Now in paperback, a glimpse into the mind of a rockstar, from behind his own lens

I’m six or seven years old, walking down a street in L.A. with my mother. We pass by an amputee. I gaze at her, transfixed.
‘Don’t stare,’ my mother says.
‘Why not?’ I say. ‘She’s beautiful.’

After exploring the horrible depths humanity is capable of reaching, Sixx has a renewed appreciation of the beauty and vibrancy that surrounds us all, and has discovered that it can be found in the unlikeliest of places. THIS IS GONNA HURT is his path out of the darkness; but unlike typical “saved” rockstar memoirs, Sixx proves he is still very much a crazy, wild man.

Looking for a medium to replace the drugs that had been coursing through his veins for so many years, Sixx picked up a camera and hasn’t stopped capturing his vision of hope. THIS IS GONNA HURT features many of the photos depicting what he considers beautiful: the raw emotion of a young prostitute, the pride of a morbidly obese woman, the poetic irony of a homeless, armless man asking for a hand.

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ABOUT NIKKI SIXX
Nikki Sixx is the International rock icon, founding member of Mötley Crüe and Sixx:A.M., two-time New York Times best selling author with The Heroin Diaries and This Is Gonna Hurt, co-founder of rock couture fashion line Royal Underground, philanthropist, photographer, proud father of four and syndicated radio show host of Sixx Sense (http://www.iheartradio.com.au/ and The Side Show Countdown. Some of Sixx’s accomplishments include over 80-million in album sales with Mötley Crüe and Sixx:A.M., countless sold out global tours, Mötley Crüe’s sold out residency at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas – a first for the hard rock genre – an award-winning Superbowl commercial for Kia, photographing high fashion for The New York Post’s prestigious Alexa supplement, and raising several hundred thousand dollars through his Running Wild In The Night charity for Covenant House California.
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– A glimpse into the mind of a rock star, from behind his own camera –

Bestselling author, photographer, musician, and radio host of The Side Show with Nikki Sixx on Bandit Radio (heard across Sweden every Tuesday night from 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM), Nikki Sixx is back with the high quality, full color paperback edition of his New York Times bestselling book, THIS IS GONNA HURT: Music, Photography and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx (William Morrow Paperbacks / March 15th, 2013 / 9780062061881 / 160 Kr).

Looking for a medium to replace the drugs he had used for so many years, Nikki Sixx picked up a camera and began capturing his vision of hope. THIS IS GONNA HURT features many of the photos of what he considers beautiful: a young prostitute, a morbidly obese woman, a homeless man with one arm. Sixx’s talent for photography is undeniable; many of the photos in the book were created utilizing the handcrafted individuality process of wet plate photography.

His idea is to question & challenge society’s established beauty ideals through displaying beauty in a non-traditional way. His hope is to inspire fans the way he has been inspired, and show how he is able to live a vibrant life post-addiction.

This is not a typical post-addiction memoir; for the first time, Sixx is giving readers a glimpse into living the rock star life without drugs. Filled with colour photographs he’s taken himself and stories he’s written himself, THIS IS GONNA HURT is an honest look at his life, through his own camera lens. The book is the companion piece to Sixx:A.M.’s highly successful CD of the same name.

Click here to check out “This Is Gonna Hurt: The Documentaries”

ABOUT NIKKI SIXX
Nikki Sixx is the International rock icon, founding member of Mötley Crüe and Sixx:A.M., two-time New York Times best selling author of The Heroin Diaries and This Is Gonna Hurt, co-founder of rock couture fashion line Royal Underground, philanthropist, photographer, proud father of four and internationally syndicated radio show host of Sixx Sense and The Side Show Countdown. Some of Sixx’s accomplishments include over 80-million in album sales with Mötley Crüe and Sixx:A.M., countless sold out tours, Mötley Crüe’s sold out residency at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas – a first for the hard rock genre – an award-winning Superbowl commercial for Kia, photographing high fashion for The New York Post’s prestigious Alexa supplement, and raising several hundred thousand dollars through his Running Wild In The Night charity for Covenant House California. You can follow him on Twitter @NikkiSixx or like him on Facebook at Facebook.com/NikkiSixxOfficial.

– A glimpse into the mind of a rock star, from behind his own camera –

Bestselling author, photographer, musician, and radio host of internationally syndicated radio program, “Sixx Sense”, Nikki Sixx is back with the high quality, full colour paperback edition of his New York Times bestselling book, THIS IS GONNA HURT: Music, Photography and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx ((William Morrow Paperbacks/March 5th, 2013/9780062061881/$21.99).

