The Dirt

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name = The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
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author = Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Neil Strauss
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Autobiography
publisher = HarperEntertainment (hardback), ReganBooks (paperback)
pub_date = May 22, 2001 (first edition)
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media_type = print (hardback & paperback)
pages = 431 (hardback), 448 (paperback)
isbn = ISBN 0-06-098915-7
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followed_by = (2007)

The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band (ISBN 0-06-098915-7) is a collaborative autobiography written by Mötley Crüe, Neil Strauss, and The "Mötley" managers, where they write about the members of Mötley Crüe. First published in 2001, it chronicles the formation of the band, their rise to fame and their decadent lifestyles. They write of the highs and lows of their lives with rare candour.

"The Dirt" was written by Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil and Nikki Sixx, with the aid of New York Times writer Neil Strauss.

The book contains over 100 photographs, mostly black & white, with a 16-page colour section in the middle of the book.

The first hardback edition was on the New York Times Bestseller list for four weeks and sold a respectable 13,000 copies in the UK. [ [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/simoneleditoresh/detail/0060989157 aStore for Amazon Associates ] ]

A film of the book, directed by Larry Charles, is currently in production and due to be released in 2009. Some of the rumored names include Val Kilmer (as David Lee Roth) and Christopher Walken (as Ozzy Osbourne). [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800325/ The Dirt (2009) ] ]

References

Further reading

Tommyland (2004) by Tommy Lee and Anthony Bozza. ISBN 978-0743483438

(2007) by Nikki Sixx and Ian Gittins. ISBN 978-0743486286

External links

* Official Mötley Crüe website http://www.motley.com/