Tommyland -

Tommy Lee, Anthony Bozza

Atria

2005

288 páginas

9h 36m

ISBN-10: 0743483448

I am Tommy Lee, born Thomas Lee Bass in Athens, Greece, on October 3, 1962, and raised in a suburb of California by an American father and a Greek mother. At seventeen, I joined Mötley Crüe and we became one of the baddest-ass rock bands in history. We sold over 40 million albums, we wreaked havoc, we scared parents, and we titillated too many fathers' daughters. I've been married three times: once for just a few days to a Penthouse Pet, for seven years to Heather Locklear, and then for five years to Pamela Anderson, with whom I have two beautiful sons. I've gotten into a lot of fights and I've been to jail a few times.

But this book isn't your typical journey in a straight line from day one to day now. I'm more interested in revealing what's most important about my life, like how I cook my steaks; what I think of the tabloids, the truth, my ex-wives, my ex-band, my music; and what an innocent observer might find hanging around my house any given Sunday. You'll get plenty of facts and I'll tell you a story, but my real mission here is to paint you a picture of my life. I want to show you how my memories smell.

I'd like to get into it now, so please take your seats. I advise you to keep your arms and legs inside the car at all times. If you have a pacemaker, a heart condition, or if you are pregnant or too damn short to reach the safety bar, I ask that you turn back immediately. Those with weak stomachs, strict morals, or chronic indigestion should put the book down now. For the rest of you, there's one truth that's real across the board: What you send out is what you get back. Send out the good, people, and it will come back to you. There's another thing I've learned over the years, in court, in fights, and in arguments with people I love: There isn't one truth, there are many. This book is my truth.

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“This is my life, this is my story”

Warning

There’s a disclaimer at the beginning of the book:

“If you have a pacemaker, a heart condition, or if you are pregnant or too damn short to reach the safety bar, I ask that you turn back immediately. Same goes for those with weak stomachs, strict morals, or chronic indigestion. In fact, you people might want to just put this book down now and slowly back away or return it to your local bookstore.”

...follow it! And know that this is truly about sex, drugs and rock & roll and it comes from the mind and mouth of a musician, with the help of a writer, who takes a lot of liberties, which means this is not a literary masterpiece and the writing comes just as Mr. Lee thinks it/talks about it with a lot of internal dialogue (usually interrupting himself to make comments about his comments and so on). So, if you can’t stand any of the aforementioned things, don’t read this book.

On the other hand, if you don’t care about all the crazyness, you will find that Tommy Lee has come a long way on his life, there are moments of insanity just as there are philosophical and very emotional ones.

He goes through a lot of known (or unknown) facts of his life commented by him, his side of things let’s say, and he shows a side of him that most people may not know.