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Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixx from Mötley Crüe had a bet over who could go the longest without showering and still score with groupies. The bet ended after a groupie vomited pasta on Sixx' shoes in the course of fellatio, which inspired the title of the Guns ‘N Roses album The Spaghetti Incident.

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While on tour with Motley Crew in 1984, Ozzy Osbourne asked Nikki Sixx for a line of cocaine. After being told there was none, Ozzy grabbed a straw, and snorted ants. Nikki confessed: “From that moment on. We knew there was always someone who was sicker and more disgusting than we were.”

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1. In 1987, Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx suffered a heroin overdose that left him legally dead for two minutes. One of his paramedics, who was a Crüe fan, revived him with two shots of adrenaline. This is what motivated the song "Kickstart My Heart".

2. Motley Crüe rocker Nikki Sixx has overdosed numerous times. Once he was revived in an ambulance with 2 shots of adrenaline to the heart, after which he went to his friend's house to take more heroin, it was only after the occasion Sixx was officially declared dead he cleaned up his act.

3. When Motley Crue replaced Vince Neil with John Corabi, the subsequent opening night of the tour only sold 4,000 tickets for a 15,000 seat arena. Nikki Sixx offered free tickets to anyone who wanted them, but only 2 kids showed up. "And that’s when I realized: It was all over," Sixx said.

4. Musicians Nikki Sixx, Sir-Mix-a-Lot, Ryan Lewis, Duff McKagan, and Mike McCready all went to the same Seattle high school. Actress Rose McGowan also went there.

5. Matthew John Trippe, a man who sued Motley Crue manager Doc McGhee in 1988, claiming he was paid to impersonate Nikki Sixx in 1983-84 and wrote a handful of the bands songs without receiving credit.

6. Nikki Sixx, of the band Mötley Crüe, stole his first guitar from a music store. He knew so little about music at the time that he mistakenly stole an electric guitar instead of a bass (the instrument he was to play in the first band he wanted to be in).

7. Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx once hammered a nail through someone’s earlobe and into a table after a disagreement.

8. Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx's mum dated comedian Richard Pryor for a short period. He recalls "playing in the parking garage with my sister and a car pulling in and my mom and Richard [Pryor] getting out. They were blasted."

9. The song "Feed My Frankenstein" by Alice Cooper featured Steve Vai and Joe Satriani on guitars and Nikki Sixx on bass