The Dirt

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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
AuthorTommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Neil Strauss
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreAutobiography
PublisherHarperEntertainment (hardback), ReganBooks (paperback)
Publication date
May 22, 2001 (first edition)
Media typeprint (hardback & paperback)
Pages431 (hardback), 448 (paperback)
ISBN0-06-098915-7
OCLC50170658
Followed byThe Heroin Diaries (2007) 

The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band (ISBN 0-06-098915-7) is a collaborative autobiography written by Mötley Crüe, Neil Strauss, and the "Mötley" managers, where they write about the members of Mötley Crüe. First published in 2001, it chronicles the formation of the band, their rise to fame and their decadent lifestyles. They write of the highs and lows of their lives with rare candor.

The Dirt was written by Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil and Nikki Sixx, with the aid of New York Times writer Neil Strauss, and contains chapters written by John Corabi and Doc McGhee. Music executives such as Doug Thaler, Tom Zutaunt, and Mike Amata also make short contributions in which they present their versions of events.

The book contains over 100 photographs, mostly black and white, with a 16-page color section in the middle of the book.

The first hardback edition was on the New York Times Bestseller list for four weeks and sold a respectable 13,000 copies in the UK.[1]

The Mötley Crüe album Saints of Los Angeles released in 2008 is the soundtrack to the book.

It was revealed on in late 2012 that there is going to be a movie about Motley Crue's autobiography, The Dirt. On November 1st, it was announced by MTV that "Jackass" director Jeff Tremaine would direct the film, with shooting to begin in 2014 from a script by Tom Kapinos.

Further reading

Tommyland (2004) by Tommy Lee and Anthony Bozza. ISBN 978-0-7434-8343-8

The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star (2007) by Nikki Sixx and Ian Gittins. ISBN 978-0-7434-8628-6

Tattoos & Tequila: To Hell and Back with One of Rock's Most Notorious Frontmen (2010)

This Is Gonna Hurt (2011).

References

  1. ^ "aStore for Amazon Associates". Astore.amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-10-15.

External links

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