by Tommy Lee
First published 2014
Tommy Lee opens the vault on three decades with Mötley Crüe, the band that redefined rock excess. From backstage scandals to celebrity romances, from drug binges that nearly killed them to the music that made them immortal, Lee and his bandmates Nikki Sixx, Vince Neil, and Mick Mars hold nothing back. The four musicians trade off telling their story, revealing the backstage chaos that accompanied their rise to fame. Groupies, overdoses, arrests, and platinum albums blur together in a haze of success and self-destruction. Lee chronicles how the band pushed every boundary, survived multiple near-death experiences, and somehow kept making music through it all. Rolling Stone called this account the most detailed look at rock stardom's pleasures and dangers ever written. This is the complete story of four musicians who lived harder than anyone thought possible and somehow lived to tell about it.
Genres: addiction, autobiography, biography-memoir, music, 21st-century, musicians
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: behind-the-scenes, rise-and-fall
Period: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
448 pages · Kindle Edition · Dey Street Books
Content warnings: addiction, drug-use, explicit-sexual-content