Celebrate over 30 years of the world's most notorious rock band with the audiobook edition of The Dirt - the outrageous, legendary, no-holds-barred autobiography of Mötley Crüe.

Fans have gotten glimpses into the band's crazy world of backstage scandals, celebrity love affairs, roller-coaster drug addictions, and immortal music in Mötley Crüe books like Tommyland and The Heroin Diaries, but now the full spectrum of sin and success by Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx, Vince Neil, and Mick Mars is an open book in The Dirt.

Joe Levy at Rolling Stone calls The Dirt "without a doubt...the most detailed account of the awesome pleasures and perils of rock & roll stardom I have ever read. It is completely compelling and utterly revolting."

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14 hours and 43 minutes
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June 25 2019
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English
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B07RH855D9
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	14 hours and 43 minutes
Author	Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars
Narrator	Sebastian York, Roger Wayne, Fred Berman, MacLeod Andrews, Hillary Huber
Audible.ca Release Date	June 25 2019
Publisher	HarperAudio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07RH855D9
Best Sellers Rank	#1,584 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #13 in Musician Biographies #15 in Composer & Musician Biographies (Books)

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Dave L

Amazing book

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 3, 2022

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What a great book. Well written & hard to put down. One of the best rock star books I had every read & I have read dozens. I love the fact that this book includes detailed anecdotes from every member of the band past & present. What a trashy lifestyle they lived. I'm shocked that they're still alive & out of prison.

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Linda Rose

Great

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 26, 2021

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Hilarious and heart wrenching. Really enjoyed the stories and anecdotes
Recommend to anyone who loves the Crue!! Awesome book to read!!

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Turtle

Crazy

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 21, 2021

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This was a wild ride. I am now obsessed with Motley Crue and Nikki Sixx. Had their albums in the 80s, but didn't really follow the band then. Definitely recommend this book.

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and was pretty much every night of their adult lives

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 11, 2014

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This could have been one of the most interesting documentaries I've ever read. I mean, one can only imagine the storied and parties that Motley Crue are able to partake in. However, this began (a little more tamely) right form the beginning of their rock years, and was pretty much every night of their adult lives... amazing that one night in their lives was possibly more exciting than half of the rest of the population's entire lives. Never went to a concert, did like the band when I was in G8, and some of their songs are obvious classics... I also didn't follow them to closely - I knew they broke up for a while... didn't really know about Mick Mars being so isolated and I didn't know they recorded with another singer... so it was more interesting to me to see some of the quirky things that went on behind the scenes. Amazing times and was great to read about it!

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Briana LaBerge

Good luck putting it down!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 31, 2017

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Nearly pee'd my pants multiple times because I could not bring myself to put this book down! A lot of memoir type books often lose their momentum as the books nears an end however "The Dirt" only gains it. I almost felt as though I knew these people, I care about them. This is not for the faint of heart or highly critical-self proclaimed literature experts. These people are not born authors, but that gives them a raw edge of brutal honesty while recounting their lives for the world to absorb. I do not enjoy their music, it is just haphazardly thrown together in my opinion however that does not take away from the experience of stepping into the reality with every page turning detail.

Wait for the cog analogy, its superb.

Enjoy!

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Jamie May

Awesome

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 3, 2021

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Looking forward to this read...

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Dale Thompson

One of the best autobiographical rock n' roll books you'll ever read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 26, 2017

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One of the best autobiographical rock n' roll books you'll ever read. Tons of insights and dirt into the most notorious bands of the 1980's and enough smut to make it fun. Surprisingly candid and sincere, the stories and recounts are genuine and fun, shocking and sometimes sad. Even if some of these stories are 50/50 real and embellished, The Dirt is still one hell of a ride through a decade of decadence. A fun read, you won't want to put it down and you may find yourself going to watch/listen to the band again with a whole new perspective.

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Kduval1982

Satisfait

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 8, 2021

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Livre en état acceptable comme décrit.Livraison rapide.Bon prix vu l'état.

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Brian Jones

The Banana Has Indeed Split

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 15, 2022

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This is a shabby story about shabby people.

