25 YEARS AGO: NIKKI SIXX DECLARED DEAD..

From a career standpoint, Motley Crue has had nine lives. However, we’d estimate that bassist/co-founder Nikki Sixx alone has eaten up at least half of those. Of course, none of his (near-) death experiences have been as infamous as the one on December 23, 1987. After a night of drug-fueled partying with pals (including Guns n’ Roses members Slash and Steven Adler and Ratt’s Robbin Crosby), Sixx was injected with one last syringe of heroin—and promptly passed out cold.