21 Top memoir books like The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx by Nikki Sixx

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The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx

By: Nikki Sixx

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Rock-and-roll icon and three-time bestselling author Nikki Sixx tells his origin story: how Frank F…

"Vince Neil once told me 'You look down on people.' My wife once told me something along the same lines, 'You look down on people who were born with silver spoons.' She's right. I DO look down on those people. I look down on how superficial they are. On the way they don't even register suffering. It's as if other people's pain doesn't exist. But it does exist. You can't cut yourself off from the pain without losing a lot of good things that go with it. All the lines etched into an old person's hands and face, every one of those lines tells a story. Just looking at them, letting yourself see their beauty, that's half the work. All their hopes, all their fears, all that motivates them, or maybe makes them wish they didn't exist, those are things to write about."

-Nikki Sixx, The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx

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1. Tommyland

By: Tommy Lee , Anthony Bozza

3.69

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

Now in paperback, the New York Times bestseller in which rock and roll's most notorious bad boy bar… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
"One day, after practice, he came up behind me, tapped me on the shoulder, and as I turned around, he sucker-punched me and relocated my nose to the other side of my face. What up, Mr. Drum Captain? H…"

-Tommy Lee, Tommyland

"If you show up late [for anger management], you don't get credit for the class, which made that car ride even more of a test of your temper. Being late was great-you could leave if you wanted to, but…"

-Tommy Lee, Tommyland

" Pamela Anderson : 'He called and called, leaving about twenty messages, just drunk dialing. One of them was him singing his version of the Oscar Mayer theme song: "My baloney has a first name, it's …"

-Tommy Lee, Tommyland

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2. Slash

By: Anthony Bozza , Slash

4.00

Format: 458 pages, Hardcover

From one of the greatest rock guitarists of our era comes a memoir that redefines sex, drugs, and r… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
"Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours"

-Anthony Bozza, Slash

"Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me. The guitar is my conscience, too - whenever I've lost my way, i…"

-Anthony Bozza, Slash

"Once you’ve lived a little you will find that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you in one way or another. It may be today, tomorrow, or years from now, but it happens; usually when …"

-Anthony Bozza, Slash

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3. Tattoos & Tequila: To Hell and Back with One of Rock's Most Notorious Frontmen

By: Vince Neil , Mike Sager

3.41

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

"So where do we start? I remember when we did The Dirt, the Mötley Crüe book, I was interviewed at … read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
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4. Somebody to Love: The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury

By: Mark Langthorne , Matt Richards

4.24

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

For the first time, the final years of one of the world's most captivating rock showman are laid ba… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"He was a loveable rogue, and very costly to be around, always bumping into expensive things and demanding champagne, but always bright and lively and the center of attention."

-Mark Langthorne, Somebody to Love: The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury

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5. The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

By: Neil Strauss , Marilyn Manson

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

The 150,000-copy national bestselling autobiography of Marilyn Manson, America's most controversial… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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6. The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

By: Tommy Lee , Neil Strauss , Vince Neil , Nikki Sixx , None

4.31

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Whiskey and porn stars, hot reds and car crashes, black leather and high heels, overdoses and death… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
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7. Runnin' with the Devil: A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen

By: None

3.84

Format: 352 pages,

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
  • audiobook
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8. I Am Ozzy

By: Ozzy Osbourne , Chris Ayres

4.11

Format: 176 pages,

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. The American Night: The Lost Writings, Vol. 2

By: Jim Morrison

3.00

Format: None pages,

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  • music
  • nonfiction
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10. Melissa Explains It All: Tales from My Abnormally Normal Life

By: Melissa Joan Hart

3.43

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

Melissa Joan Hart explained it all-from dating to bullies-in her groundbreaking role as Clarissa Da… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I remember asking my friend. . .for tips and her best one was: When watching football with your man, just look up once in awhile and ask, Now who did he used to play for?' He'll talk for at least fif…"

-Melissa Joan Hart, Melissa Explains It All: Tales from My Abnormally Normal Life

"Senses impaired, I knew I was there for a cover shoot but felt unfazed when I saw the wardrobe rack full of bras, panties, and nothing else... after having just come from a party full of naked people…"

-Melissa Joan Hart, Melissa Explains It All: Tales from My Abnormally Normal Life

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11. Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N' Roses

By: Stephen Davis

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

Watch You Bleed on tarina yhtyeesta, jonka aggressiivisen akkivaara musiikki ja eeppisen itsetuhoin… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
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12. KISS and Make-up

By: Gene Simmons

4.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

You wanted the truth, you got the truth--the hottest book in the world! Fueled by an explosive mix … read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N’ Roses by None, Steven Adler, Lawrence J. Spagnola

13. My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N’ Roses

By: None , Steven Adler , Lawrence J. Spagnola

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Steven Adler, the original drummer for Guns N' Roses, comes My Appetite for Destruction, the i… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
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14. Living Like a Runaway

By: Lita Ford

3.37

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Heavy metal's leading female rocker (Rolling Stone) bares all, opening up about the Runaways, the … read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
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15. Face the Music: A Life Exposed

