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Jim Morrison

Life, Death, Legend

Stephen Davis author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Ebury Publishing

Published:1st Sep '05

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The riveting and shocking biography of Jim Morrison - lead singer of The Doors, poet and icon who changed rock music history and defined an era

Brings together insights gleaned from dozens of original interviews, long-lost recordings, and the Morrison's journals to create a portrait of a misunderstood genius. This work brims with details on various phases of Morrison's life, from his troubled youth in a strict military household, to his coming of age in the avant-garde scene of 1960s LA.

Jim Morrison's electrifying live performances, and appetite for sexual and psychedelic experience enflamed the spirit of a generation. In Jim Morrison, critically acclaimed journalist Stephen Davis brings together insights gleaned from dozens of original interviews, long-lost recordings, and Morrison's own unpublished journals to create a vivid portrait of a misunderstood genius.

Each page brims with new details on every phase of Morrison's life, from his troubled youth in a strict military household, to his coming of age in the avant-garde scene of 1960s LA, his epic alcohol and drug binges, and sexual affairs.

In a gripping final chapter, Davis synthesizes new evidence recently uncovered in Paris to resolve at last many of the mysteries surrounding Morrison's death, and reconstructs the final days and hours of America's greatest rock star. Compelling and harrowing, intimate and revelatory, Jim Morrison is the definitive biography of the rock god who defined the 1960s.

As near-definitive as we are likely to get. Detailed, shocking and scrupulously researched, it is an addictive and often harrowing read * Sunday Telegraph *

ISBN: 9780091900427

Dimensions: 198mm x 128mm x 30mm

Weight: 346g

512 pages