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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... called him “an angel in grace and a dog in heat.”) Jim was the greatest American rock star of his era, and one of its most publicized celebrities, but—more than three decades later—his life and works have yet to yield all their secrets ...
... called Jimmy by his family, and answered to that name all his life, at least to those who knew him intimately. His father was soon flying Hellcat fighters in the South Pacific, and spent the next eighteen months on duty. While her ...
... called him a liar, and insisted such a thing never could have happened. Fink said that Jim began to cry as he told him the story, and claimed Jim had said that he could never forgive his mother for this. (For the record, the Morrison ...
... called upon to move often and on short notice. There isn't much time to cultivate friendships before the family moves on to the next post or assignment. In the navy, with the ambitious, onthemove father often away at sea, the mothers ...
... (called “Jimbo” by his alcoholic father) into an affluent California high school milieu of anxiety, conflict, and despair. Dean's riveting performance as the rebel Jim was set against visually exotic Los Angeles locations like the ...
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 | |