First 21 Book

In The First 21, rock-and-roll icon and three-time bestselling author Nikki Sixx tells his inspirational origin story: how Frank Feranna persevered to become Nikki Sixx, chronicling his fascinating motivational journey from irrepressible Idaho farmboy to the man who formed the revolutionary rock group Mötley Crüe.    Nikki Sixx is one of the most respected, recognizable, and entrepreneurial icons in the music industry. As the founder of Mötley Crüe who is now in his twenty-first year of sobriety, Sixx is incredibly passionate about his craft and wonderfully open about his life in rock and roll, and as a person of the world. Born Franklin Carlton Feranna on December 11, 1958, young Frankie was abandoned by his father and partly raised by his mother, a woman who was ahead of her time in some ways and deeply troubled in others. Frankie ended up living with his grandparents, bouncing from farm to farm and state to state. He was an all-American kid—hunting, fishing, chasing girls, and playi