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Jun 23, 2022 · Categories: Galleries, Pictures, Yearly Photos. A pictorial look at Nikki Sixx's career, including Motley Crue, Sixx:A.M. and his various other projects.
- When Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx Was Declared Dead - Ultimate Classic Rock
Motley Crue had nine lives from a career standpoint – and...
- Nikki Sixx on What He Remembers From the '80s: 'Not Much'
Jeff Giles Published: September 16, 2016. Jesse Grant, Getty...
- When Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx Was Declared Dead - Ultimate Classic Rock
Dec 7, 2021 · Classic Rock. The Nikki Sixx interview: rebellion, danger, and what makes Vince Neil excel. By Henry Yates. ( Classic Rock ) published 7 December 2021. Nikki Sixx: the problem child who became the ringmaster of LA’s Sunset Strip, wrote the anthems that built hair metal and set the gold standard for excess. (Image credit: Kevin Estrada/IconPix)
- Queen – Ogre Battle
- T. Rex – Rip Off
- Wings – Band on The Run
- Black Oak Arkansas – Jim Dandy
- Elton John – Your Song
- Black Sabbath – Snowblind
- David Bowie – Cracked Actor
- Motley Crue – Kickstart My Heart
This was such an important song for me. My friends and I had already discovered the first Queen album, and marvelled at all those amazing melodies and chord progressions that were unlike anything we’d ever heard. But when we dropped the needle on Ogre Battleit was the most mind-blowing moment for me, because of how it mixed the coolest, hardest roc...
What a cool-looking album! There was Marc Bolanwith his guitar and this huge Marshall stack just looking like the coolest rock star on earth. You’d be getting excited even being you dropped the needle, and then it was just, Wow! This was so tough-sounding, but again, this was an artist who could mix different layers of melody. I loved the rhythm he...
My friends and I have had many conversations asking, The Beatles or Wings? And when my friends say, ‘Wings’, I’m like, I know, right? Sacrilege to some, I know, but I’m sorry, Band On The Runhas it all. My uncle was the President of Capitol and when I was a kid he would send me out boxes of vinyl every couple of months, and I distinctly remember ge...
As teenagers we were listening to Elton John and Bowie and Queen, but one day I remember my friend came over with this Black Oak Arkansas album and it seemed like a whole new world. I was living in Seattle at the time, and we were so into British rock, and then this opened our eyes to American bands. What a great band. I don’t think Black Oak Arkan...
To me this is the best song Elton John has ever written. It still makes the hairs stand up on my arms. It’s just perfect, with a really beautiful lyric. Elton had a way of taking the piano and making it totally rock’n’roll, even when he was playing ballads like Candle In The Wind or Your Song. He was a bit controversial at times, which appealed to ...
As teenagers when we wanted to hang out with the older, cooler kids, we’d walk a couple of miles to a pizza place that sold beers, and we’d smoke a little pot out back, and listen to them talk about music and girls. At a point this song just totally captured my imagination. There was a jukebox in there, and I remember I’d keep putting my 10 cents i...
This always seemed like the perfect song from Bowie. It’s the way [Mick] Ronson attacks his guitar, that weird snaking rhythm, those incredible lyrics… it actually transported me to another planet when I heard it. When I listened to Bowie on headphones it was like theatre for the mind, and I loved everything from his earliest days through to Diamon...
That song [written about a 1987 heroin overdose which saw Sixx ‘die’ for two minutes] was an accident. I’d written this kinda punk rock riff on acoustic guitar and I wrote this smart-ass lyric about getting high on speed, knowing that it would never get played on the radio, just to see what we could get away with. It became a really magical moment ...
- Paul Brannigan
Aug 22, 2007 · By Peter Makowski. ( Classic Rock ) published 22 August 2007. On December 23, 1987, Nikki Sixx was pronounced dead. Amazingly, he lived to tell the tale. A cleaned-up Sixx talks about his new book and album, The Heroin Diaries. (Image credit: Getty Images)
- Peter Makowski
Jul 4, 2022 · Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx: “My job is to support the song and be super tight with my drummer. If there’s any room in there, I might throw in something melodic” By Hywel Davies. ( Bass Player ) last updated 4 July 2022.
- Hywel Davies
Nikki Sixx (born Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna Jr.; December 11, 1958) is an American musician, best known as the co-founder, bassist, and primary songwriter of the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, being the only member to remain throughout their entire history.
