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The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star (edizione 2007)

di Nikki Sixx (Autore)

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The co-founder of the rock band Mötley Crüe presents a candid account of his own descent into the hell of drug addiction, describing the impact of heroin on his life and the band.
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Titolo:The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
Autori:Nikki Sixx (Autore)
Info:Simon & Schuster Ltd (2007), 432 pages
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The Heroin Diaries ♦ Nikki Sixx | Rezension

Eigentlich müsste Nikki Sixx tot sein! Und das schon seit vielen Jahren. Mit seiner Autobiographie The Heroin Diaries – A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star erzählt er eindringlich, mit unsagbar viel Gefühl und einer Prise Humor, wie er dem Tod von der Schippe springen konnte. Ich habe dieses Buch in drei verschiedenen Ausführungen gelesen: der erste Auflage, einer Auflage 10 Jahre später (Ten Year Anniversary) und von Nikki Sixx selbst gelesen als AudioBook.



The Heroin Diaries – A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

Du denkst, der Lebensstil eines großen Rock’n’Roll-Stars auf dem Höhepunkt seines Ruhms ist nichts anderes als luxuriöse Dekadenz und lustige Zeiten, oder? Nun, das ist es und das ist es nicht. Denn wenn du dich nie mit deinen Schmerzen der Kindheit befasst hast, scheint der Kampf mit Depressionen und einer erdrückenden Einsamkeit und dem Leben auf der Straße endlos und leer zu sein, und du behandelst dich selbst mit Sex und Drogen. Jedenfalls war dies so für Nikki Sixx und die Dinge sind schnell aus dem Ruder gelaufen und wurden zu seinem schlimmsten Albtraum.

[…] why I was angry and confused for all those years. I lived my life being told different stories: some true, some lies, and I still don’t know which is which. Children are born innocent. At birth, we are very much like a new hard drive – no viruses, no bad information, no crap that’s been downloaded into it yet. It’s what we feed into that hard drive, or in my case „head drive“ that starts the corruption of the files.

- Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries – A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star




Nikki Sixx, Bassist und Hauptsongwriter bei Mötley Crüe, hatte es in den 80ern geschafft.
Er hatte alles. Ruhm, Geld, Alkohol, Drogen, Mädchen und nebenbei entwickelte er eine Sucht, die sein Leben mehrfach fast beendete und ihn zu einem wütenden, paranoiden und gefährlichen Kerl machte.
Ob ich es ihm abkaufe, dass er während dieser Zeit, 1987, ein Tagebuch führte? Ich weiß es nicht, aber ich habe diese Tatsache einfach hinten angestellt. Denn seine Geschichte ist so schwer zu lesen. Es hat mir schier das Herz gebrochen, wie er seine Selbstzerstörung, seine Depression, sein Ego und seine schlechte Einstellung im Allgemeinen beschreibt. Auch die schrecklichen, rücksichtslosen Dinge, die er getan hat, wenn er unter Drogen stand (sofern er sich erinnern kann!) lassen ihn oft wie das größte Arschloch der Welt erscheinen. Und doch geht es in The Heroin Diaries um einen Menschen, der verzweifelt um sein Leben kämpft und dies trotz aller Widrigkeiten.

Ich wusste bereits, bevor ich das Buch gelesen habe, dass Nikki Sixx in den 80en schwer drogensüchtig war, was daran liegt, dass ich schon seit vielen Jahren ein Fan der Band Mötley Crüe bin. Umso schmerzhafter war es das Buch zu lesen, denn es ist so brutal ehrlich, dass ich das Gefühl hatte emotional alles mitzuerleben. Ich stürzte mit ihm ab, umklammerte unter Paranoia mit ihm das Schrotgewehr und fühlte seine Einsamkeit ganz tief in mir. Eine Einsamkeit, deren Kälte nicht zu erklären ist, aber sie zerfrisst dich von Innen heraus.

When you die, every single muscle in your body hurts. Your body has closed down because it thinks it’s done, and when it gets rebooted, every inch of you hurts. Plus I’d had the shit beaten out of me with a baseball bat.
- Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries – A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star


Nach jedem Tagebucheintrag gibt es Kommentare von seinem aktuellen Ich und anderen ‚Weggefährten der damaligen Zeit. Auch finden sich Auszüge aus (teils unveröffentlichten) Songtexten und Poesie zwischen den Einträgen. Diese Ergänzungen seiner Freunde und Bekannten, sowie seine Texte erweitern das Gesamtbild und sind oft furchtbar schmeichelhaft.

