“I remember, when I was a kid, listening to the radio and hearing 'Big Bad John' by Jimmy Dean - and it just blew me away. I used to sit there and call the radio stations and request that song. And then the Beatles were obviously out already, but I really didn't know about the Beatles.”

American musician and songwriter

Nikki Sixx is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, author, photographer, and radio personality. He is best known as the co-founder, bassist, primary songwriter, and only constant member of the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe. Before Mötley Crüe, he played in Sister and later formed London with his Sister bandmate Lizzie Grey. He also started the side projects 58, Brides of Destruction, and Sixx:A.M., the last of them created to accompany his autobiography The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star.