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

Nikki Sixx

Apr 2011 · Harper Collins

About this ebook

This Is Gonna Hurt is music, photography, and life through the distorted lens of Nikki Sixx, bassist for heavy metal rock band Mötley Crüe’s and the New York Times bestselling author of The Heroin Diaries. A combination of powerful prose and dramatic photographs, This Is Gonna Hurt is an arresting, deeply personal look through the eyes of a real rock star at a stark, post-addiction world.

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.

Ratings and reviews

From the time I first started reading this book I couldn't put it down. Nikki has saved me from doing the absolute wrong to seeing life from a completely different angel. Him as an Author, Musician, Photographer have been all but an inspiration for me. This book is truely worth reading for any fan of Nikki and his work to really.see that there is a different side to our world and that we really can appreciate those who really are the beautiful people\m/

I really liked this book. It pulls you in. Give u a look into his life and at the same time helps you look into your life. I realized alot reading these pages. Thank Sixx. One of the best books i have read in awhile next to the Heroin Diaries. Now it makes me look forward to reading The Dirt. Keep up the good work. If you have read it. Please do!!! Its a must read!

I read this and the heroin diaries, I'm 15 and I honestly hate reading but I could not stop reading these, they're compeling and amazing. Nikki is a very talented, incredible human being. You need to read :3

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.