Rock and roll icon Nikki Sixx tops Amazon’s bestseller list with her latest book, The first 21: How I became Nikki Sixx. The new memoir was released on October 19 and quickly rose to # 1 on Amazon’s rock music book rankings. As of this writing, he still ranks # 1 and is also in Amazon’s Top 40 Biographies and Memoirs.

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While Sixx has already written three other books, including the Captivating 2007 Heroin diaries, the new book offers a glimpse into his early years, before fame with Mötley Crüe. Sixx calls it his “origin story,” and indeed, the 224-page book begins at birth, with Sixx – born Franklin Carlton Feranna – recounting his journey from an Idaho farmer to a founding member of one. of the greatest rock bands of all time. (The title of the book refers to the first 21 years of his life, when he still bore his birth name).

While Heroin diaries was a heartbreaking read on Sixx’s descent into drug addiction, The first 21 focuses more on his upbringing and how his love for music got him out of a troubled family life and dead end jobs that bounce from state to state. “He was an all-American kid – hunting, fishing, chasing girls and playing soccer – but underneath it all was a yearning for more, and that more was music,” the article reads. a description of the publisher Hachette.

Sixx also opens up in detail about his chaotic home environment, writing candidly about his father’s abandonment and ultimately moving in with his grandparents, after his single mother was unable to properly care for him. . Even when he moved to Hollywood, it was years before the bassist and songwriter found success on the stage. As he writes in the book, Sixx had to “scramble for survival,” with random jobs ranging from soaking circuit boards and selling light bulbs to cash registers in liquor stores.

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Of course, any Mötley Crüe fan knows how the story ends: Franklin Feranna eventually changed his name to Nikki Sixx and after meeting drummer Tommy Lee, guitarist Mick Mars and singer Vince Neil, he formed what would be one of the most emblematic. groups from the 80s and 90s.

“Like Huck Finn with a stolen guitar, he had a vision: a band that combined punk, glam and hard rock in the biggest, most theatrical and irresistible package the world has ever seen,” reads the description of the book. “With hard work, passion and a little luck, the vision manifested into reality – and it’s a true, deep story that finds identity, of how Frank Feranna came to be Nikki Sixx It’s also a roadmap for ways you can overcome it all and achieve all of your goals, if only you think about it.

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The first 21: How I became Nikki Sixx is now available in hardcover, Kindle, and as an Audible audiobook, narrated by Sixx himself.

The Memoirs of 2021 is the fourth book published by Sixx, which is a triple New York Times bestselling author with Heroin diaries, It will hurt, and the biography of Mötley Crüe, The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Famous Rock Band.

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