Looking for a medium to replace the drugs he had used for so many years, Nikki Sixx picked up a camera and began capturing his vision of hope. THIS IS GONNA HURT features many of the photos of what he considers beautiful: a young prostitute, a morbidly obese woman, a homeless man with one arm. Sixx’s talent for photography is undeniable; many of the photos in the book were created utilizing the handcrafted individuality process of wet plate photography.

His idea is to question & challenge society’s established beauty ideals through displaying beauty in a non-traditional way. His hope is to inspire fans the way he has been inspired, and show how he is able to live a vibrant life post-addiction.

This is not a typical post-addiction memoir; for the first time, Sixx is giving readers a glimpse into living the rock star life without drugs. Filled with colour photographs he’s taken himself and stories he’s written himself, THIS IS GONNA HURT is an honest look at his life, through his own camera lens. The book is the companion piece to Sixx:A.M.’s highly successful CD of the same name.

Click here to check out “This Is Gonna Hurt: The Documentaries”

ABOUT NIKKI SIXX
Nikki Sixx is the International rock icon, founding member of Mötley Crüe and Sixx:A.M., two-time New York Times best selling author of The Heroin Diaries and This Is Gonna Hurt, co-founder of rock couture fashion line Royal Underground, philanthropist, photographer, proud father of four and internationally syndicated radio show host of Sixx Sense and The Side Show Countdown. Some of Sixx’s accomplishments include over 80-million in album sales with Mötley Crüe and Sixx:A.M., countless sold out tours, Mötley Crüe’s sold out residency at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas – a first for the hard rock genre – an award-winning Superbowl commercial for Kia, photographing high fashion for The New York Post’s prestigious Alexa supplement, and raising several hundred thousand dollars through his Running Wild In The Night charity for Covenant House California. You can follow him on Twitter @NikkiSixx or like him on Facebook at Facebook.com/NikkiSixxOfficial.

– A glimpse into the mind of a rock star, from behind his own camera –

Bestselling author, photographer, musician, and radio host of internationally syndicated radio program, “Sixx Sense”, which can be found on Kerrang! Radio every Thursday from 9pm, Nikki Sixx is back with the high quality, full colour paperback edition of his New York Times bestselling book, THIS IS GONNA HURT: Music, Photography and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx (William Morrow Paperbacks / March, 2013 /9780062061881 /£12.99).

Looking for a medium to replace the drugs he had used for so many years, Nikki Sixx picked up a camera and began capturing his vision of hope. THIS IS GONNA HURT features many of the photos of what he considers beautiful: a young prostitute, a morbidly obese woman, a homeless man with one arm. Sixx’s talent for photography is undeniable; many of the photos in the book were created utilizing the handcrafted individuality process of wet plate photography.

His idea is to question & challenge society’s established beauty ideals through displaying beauty in a non-traditional way. His hope is to inspire fans the way he has been inspired, and show how he is able to live a vibrant life post-addiction.

This is not a typical post-addiction memoir; for the first time, Sixx is giving readers a glimpse into living the rock star life without drugs. Filled with colour photographs he’s taken himself and stories he’s written himself, THIS IS GONNA HURT is an honest look at his life, through his own camera lens. The book is the companion piece to Sixx:A.M.’s highly successful CD of the same name.

Check out “This Is Gonna Hurt: The Documentaries” on YouTube!

ABOUT NIKKI SIXX
Nikki Sixx is the International rock icon, founding member of Mötley Crüe and Sixx:A.M., two-time New York Times best selling author of The Heroin Diaries and This Is Gonna Hurt, co-founder of rock couture fashion line Royal Underground, philanthropist, photographer, proud father of four and internationally syndicated radio show host of Sixx Sense and The Side Show Countdown. Some of Sixx’s accomplishments include over 80-million in album sales with Mötley Crüe and Sixx:A.M., countless sold out tours, Mötley Crüe’s sold out residency at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas – a first for the hard rock genre – an award-winning Superbowl commercial for Kia, photographing high fashion for The New York Post’s prestigious Alexa supplement, and raising several hundred thousand dollars through his Running Wild In The Night charity for Covenant House California. You can follow him on Twitter @NikkiSixx or like him on Facebook at Facebook.com/NikkiSixxOfficial.

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Looking for a medium to replace the drugs he had used for so many years, Nikki Sixx picked up a camera and began capturing his vision of hope. THIS IS GONNA HURT features many of the photos of what he considers beautiful: a young prostitute, a morbidly obese woman, a homeless man with one arm. Sixx’s talent for photography is undeniable; many of the photos in the book were created utilizing the handcrafted individuality process of wet plate photography.

