Motley Crue's Sixx to release solo album, memoir

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx will release his first solo album, "The Heroin Diaries," on August 21, as a precursor to his autobiography of the same name, which arrives September 25.

The album's 12 tracks each match up with one chapter in the book; first single "Life Is Beautiful" can be downloaded from the book's MySpace.com page (http://www.myspace.com/heroindiaries).

Motley Crue will be back on the road this summer for a handful of dates, beginning June 1 in Winterthur, Switzerland.

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