Nikki Sixx

Nikki Sixx (2007)

Nikki Sixx (born December 11, 1958 in San José , California , USA ) is an American musician and founder and bassist of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe .

He officially changed his original name Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna at the end of 1980 after falling out with his father of the same name, Frank Feranna. In the 2002 in German published Mötley Crüe autobiography The Dirt , the original authority form of the California district of the city of Los Angeles for the name change is printed, dated November 7, 1980. Together with Tommy Lee he founded the band Mötley Crüe . He was at times heavily addicted to drugs and nearly died of overdose twice .

In 2007 he founded the hard rock band Sixx: AM with songwriter, producer and singer James Michael and guitarist DJ Ashba . To create a soundtrack for his autobiography The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star . Due to the success of the first single Life Is Beautiful , however, it was decided to continue the band.

Life

He has three children with his first wife. In his second marriage he married the actress Donna D'Errico , she brought a son into the marriage. Their daughter was born on January 2, 2001. D'Errico filed for divorce in May 2006.

Nikki Sixx ran the music project 58 together with his ex-father-in-law Dave Darling in 2000 . After Mötley Crüe temporarily ended , he formed the band Brides of Destruction with Tracii Guns in 2002 .

In the meantime there was a reunion of Mötley Crüe with the original line-up. From February 14th 2005 to April 2006 the reunion tour "Carnival of Sins" took place. The band officially broke up in 2015 and announced their reunion and a US tour for 2020 in November 2019.

Sixx (left) with Mick Mars (2005)

In his book The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star , Sixx talks about his past drug addiction and his life as a rock star. This book has a soundtrack called The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack , which he released with his band Sixx: AM . The three singles Life is Beautiful , Pray For Me and Dead Man's Ballet are available to the public on Sixx's Myspace page.

When Nikki Sixx was seven years old, he smoked pot for the first time in Mexico . In the mid-1980s, his arms were so punctured by the constant use of heroin-filled syringes and his veins were badly damaged that he soon had to stick the needles of the syringes into his legs, feet, hands, neck and even his penis . In addition, tufts of hair fell out of his head. Caused by his dissolute lifestyle, Nikki Sixx developed a drug-induced paranoia with hallucinations . In this context, Sixx searched his house for burglars, saw unknown people outside in the trees, heard police officers walking on his roof and suspected that a special task force to fight drugs was trying to break into him. The lines " Going way too fast / Gonna burn and crash / Valentine's in London / Found me in the trash " of the Mötley Crüe song Dancing on Glass , included on the 1987 album Girls, Girls, Girls, were composed by Nikki Sixx looked forward to a late night encounter between him and a seedy drug dealer while Mötley Crüe toured Europe after performing with Cheap Trick on Valentine's Day in London . A taxi took Nikki Sixx and guitarist Andy McCoy of Hanoi Rocks , his companion, to a neighborhood in Hammersmith with dilapidated tenements, where the dealer injected an overdose of strong heroin into his arm, causing Sixx to lose consciousness. After the drug dealer hit Nikki Sixx's chest and arms with a baseball bat in order to unsuccessfully get his circulation going through the pain, the dealer put him in a dumpster and fled. After a party celebrated with Slash by Guns N 'Roses in Los Angeles in 1987, Nikki Sixx narrowly escaped death after consuming Persian heroin. Sixx had to be reanimated in the ambulance of an emergency doctor . When he woke up in the hospital, he fled and took heroin again in his apartment, causing Sixx to collapse bleeding in the bathroom at home with the syringe in his arm. In order to process this decisive experience, Sixx wrote the song Kickstart My Heart for the Mötley Crüe album Dr. Feelgood from 1989.

When Nikki Sixx was spending an afternoon at his apartment with dark-skinned girlfriend Denise "Vanity" Matthews , the singer in American girl-pop band Vanity 6 , with whom he was in a drug-drug relationship, the couple turned on the radio in their bedroom while visiting friends chatted in the living room. Referring to the radio voices and feeling threatened, Sixx took out a .357 Magnum pistol and shot it several times at a large speaker on the stereo.

In the 2002 German autobiography The Dirt, penned by Mötley Crüe , he wrote of the withdrawal symptoms such as sweating, fever, tremors and cold symptoms that arose when Nikki Sixx was not taking heroin : “ I always believed I was stronger than any drug and way too clever to really get addicted to anything; only idiots with no willpower became dependent. But at that moment in my hotel room, I realized that I was either an idiot or I was wrong. "

In memory of his grandmother, whose first name was Nona, who died after a serious illness, Nikki Sixx, who had a close relationship with his grandmother, wrote the ballad-like song Nona , which is on Mötley Crüe's 1987 album Girls, Girls, Girls . Together with rock musician Lita Ford , Sixx composed the song Falling In And Out Of Love , at a time when he couldn't come up with any ideas for new Mötley Crüe pieces, which appeared on Lita Ford's third album called Lita in 1988 . Sixx, who grew up with his single mother, addressed his deep-seated father-son complex in the aggressively pounding song Father , which can be found on the 1994 Mötley Crüe EP Quaternary, recorded with interim singer John Corabi . When writing the lyrics, Sixx not only focused on the bad feeling of never having had a father, but also tried to empathize with how a father had to feel who had no contact with his biological son.

