Mötley Crüe - The Dirt:
Confessions Of The Worlds Most Notorious Rock Band

*=Staff's pick

Genre	Biography	-	Vocals
Pages	430	-	Guitar
Runningtime	Depends on reader	-	Guitar
Label	HarperCollins	-	Bass
Release	2004	-	Drums
Country	USA	-	Keyboards
Author	T. Lee, M. Mars, V. Neil, N. Sixx with N. Strauss

Mötley Crüe may never have been my favourite band, but they have always been there, lurking in the shadows. And the self-told story about a notorious band made me curious to find out when they tell their story themselves how much of all the rumours I've heard were accurate. And what can you say besides, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll? If the guys in Mötley Crüe didn't invented that term they at least fulfilled it and live by it to a maximum.

The story is told divided in chapters where each one of the guys gets the chance to produce his side of the story by his own words. And even other persons that has been involved with the band come to speak as well. You get it all, in what feels like an uncensored way. Starting from the guys growing up and how the band came to take form. It is a journey with Mötley Crüe to the top of their career and later the downwards slide after the departure of Vince Neil. And further on to the time with John Corabi and the later re-union with Vince on to where Tommy Lee quit the band before their latest album New Tattoo (2000) and was replaced by Randy Castillo on drums. John Corabi gets to speak and it is interesting to read his perception on his time with the band. It wasn't always easy for that guy, he had to put up with a lot of shit from the others and the last chapter with him consists only of five words describing his feeling towards his days being counted for: Make your fucking minds up!

You get a glimpse of all their adventures and their personal sides outside of the music , it is actually more about everything else than about their music in many of the pages. Even though the myth about sex drugs and rock 'n' roll might sound glorious, all things were not right in the Mötley camp. You find out that it was a band full of inner struggles within the band as well as with problematic girlfriends. And they also had inner struggles with themselves, both personal problems and with addiction of either drugs or alcohol, or both. The Dirt is what you could expect, fascinating reading and with stuff you perhaps didn't know about the guys. But the most touching moment in the book is coming from Vince. In the part where he tells about his daughter Skylar that died in cancer, that chapter is really getting to you.

It is entertaining as well as fascinating reading, and sometimes really funny or even scary. My usual summer reading with science fiction and fantasy books had to step aside, but sometimes this one almost felt like a horror-tale with the huge, and I really mean huge amount of booze and drugs. But I got just as much mind satisfaction out of reading the story about Mötley Crüe as I get from reading about goblins or aliens, in some strange way the differences doesn't seem to be so far apart at times.

Mötley Crüe - The Dirt: Confessions Of The Worlds Most Notorious Rock Band

Mötley Crüe - The Dirt:
Confessions Of The Worlds Most Notorious Rock Band