogant band in the world. Their unbelievable exploits are the stuff of rock 'n' roll legend.
They have dedicated an entire career to living life to its extreme, from the greatest fantasies to the darkest tragedies. Tommy married two international sex symbols; Vince killed a man and lost his daughter to cancer; Nikki overdosed, rose from the dead, and then OD'd again the next day; and Mick shot a woman and tried to hang his own brother. But that's just the beginning.
Here--directly from Nikki, Vince, Tommy and Mick--is the unexpurgated version of the whole glorious, gut-wrenching story. In these pages, published for the first time anywhere, are Tommy Lee's letters to Pamela Anderson from prison; Mick's confession to having an incurable disease that is slowly killing him; Vince's experience burying his own daughter--and the train wreck that his life became afterward; and Nikki's anguished struggle to deal with an entire life fueled by anger over his childhood abandonment, his discovery of the family he never knew he had--and his subsequent loss of them. And all of it accompanied by scores of rare, never-before-published photographs, mug shots, and hand-written lyrics.
Kommentar:
En bok du bara måste lästa om du är ett Crüe-fan, och då har du säkert redan gjort det. Även om du inte är ett fan så tror jag du kommer gilla boken, det går helt enkelt inte att låta bli. Jag har läst den engelska utgåvan, (hela tre gånger dessutom!), tror inte riktigt på den svenska översättningen i det här sammanhanget. Det är dessutom en väldigt snyggt designad bok, späckad med bilder och grafik. Huruvida sanningshalten i boken stämmer finns det olika synpunkter på, men det är hur som helst en underhållande skildring av bandets karriär och rock'n'roll livet.