His idea is to question & challenge society’s established beauty ideals through displaying beauty in a non-traditional way. His hope is to inspire fans the way he has been inspired, and show how he is able to live a vibrant life post-addiction.

This is not a typical post-addiction memoir; for the first time, Sixx is giving readers a glimpse into living the rock star life without drugs. Filled with color photographs he’s taken himself and stories he’s written himself, THIS IS GONNA HURT is an honest look at his life, through his own camera lens.  The book is the companion piece to Sixx:A.M.’s highly successful CD of the same name.

ABOUT NIKKI SIXX
Nikki Sixx is the International rock icon, founding member of Mötley Crüe and Sixx:A.M., two-time New York Times best selling author of The Heroin Diaries and This Is Gonna Hurt, co-founder of rock couture fashion line Royal Underground, philanthropist, photographer, proud father of four and internationally syndicated radio show host of Sixx Sense and The Side Show Countdown. Some of Sixx’s accomplishments include over 80-million in album sales with Mötley Crüe and Sixx:A.M., countless sold out tours, Mötley Crüe’s sold out residency at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas – a first for the hard rock genre – an award-winning Superbowl commercial for Kia, photographing high fashion for The New York Post’s prestigious Alexa supplement, and raising several hundred thousand dollars through his Running Wild In The Night charity for Covenant House California. You can follow him on Twitter @NikkiSixx or like him on Facebook at Facebook.com/NikkiSixxOfficial.

THIS IS GONNA HURT
Music, Photography and Life Through the Distorted Lens of Nikki Sixx
William Morrow Paperbacks / February 12, 2013 / 9780062061881 / $19.99
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DONATIONS TO CITY OF HOPE UNLOCK THE BAND’S NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR
“ARE YOU WITH ME NOW”

May 14, 2012 – Rock hit-makers Sixx:A.M. (vocalist and famed rock producer James Michael, Motley Crue bassist and radio personality Nikki Sixx and Guns n’ Roses guitarist Dj Ashba) announced today their support of City of Hope through an initiative designed to help raise money for research, treatment and education for the fight against cancer, diabetes and HIV/AIDS. Joining other celebrities such as Ryan Seacrest, Vince Gill and Sugarland in their support of City of Hope, Sixx:A.M. have offered their new music video for “Are You With Me Now” exclusively to the charity. Beginning today, fans who make a donation to City of Hope via www.cityofhope.org/radio will receive a code to unlock the never-been-seen-before video.

Check out a short preview of Sixx:A.M.’s new “Are You With Me Now” video here:

“Are You With Me Now” is the third single from the band’s latest album, This Is Gonna Hurt. The album gave the band their first Top 10 debut on The Billboard 200 chart and has already produced the #1 hit “Lies of the Beautiful People.” The 11-track CD that Billboard proclaimed “redefines the meaning of beauty” and AOL added is “boasting 11 radio-baiting tracks” is also the soundtrack to Nikki Sixx’s New York Times bestselling book “This Is Gonna Hurt,” which debuted at #4.

Sixx:A.M. is the rock band formed in 2007 by Nikki Sixx (bass), Dj Ashba (guitar) and James Michael (vocals). Their debut album, The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack, sold over 300,000 copies, and the single, “Life Is Beautiful,” became radio’s most played rock song of 2008.

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‘Nikki Sixx, bass player for Los Angeles heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, says years of touring and recording music hasn’t taken a toll on the guys: It’s made them stronger.

“We’re like soldiers, man – you can’t take us out now,” Sixx told Washington D.C.’s Fox 5. “You do it long enough and you realize that you just get stronger and you get better – you’re a better player, better singer, better performer, and you just go. You’re like a war machine, to be honest with you.

“The longer you’ve been around, the better you get. And if there’s anything that young musicians [should] take away from this, you can’t look like a roadie and be in a … band. You’ve gotta be in a band. You’ve gotta be a rock star. You’ve gotta dress like a rock star, you’ve gotta play music that’s important, you’ve gotta put a hundred percent into your lyrics, a hundred percent into your songs, a hundred percent into your show, your packaging, your marketing, and do it…”

Sixx has thrilled fist-pumping metal fans since the ’80s, but he became a champion all over again with his high-octane, modern rock band, Sixx: A.M., which formed in 2007. Add to that Mötley Crüe’s recent reunion and Sixx’s popular syndicated radio show, Sixx Sense, and it becomes obvious Sixx is a force of nature.

In the following quotes, the Thunderbird originator chats about his lengthy history playing Gibsons and why writing great songs is about being as “honest as possible.”’

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