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Mötley Crüe: The Dirt
by Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil, and Nikki Sixx, with Neil Strauss
published by ReganBooks/Harper Collins
Confession time: I have never heard a Mötley Crüe record in my life - and after having read 'The Dirt', it'll probably not happen in this lifetime. But this is a minor sin compared to the ones you can find in 'The Dirt', the biography that makes Led Zeppelin seem like the Spice Girls. This hair-metal band from LA scored big with 'Shout at the Devil', 'Girls Girls Girls', and 'Dr. Feelgood', set the template for Guns N' Roses, Poison, and the like.
So why would an indie fan pick up a biography by a heavy metal band that were too fast for love in the 80s? Because - just like the Beastie Boys used to consider 'Hammer of the Gods' their bible - debauchery is intriguing. It is not Dostoyevski. It isn't even on the same level as Michael Crichton's output. But unlike those two writers, Tommy Lee and his gang of outlaws can keep you awake at night with their tales of sex, drugs, and... more sex and drugs... and more drugs... and then some more. From Ozzy "I am the krelley man" Osbourne licking up urine to the car accident, in which Razzle of Hanoi Rocks found his untimely death, the book has more highs and lows than a rollercoaster ride in an amusement park. Written with Neil Strauss, this book has all of the members relating their entire life without holding back - one doubts they could be more outlandish after stuffing a telephone receiver up a groupie's crotch or stealing the clothes off a homeless girl. Misogyny is certainly not alien to these LA rockers.
The writing is not of high standard. The reason may be because much of what the characters said - or maybe at times yelled - into the tape recorder is typed verbatim on the pages. But style is not what you look for. You look for the dirt. And that is what you find in spades. It starts off as a gang leaving a trail of groupies behind and then finding love in the arms of Lita Ford, mud wrestlers, Heather Locklear, and Pamela Anderson. The piles of drugs reach higher than the mountains of cocaine on the table in 'Scarface'. It finally ends in rehab and the straight life. Or rather, an attempt at keeping it sober.
With each chapter comes a multitude of pictures to bring the stories to life. Certainly, the picture taken by Mick Rock and the letters Tommy wrote to Pamela Anderson are worth the price of admission alone. If excess is the standard of quality, then 'The Dirt' is an instant classic. Read and devour.
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