You might remember Motley Crue, although it’s likely to be for their non musical activities rather than such classics as Girls Girls Girls. This book starts well in dealing with how the Banana Splits met, each member giving their view of how things unfolded. It works and is entertaining - as kids the Splits had it tough and went through various travails until the final line up was established. You get lots of extraneous tips, like if you’ve been out fooling around with a girl and don’t want your other half to know then wrapping your member in a kebab gets rid of the smell of female. Class.

A pivotal moment is when the Splits spend time with Van Halen’s high prince, David Lee Roth. You sense that our boys see DLR as the measure for their future aspirations although in the Splits case they’ll amp DLR up to 11. As an example, we’re regaled with a tale of a hotel jape in which a woman has a telephone inserted in her following which the Splits telephone room service. How we laughed as the boys shout in the phone while struggling to hear what the person on the front desk is saying. The woman into whom the telephone was inserted was laughing though, so that’s OK. It’s not in any way exploitative or abusive. Later, one of the Splits has a swimming pool built in the shape of that part of a woman’s anatomy. I was kind of disappointed that he didn’t have a water slide added in the shape of a phone.

The Banana Splits are soon on the cusp of world domination including a trip to the UK. Here one of the Splits rubs up against some established UK act. It might have been Deputy Dawg, I can’t recall. Anyway, the Split concerned beds the unfortunate Dawgs wife. Take that Deputy Dawg and move over, the new cartoon characters are in town!

Unfortunately things unravel in somewhat catastrophic style. One night the Splits are hosting the Scooby Doo crew. The booze soon runs out so Drooper takes a Banana Buggy downtown to pick up more supplies. He takes Scooby with him. It’s been raining and on the way back Drooper takes a bend at speed, looses control and hits a vehicle coming in the opposite direction. The young couple in the other vehicle suffer life changing injuries. Drooper also knows that he’s killed Scooby when he sees the collar with ‘SD’ in the road. It’s a disaster, not least because Drooper could be personally liable. Not to worry though, one of the army of smooth talking lawyers spots that if the Splits were hosting the Scooby Doo crew then it’s in effect a ‘work’ meeting so the bands insurance will pay off any costs. Phew, close call or what.

The financial needs of the injured couple are met and that’s the last we hear of them. No visits, no calls to ask ‘how are Ya doing’, no real contrition. Just collateral damage in the quest for self gratification. Drooper is pretty cut up about Scooby’s death though, along with the inevitable jail term this could entail. Again the smooth talking lawyers demonstrate their worth and get Drooper a reduced sentence on condition he goes around schools saying ‘hey kids, don’t do drugs’. Or something like that.

Poor old Drooper does have to do time though. The other three Splits pay little heed to this and visit only rarely resulting in much ‘woe is me’ baloney from Drooper. Boo hoo, or not. The remaining splits have their own problems to cope with. Bingo has an unfortunate propensity for getting loaded and spending the night in lap dance/ strip joints. Here he’ll meet a woman, usually a porn star with her own issues. They hook up, get married the next day and then divorce three weeks later on the grounds of the femme being a psycho. This happens several times - I was under the impression that doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result is a sign of madness, but I could be wrong.

True love kind of wins out when Bingo scores a date with Pamela Anderson! Wow!! On the way to meet her Bingo calls at an adult store where he purchases various toys and lubes. Honestly, how many men on a first date think ‘I know what I’ll do to impress, I’ll turn up with a truck load of vibrators’. No, me neither. Anyway, Pammie isn’t phased and they get married, film the consummation following which it gets purloined and we know what happens next. Somewhat surprisingly the marriage doesn’t last ending in an array of guns being brandished and cops being called.

Running tandem to this the Splits have a deal with Elektra. Unfortunately said Elektra have noticed that each successive record sells significantly less than the one before and before you know it, the band are without a deal. This for me was the genuinely funny bit as it’s accompanied by more self pity than you can shake a stick at. The icing on the cake is the fact that the Elektra coup de grace is delivered by - wait for it - a woman! You can imagine the cat calling that accompanies that. Hilarious.

After this, the Banana Splits are reduced to playing a scout hut in Indiana and a phone box in Arkansas. Alas, they rally and pick up some more momentum.

