Nikki Sixx Close To Finishing Heroin Diaries

05/18/07 5:00pm

by Jason MacNeil (CHARTattack)

Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx is finishing work on The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star, an album to go along with his autobiography of the same name.

The record is slated to be released on Aug. 21, while the book will be published by Simon & Schuster on Sept. 25. The book is culled from Sixx's writings from 1986 and 1987, when he was at the height of his drug addiction.

The album was written and produced by Sixx along with singer James Michael and DJ Ashba. It features 12 tracks, one dedicated to each of the 12 chapters in the book. A portion of both the album and book sales will go towards Sixx's Running Wild In The Night fundraising project, which assists runaway children in trying to get them off the streets.

"The weekend is here and I lay here in bed exhausted and extremely content," Sixx wrote on May 12 on the MySpace page dedicated to the project. "I've never been afraid to work hard because I don't consider anything you truly love to ever be work.

"So much music is flowing these days, James is mixing Heroin Diaries, me and DJ are popping back and forth from James studio to ours, little fix up's, add on's and musical updates."

The trio have been working with Trapt lead singer Chris Brown on the album, which includes "Accidents Can Happen," a song Sixx describes as "one of the most powerful songs any of us have ever had the pleasure of writing." "Life Is Beautiful" is on the MySpace page.

Motley Crue have a string of European dates slated for this summer. They're also the subject of a motion picture based around the band autobiography, The Dirt.