And all of it accompanied by scores of rare, never-before-published photographs, mug shots, and handwritten lyrics. In these pages, published for the first time anywhere, are Tommy Lee's letters to Pamela Anderson from prison: Mick's confession to having an incurable disease that is slowly killing him Vince's experience burying his own daughter - and the train wreck that his life became afterward and Nikki's anguished struggle to deal with an entire life fueled by anger over his childhood abandonment, his discovery of the family he never knew he had - and his subsequent loss of them. Here - directly from Nikki, Vince, Tommy, and Mick - is the unexpurgated version of the whole glorious, gut-wrenching story. All these unspeakable acts, not to mention their dire consequences, are laid bare in The Dirt. Fueled by every drug they could get their hands on and obscene amounts of alcohol, driven by fury and headed straight for hell, Mötley Crüe raged through two decades, leaving behind a trail of debauched women, trashed hotel rooms, crashed cars, psychotic managers, and broken bones that has left the music industry cringing to this day.

Tommy married two international sex symbols Vince killed a man and lost a daughter to cancer Nikki overdosed, rose from the dead, and then OD'd again the next day and Mick shot a woman and tried to hang his own brother. They have dedicated an entire career to living life to its extreme, from the greatest fantasies to the darkest tragedies. They nailed the hottest chicks, started the bloodiest fights, partied with the biggest drug dealers, and got to know the inside of every jail cell from California to Japan. Their unbelievable exploits are the stuff of rock 'n' roll legend. This is the life of Mötley Crüe, the heaviest drinking, hardest fighting, most oversexed and arrogant band in the world. Whiskey and porn stars, hot reds and car crashes, black leather and high heels, overdoses and death.

The Dirt by Neil Strauss