The First 21

I was a teenager when my mom handed me a copy Nikki Sixx's The Heroin Diaries. We regularly shared music books so this wasn't a big thing, but this book was insane. It detailed Nikki Sixx's descent into sex, drugs, and rock and roll. So when I saw that he was publishing another book, The First 21, detailing his life leading up to his rockstar lifestyle, I immediately preordered it.

Where The Heroin Diaries was raw and unfiltered journal entries filled with unbelievable stories, The First 21 drops the facade of Nikki Sixx and lets us into the life of Frankie Feranna. A young man who had been taken in by his grandparents who allowed him to be who he wanted to be. They believed in him when neither of his parents did. Strangers along the way created the man we know as Nikki Sixx. But little did I know, he borrowed or straight up stole aspects of his stage persona from literally everyone he came in contact with, even his name.

It's not really the book I was expecting it to be, but it was a good quick read into the life of an average kid with Idahoan roots who actually made it as a rockstar. It's not about the raw unfiltered version we all know and love, it's about the kid who made it.

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