These are shoddy people, excepting Mick Mars who spends much of the book on the periphery of the madness. At the end of it all it’s the two kids who were in that car crash I feel sorry for. Them, and the endless parade of women who fleetingly pass through the book. Maybe the band could have released a record and donated the proceeds to a women’s refuge or to those with injuries caused by others. But no, instead in 2003 they released a compilation album called ‘Music To Crash Your Car To’. Hilarious isn’t it?

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A. Parker

The cover says it all

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 4, 2016

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The moment I saw the cover of this book I thought yeah, this will be interesting. I never listened to Motley Crue, neither am I interested one bit in what kind of career they had but I will repeat what another reviewer wrote: even if you don't care about them, buy this book and you won't regret it. First of all, this is one crazy romp that gives you a very good idea about what life was like back in the day when rockers had poodle hair and wore leggings. Secondly, you will be laughing your butt off and reading with your eyebrows permanently raised at how those guys did all those things and survived to tell the story. I may be repeating again what others said but yep, it's that bad and crazy. Also, I absolutely have to mention how beautifully produced this book is. Just looking through it is an experience in itself. It starts with the cover, of course (don't forget to read through the label on the bottle) and then there are the chapter headings, and the amazing photos, and some additional trivia in the form of comments or photocopies of eviction notes and the like, and the whole typesetting deal, like the little ornaments here and there, and even the unusual page numbers. This book has been designed with great care and it's worth buying it to just look at how it was done. But it's an amazingly written story as well, colourful, super interesting, mind-boggling, hilarious, cheeky and simply so great it makes you feel SO happy you discovered it. If you know someone who listened to rock in the 80s and 90s, or just someone who likes music and is interested in its history, buy this book for them too. But don't buy an ebook, buy the proper paper version so you don't miss anything from this fantastic experience. I'd give it six stars if I could.

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Shopaholic74

The highs and lows of the greatest rock band

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 21, 2019

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Always been a crüe fan but never knew hardly anything about their lives just loved their music, and thought Nikki was hot. Wow what a ride these guys have had. This book tells the highs, the lows and the crazy, wild sleezy Times they encountered. Saw the movie first and loved learning about them, but the book is another level. It really delves into the madness that was Mötley Crüe. Every chapter is one of the guys stories of that time. I loved this book and I laughed and cringed and cried reading it. It opens your eyes to the reality of being a rock star. It's not all fame and fortune but they certainly gave rock the sex drugs and rock n roll name it has today.

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MusicDevotee6

Frighteningly, sickeningly honest... but un-put-down-able

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 11, 2022

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Co-written by the four original members of American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe and journalist Neil Strauss, 'The Dirt' documents the crazy life of the band during their twenty years at the top of their game. It reveals their dalliances with drugs, sexual exploits and encounters, as well as the highs (and lows) of being rockstars in the late 80s and 90s. It is, at most points, frighteningly honest and incredibly reflective - if I had written such a book and there was a chance that a loved one might read it, I would not want it in print.

Mötley Crüe have really lived it. The life.

They have done it all, seen it all - and sniffed it all.

It is a surprise that they are still going. At the time of writing this (September 2022), they are still touring and are currently in America.

However, it must be pointed out that some of what Mötley Crüe did in their time is sickening. Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee raped a girl and she never pressed charges - and they never seemed to show a lot of remorse. I would have liked to see a little more reflective thinking in 'The Dirt'. As mentioned, a loved one of theirs may be reading, and I would not want to appear bad in front of somebody whom I cared about.

But the honesty, I must say, is refreshing. It is without a doubt the most honest autobiography I have ever read, and it seems to tell what happened exactly as it did without mincing words or making it seem as though they (the band) were in the right for their actions. For this reason, I must say that 'The Dirt' was quite pleasing to read. It was self-deprecating, rude and quite often hilarious - if only because it is impossible to believe what Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx and Vince Neill actually got up to as young(er) stars.

C. Brown

Good grief! As recommended by Chris Griffin of Family Guy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 8, 2019

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I bought this on the recommendation of Chris Griffin on Family Guy!!
And I'm so glad that I did.
Amazing read of a rock band's life and debauched times...and a testament to the body and mind to survive. Just.
I like the way that the chapters are written... I can imagine that there is much that has not been included due to numerous reasons, which makes it even more jaw dropping.
I'm gonna miss reading it.
And no matter how outrageous you think your life has been, there's always someone who can top it...and I think these guys have. Completely.

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