I got the chance to check out an advance copy of this book and it is AMAZING! A must for any Crue fan – the ‘Shout At The Devil’ era photos are reminiscent of the Circus magazine glory days.

MOTLEY CRUE: A Visual History 1983-1990 by Neil Zlozower
(Chronicle Books; August 2009; $35.00)

Motley Crue’s gleeful glam debauchery and unstoppable anthems have made them metal gods selling over 72 million album copies worldwide and landing their band biography The Dirt on bestseller lists around the country. Motley Crue is amazingly the first photographic history of the band. Legendary rock photographer Neil Zlozower’s images capture the band’s rise from their breakthrough album Shout at the Devil through rock ‘n’ roll excesses to follow with the unprecedented all-access candor of a friend to the band. In hundreds of photographs and stories from the band and those close to them Motley Crue reveals them onstage backstage on tour hanging out and in studio a must-have album of photos and testimony on one of the most powerful and controversial bands in rock history.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
NEIL ZLOZOWER has been photographing bands for more than 30 years over a long and storied career and is the author of Van Halen: A Visual History and Fuck You: Rock and Roll Portraits. He lives in Los Angeles.

Nikki Sixx is a founding member of Motley Crue and the author of the best-selling The Heroin Diaries. He lives in Los Angeles.

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