Jim Morrison: Life, Death, LegendPenguin, 16 juin 2005 - 512 pages As the lead singer of the Doors, Jim Morrison’s searing poetic vision and voracious appetite for sexual, spiritual, and psychedelic experience inflamed the spirit and psyche of a generation. Since his mysterious death in 1971, millions more fans from a new generation have embraced his legacy, as layers of myth have gathered to enshroud the life, career, and true character of the man who was James Douglas Morrison. 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 tendencies both fueled his creative ambitions and brought about his downfall. Gathered from dozens of original interviews and investigations of Morrison’s personal journals, Davis has assembled a vivid portrait of a misunderstood genius, tracing the arc of Morrison’s life from his troubled youth to his international stardom, when his drug and alcohol binges, tumultuous sexual affairs, and fractious personal relationships reached a frenzied peak. For the first time, Davis is able to reconstruct Morrison’s last days in Paris to solve one of the greatest mysteries in music history in a shocking final chapter. Compelling and harrowing, intimate and revelatory, Jim Morrison is the definitive biography of the rock idol in snakeskin and leather who defined the 1960s. |
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... Angeles locations like the observatory in Griffith Park, and Sal Mineo's tragic sacrificial death at the film's end made a deep impression on Jimmy. Rebel Without a Cause also began Jim Morrison's deep and obsessive love of movies, and ...
... Angeles for a catalog. Jimmy didn't need much prodding to begin dreaming of California. His family was already there, and American pop radio was blasting out daily cultural bulletins from Brian Wilson's mythic southern California of ...
... Angeles, where they stayed with Brian's cousins. Jimmy, it appeared to Brian, was in heaven. Jimmy loved the rundown business district of downtown L.A., especially the Mexican neighborhood around Olivera Street near the old Mission, and ...
... Angeles. He was accepted later that fall, and even assigned advanced placement in the term beginning in January 1964. That autumn, Jimmy landed the role of Gus in a student production of The Dumbwaiter, Harold Pinter's twocharacter play ...
... Angeles on the same day Jack Kennedy was murdered. But, unlike the dead president, Aldous Huxley left this life under the influence of a massive dose of LSD25. By the time Jimmy arrived in Los Angeles six weeks later, he was thoroughly ...
Table des matières
Learn to Forget | |
Back Door | |
The Warlock of Rock | |
Sunken Continents | |
Lord of Misrule | |
The Soul of a Clown | |
Last Tango in Paris | |
The Cool Remnant of a Dream | |