MTLEY CRE: Deluxe Collector's Hardcover Edition of 'The Dirt' Due This Month

November 11, 2011

Ten years ago, MTLEY CRE's biography, "The Dirt: Confessions Of The World's Most Notorious Rock Band" penned with collaborator extraordinaire Neil Strauss set a new bar for rock 'n' roll memoirs. A runaway bestseller and genuine cultural phenomenon, this turbocharged blockbuster is still flying off shelves a decade after its initial publication.

The book takes readers along for the whole wild ride of MTLEY CRE the voice of a barely pubescent Generation X, the anointed high priests of backward-masking pentagram rock, pioneers of Hollywood glam, and the creators of MTV's first "power ballad." Their sex lives claimed celebrities from Heather Locklear to Pamela Anderson to Donna D'Errico. Their scuffles involved everyone from Axl Rose to 2LiveCrew. Their hobbies include collecting automatic weapons, cultivating long arrest records, pushing the envelope of conceivable drug abuse, and dreaming up backstage antics that would make Ozzy Osbourne blanch with modesty.

Now, in time for MTLEY's 30th anniversary and a new tour! comes a deluxe collector's hardcover edition of the book, complete with a dazzling new effects-laden cover and all-new extra material from the band inside.

The deluxe collector's hardcover edition of "The Dirt: Confessions Of The Worlds Most Notorious Rock Band" will be made available on December 6 via It Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

It was reported in 2008 that MTLEY CRE was trying to extricate itself from a deal with MTV Films, a division of Paramount Pictures, to make the "The Dirt" movie.

A deal was first announced for the film version in 2006 but has since gone nowhere. Bassist Nikki Sixx told Reuters that MTV was "a channel that used to be hip and has now actually become unhip...They are not the right partner."

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