Ich muss sagen, es war mutig von ihm, dieses Buch zu veröffentlichen und sich Jahre später öffentlich mit seiner Drogensucht auseinanderzusetzen und heute, nach 40 Jahren im Musikbusiness hat er seine wahre Bestimmung darin gefunden, den Drogen den Kampf anzusagen.

Zitate aus „The Heroin Diaries“

The dying could be easy…it was the living that I didn’t know if I could do…
- Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries – A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star


When You’ve lost it all….that’s when you realize that Life is Beautiful.”
- Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries – A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star


[…] only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality…
- Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries – A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star


Fazit

Es bedarf einer gehörigen Portion Mut sich mit einem Tagebuch aus der schlimmsten Zeit des eigenen Lebens an die Öffentlichkeit zu wagen. Dies ist ein einmaliger, trauriger, erschreckender, faszinierender und abgründiger Einblick in das Leben einen Rock Stars der 80er Jahre.

Wenn du dich auch nur ansatzweise für die sexuellen Handlungen und Heldentaten des Straßenlebens und den verheerend langsamen Weg eines Mannes zur Genesung aus der Drogensucht interessierst, dann wirst du um dieses Buch nicht herumkommen.

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  RoXXieSiXX | May 20, 2024 |
My review of this book can be found on my YouTube Vlog at:

https://youtu.be/H3tz7YqYqqc

Enjoy! ( )
  booklover3258 | Aug 6, 2023 |
This book is an actual diary of Nikki Sixx, the songwriter and band member of Motley Crue. The diary entries are for a single year in his life, a year where he basically was addicted to heroin and abusing cocaine and alcohol.

What I found to be quite interesting about this book is the format. The diary entries are interspersed with commentary from people who knew Sixx at the time - his mother, his bandmates, his manager, friends, etc. It also uses Sixx's lyrics to accentuate the messaging, and it is interesting to see how his lyrics mirror his life.

When taken holistically, the diary paints a picture of what can happen when a child who feels abandoned meets up with drugs and fame. Even without the drugs, Sixx would be an interesting character, but this books really feels honest and downright scary.

It's quite amazing that Motley Crue was successful given the absolutely disgusting and abhorrent behavior that went on (and I'm not that easily disgusted).

These diaries are very, very raw - - so you will not enjoy this book if you are squeamish. It's also punctuated with a lot of artwork and photos which I think Sixx actually did/pulled together, but which were extremely difficult to see on my Kindle. Not a great book for the Kindle actually - - I'm thinking that if you are a Kindle owner, it would be better to get this one in some other format.

All in all, I found these diaries pretty gripping, and I will say that they left enough unanswered questions for me that I have this strong desire to buy another book or two about the Crue (which I never listened to) and the band mates. Morbid curiosity on my part I guess!! ( )
  Anita_Pomerantz | Mar 23, 2023 |
Diary of a junkie... it got a bit repetitive but was still pretty interesting. ( )
  cziering | Nov 27, 2022 |
In one of the most unique memoirs of addiction ever published, Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx shares mesmerizing diary entries from the year he spiraled out of control in a haze of heroin and cocaine, presented alongside riveting commentary from people who were there at the time, and from Nikki himself.

When Mötley Crüe was at the height of its fame, there wasn't any drug Nikki Sixx wouldn't do. He spent days -- sometimes alone, sometimes with other addicts, friends, and lovers -- in a coke and heroin-fueled daze. The highs were high, and Nikki's journal entries reveal some euphoria and joy. But the lows were lower, often ending with Nikki in his closet, surrounded by drug paraphernalia and wrapped in paranoid delusions.

Here, Nikki shares those diary entries -- some poetic, some scatterbrained, some bizarre -- and reflects on that time. Joining him are Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Slash, Rick Nielsen, Bob Rock, and a host of ex-managers, ex-lovers, and more.
  petervanbeveren | Jul 20, 2022 |
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