By: Paul Stanley

4.06

Format: None pages, ebook

In Face the Music, Paul Stanley--the co-founder and famous "Starchild" frontman of KISS--reveals fo… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
  • audiobook
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16. Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock

By: Sammy Hagar

3.32

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Sammy Hagar--legendary lead singer of Van Halen, founder of the Cabo Wabo Tequila brand, and one of… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll

17. 18 and Life on Skid Row

By: Sebastian Bach

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

In this uncensored, unfiltered memoir, the musician and former front man for Skid Row tells the sto… read more

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18. Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy: Advice from Rock's Ultimate Survivor

By: Ozzy Osbourne , Chris Ayres

4.43

Format: 63 pages, Hardcover

Wondering if science could explain how he survived his 40-year avalanche of drugs and alcohol, Ozzy… read more

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19. The Lords and the New Creatures

By: Jim Morrison

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

Originally self-published as two separate volumes in 1969 (The Lords/Notes on Vision,which Morrison… read more

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20. It's So Easy: And Other Lies

By: Duff McKagan

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

A founding member of Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver shares the story of his rise to the pinnacle… read more

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21. Dirty Rocker Boys

By: Caroline Ryder , Bobbie Brown

3.57

Format: 271 pages, ebook

An uncensored Hollywood tell-all filled with explicit tales of love, sex, and revenge from the vide… read more

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22. Last of the Giants: The True Story of Guns N' Roses

By: Mick Wall

2.80

Format: None pages,

Many millions of words have already been written about Guns N' Roses, the old line-up, the new line… read more

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23. Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir

By: Joe Layden , Dave Mustaine

4.47

Format: 907 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Founding member, singer, and lead guitarist of Metallica and Megadeath sh… read more

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24. The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx

By: Nikki Sixx

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Rock-and-roll icon and three-time bestselling author Nikki Sixx tells his origin story: how Frank F… read more

Similar categories in Nikki Sixx's The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx book and Nikki Sixx's The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
  • audiobook
"Vince Neil once told me 'You look down on people.' My wife once told me something along the same lines, 'You look down on people who were born with silver spoons.' She's right. I DO look down on thos…"

-Nikki Sixx, The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx

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25. Love, Pamela

By: Pamela Anderson

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

To live and dream is a wicked dance. My dreams often come true -- a curse, and a blessing. Pa… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"She told me that you get to have only one true love, and once you've found it, whether you kept it or lost it, you'd never recover...Accepting that was the hardest part."

-Pamela Anderson, Love, Pamela

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26. Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion

By: Tom Beaujour

4.07

Format: 535 pages, Hardcover

Hard rock in the 1980s was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that pe… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • rock n roll
  • audiobook
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27. The Collected Works of Jim Morrison

By: Jim Morrison

4.26

Format: 584 pages, Hardcover

Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and Lyrics Created in collaboration with Jim Morrison’s estate an… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I rely on images of violence, which bring the shock of pain, to penetrate the barriers people erect and defend, not simple defenses; the phony facades people live behind. Blocking their perceptions f…"

-Jim Morrison, The Collected Works of Jim Morrison

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28. Confess: The Autobiography

By: Rob Halford

4.40

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The legendary frontman of Judas Priest, one of the most successful heavy metal bands of all time, c… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Cherry on Top: Flirty, Forty-Something, and Funny as F**k by Bobbie Brown

29. Cherry on Top: Flirty, Forty-Something, and Funny as F**k

By: Bobbie Brown

3.77

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Life isn’t easy when you’re single, pushing fifty, and still haunted by the ghosts of your rock 'n'… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Double Talkin' Jive: True Rock 'n' Roll Stories from the Drummer of Guns N' Roses, the Cult, and Velvet Revolver by Matt Sorum

30. Double Talkin' Jive: True Rock 'n' Roll Stories from the Drummer of Guns N' Roses, the Cult, and Velvet Revolver

By: Matt Sorum

3.70

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In DoubleTalkin’ Jive legendary drummer Matt Sorum takes music lovers behind the scenes of a remark… read more

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  • music
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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31. Fathers, Brothers, and Sons: Surviving Anguish, Abandonment, and Anthrax

By: Frank Bello

4.05

Format: None pages, None

Frank Bello is an American musician, most notable as bassist for the legendary thrash metal band An… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography

11 Best audiobook books like The First 21: How I Became Nikki Sixx by Nikki Sixx

Transform Your Habits

Somebody to Love: The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury

Mark Langthorne , Matt Richards

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Runnin' with the Devil: A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen

None

3.84

Transform Your Habits

I Am Ozzy

Ozzy Osbourne , Chris Ayres

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Melissa Explains It All: Tales from My Abnormally Normal Life

Melissa Joan Hart

3.43

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19 best-selling nonfiction books like Slash by Anthony Bozza, Slash

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Tommyland

Tommy Lee , Anthony Bozza

3.69

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Slash

Anthony Bozza , Slash

4.00

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The Beatles Anthology

The Beatles , John Lennon , Paul McCartney , Ringo Starr , George Harrison

4.38

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Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith

Stephen Davis , Aerosmith

4.04

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