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An explosive biography of one of America's most notorious bands -
Moetley Crue. Moetley Crue were formed in Los Angeles in 1981, and
have since gone on to become one of America's biggest-selling and
notorious heavy metal acts, with nine studio albums and over 80
million album sales. Acquiring huge success by the end of the 1980s
with their mixture of heavy metal and glam rock, singer Vince
Neil's 'glam' look even supposedly inspired the hit Aerosmith song
'Dude (Looks Like A Lady)'. In 1992 Neil left the band to pursue a
solo career before returning in 1997. The band went into hiatus in
2000 before reuniting in 2004. In TATTOOS & TEQUILA, Vince Neil
chronicles his personal experiences as singer and frontman for
Moetley Crue, and his time as a participant on reality shows.
Moetley Crue were a band who always lived up to the typical image
of the 'rock and roll' lifestyle, and this is captured firsthand by
Neil, who writes candidly about the band's struggles with drugs,
alcohol and the law. These include incidents such as bass guitarist
Nikki Sixx's near fatal heroin overdose in 1987. He also details
his marriages to date, as well as movingly writing about the death
of his daughter Skylar from cancer in 1995. The result is a
compelling look at a band and a man who have seen many highs and
lows in their career. A highly-anticipated film following the
group's formidable ascent to the top of the '80s rock scene will be
released in February 2018.
"The wry and knowing Mike Sager has written a saucy and kinetic
L.A. novel. Celebrity gets fully toasted in this engaging romp
about show business and the clash of cultures high and low, where
the talk is tough before the shooting starts. The spotlight, it
seems, can sometimes be a very dark place."
-Ron Carlson, author, "Return to Oakpine," co-director, MFA
Program in Fiction Writing, University of California, Irvine.
In this artful page-turner, a beloved superstarlet, a
controversial billionaire Hip Hop mogul, and a television
writer/producer idled by a demoralizing strike are linked together
improbably by murder, domestic heartbreak, a sex video . . . and
their inclusion on a secret subscription list for an exclusive
designer strain of medical marijuana. Over a span of three
seemingly ordinary days and nights in Los Angeles, the world
wobbles on its digital axis, and futures are forever changed.
Hollywood, January 2008. The Writers Guild of America is on
strike. An increasingly peevish viewing audience is relegated to a
starvation diet of reruns and old movies. What happens when a
series of shocking, deadly, and prurient events boils over into a
perfect storm of serendipitous, round-the-clock programming? And
what becomes of the major players, whose lives are inalterably
masticated by the public's right to know?
High Tolerance is the second novel by the award-winning "Rolling
Stone" and "Esquire" journalist Mike Sager, whose work has inspired
a number of films, including the classic "Boogie Nights." He
summons his considerable descriptive and narrative powers-and three
decades behind the scenes covering celebrities, gangs, drugs, and
crime-to weave together a raw and insightful tale of complicated
lives in the shifting racial landscape of turn-of-the-century Los
Angeles, the dream factory from which the American Zeitgeist is
exported around the globe.
Mike Sager is to drugs, porn, and crimes of desperate delusion what
Dominic Dunne is to the society murder. In addition to his
long-classic Rolling Stone story "The Devil and John Holmes" (which
helped inspire the upcoming Val Kilmer film, Wonderland) and his
groundbreaking GQ piece about murdered Irish investigative reporter
Veronica Guerin (also the subject of a major film starring Cate
Blanchett), Scary Monsters and Super Freaks is a wonderful rogue's
gallery of up-close pieces about the most public failures of the
American dream. From Rick James and his drug-fueled detour into
white slavery to the life and suicide of porn starlet Savannah,
from deep inside the beating of Rodney King and the Heaven's Gate
cult suicides to Chuck Berry's sexual predilections, this book
brings to high-profile true crime a highly identifiable voice and
style. Currently Esquire's Writer-at-Large, Sager takes us along
for the ride with a raft of other figures including the late NWA
Rapper Easy E. Winner, the FBI agent who fell in love with his
informant, and the highest ranking DEA agent to be busted for drug
trafficking. This is a brilliant debut collection by one of
America's most respected and stylish crime writers.
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