Nikki Sixx' SIXX: A.M. - 'Lies Of The Beautiful People' Single Out March 1st
February 10, 2011, 13 years ago
On April 12, MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx' SIXX: A.M. will publish This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx, the follow-up to his 2007 New York Times bestseller The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star. The companion album of the same name is due out on May 10th, while the first single, 'Lies Of The Beautiful People', is due out on March 1st.
Sixx describes the "This is Gonna Hurt" book as "very personal. It's definitely not an autobiography," he tells Billboard. "I don't write with an editor in mind or critique myself. It's just me shooting from the hip. Sometimes it's tirades and rants. Sometimes it's very focused. Sometimes it's very sentimental and soft and reflective. Sometimes it's brutal in is assholeishness. It's all my opinion, and I stand by it."
The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack has sold more than 300,000 copies while the single 'Life Is Beautiful' was the most played rock track of 2008. But Sixx says Sixx: A.M. is not worried about matching those achievements this time out.
"What's really nice is the fact no one in the band really cares about success," he says. "The band is set up to not really succeed but just to be self-gratifying -- a lot like my photography. It's definitely not about trying to fit in. The three of us have something that nobody else has and we feel very close to it and it's very emotional and we love what it is. But we don't know what it is at the same time, so we're kind of protective about it."Read the entire interview here.
Sixx will be discussing his new book This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography And Life Through The Distorted Lens and companion album on Thursday, March 10th at Canadian Music Week (Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto).
