In Jim Morrison, critically acclaimed journalist Stephen Davis, author of Hammer of the Gods, unmasks Morrison’s constructed personas of the Lizard King and Mr. Mojo Risin’ to reveal a man of fierce intelligence whose own destructive ...
You can also hear Jim Morrison’s final poetry recording, now available for the first time, on the CD or digital audio edition of this book, at the Village Recorder in West Los Angeles on his twenty-seventh birthday, December 8, 1970.
Never-before-seen poetry, prose, epigrams, diary entries, and scribblings fill a second posthumous volume of writings by the lead singer of the Doors
But this reassessment is only part of this remarkable book.
With thanks to Ed Victor, Nigel Newton, Jonathan Newhouse, Karl Badger, Max Bell, Maurice Boland, Gordon Burn, Robert Christgau, Nik Cohn, Nicholas Coleridge, John Densmore, Robin Derrick, Pamela Des Barres, Jeff Dexter, Tony Elliott, ...
Based on extensive research and featuring dozens of rarely published photographs, this is the authoritative portrait of the poet, the grim visionary, the haunted man, and his haunting music.
Here is Jim Morrison in all his complexity-singer, philosopher, poet, delinquent-the brilliant, charismatic, and obsessed seeker who rejected authority in any form, the explorer who probed "the bounds of reality to see what would happen.
ABOUT THE BOOK Rock star, poet, filmmaker, and self-proclaimed shaman -- Jim Morrison is the archetype of the modern rock star.
After our visit to Fire Brigade H.Q. we took the Metro back across Paris to the apartment where Jim and Pam had lived during their stay in Paris. The rue Beautreillis is a quiet back street in the Marais, a beautiful area of sizeable ...
“This book is the real story.”—Robby Krieger “[John] Densmore's is the first Doors biography that feels like it was written for the right reasons, and it is easily the most informed account of the Doors' brief but brilliant life as ...