From 2007 to 2010 Sixx was in a relationship with the tattoo artist Kat von D , in January 2010 the two separated without any official reason. In the same year Sixx began a relationship with the model Courtney Bingham, whom he married on March 15, 2014 in their third marriage.

Nikki Sixx had a biological sister named Lisa who had Down syndrome , could neither speak, see, nor walk and therefore lived as an intensive care patient in a sanatorium in Santa Cruz . However, Nikki Sixx only found out about his sister's existence as an adult, shortly before the start of the tour for the 1997 Mötley Crüe album Generation Swine . A few days after the tour ended, his sister Lisa died of a heart attack, whose funeral in an urn after being cremated was financed by Sixx. He had his sister buried on a specially acquired property on a mountain in Los Angeles, under a statue of an angel with wings. Sixx also has a four-year-old half-brother named Randy, who he also only found out about as an adult. It was Randy Feranna who informed him about his sister Lisa. Randy Feranna was a big fan of Mötley Crüe for years without knowing that a blood relative of his was playing the electric bass in this glam metal band. In addition, Nikki Sixx has a half-sister named Ceci. His father, Frank Feranna senior, died of a heart attack in the shower on Christmas 1987.

He is portrayed by Douglas Booth in the film biography The Dirt - They Wanted Sex, Drugs & Rock'n'Roll (2019) about Mötley Crüe .

Publications

• Diary of a heroin addict: 365 hellish days in the life of a rock star. IP 2009, ISBN 978-3931624613 .

Web links

• Nikki Sixx in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Internet presence of Nikki Sixx (English)
• Nikki Sixx on Myspace
• Heroin Diaries on Myspace

Individual evidence

1. ^ Mötley Crüe : The Dirt . Autobiography of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe, co-authored with Neil Strauss , from the American by Kirsten Borchardt , Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 2nd edition, 2002. p. 43
2. ↑ Sixx: AM | Biography & History. Retrieved September 6, 2019 (American English). 
3. ↑ Announcement on the band's website , November 18, 2019, accessed December 8, 2019.
4. ^ Mötley Crüe : The Dirt . Autobiography of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe, co-authored with Neil Strauss , from the American by Kirsten Borchardt , Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 2nd edition, 2002. p. 240
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6. ^ Mötley Crüe : The Dirt . Autobiography of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe, co-authored with Neil Strauss , from the American by Kirsten Borchardt , Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 2nd edition, 2002. p. 223
7. ^ Mötley Crüe : The Dirt . Autobiography of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe, co-authored with Neil Strauss , from the American by Kirsten Borchardt , Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 2nd edition, 2002. P. 166 f. 184 + 223
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9. ^ Mötley Crüe : The Dirt . Autobiography of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe, co-authored with Neil Strauss , from the American by Kirsten Borchardt , Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 2nd edition, 2002. p. 227
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11. ^ Mötley Crüe : The Dirt . Autobiography of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe, co-authored with Neil Strauss , from the American by Kirsten Borchardt , Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 2nd edition, 2002. P. 184 f.
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13. ^ Mötley Crüe : The Dirt . Autobiography of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe, co-authored with Neil Strauss , from the American by Kirsten Borchardt , Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 2nd edition, 2002. p. 187
14. ^ Mötley Crüe : The Dirt . Autobiography of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe, co-authored with Neil Strauss , from the American by Kirsten Borchardt , Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 2nd edition, 2002. p. 187
15. ^ Mötley Crüe : The Dirt . Autobiography of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe, co-authored with Neil Strauss , from the American by Kirsten Borchardt , Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 2nd edition, 2002. p. 368
16. ↑ Nikki Sixx To Marry Model Courtney Bingham In March , accessed October 3, 2013.
17. ^ Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx Marries model Courtney Bingham , accessed March 19, 2014.
18. ^ Mötley Crüe : The Dirt . Autobiography of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe, co-authored with Neil Strauss , from the American by Kirsten Borchardt , Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 2nd edition, 2002. P. 368 f. + 385 + 392-394 + 447-450
19. ^ Mötley Crüe : The Dirt . Autobiography of the glam metal band Mötley Crüe, co-authored with Neil Strauss , from the American by Kirsten Borchardt , Hannibal Verlag , Höfen , 2nd edition, 2002. p. 392