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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... drunk, a bisexual omnivore. Jim styled his band “erotic politicians,” and relentlessly urged his huge audience—at the height of the dangerous sixties—to break on through the doors of perception, to free themselves from robotic familial ...
... drunk and upset Jim Morrison waved the band to a ragged halt, stopped the show, and told the audience: “I've been reading about the problems kids have with their parents. Yeah. That's right. And I'm here to tell you—I didn't get enough ...
... drunk, and then started to cry when she called him on his behavior. Sobbing in her lap, he told her that he loved her. “Sure you do,” she said with sarcasm. Suddenly he grabbed her arm and twisted it behind her back. “You're so smug ...
... drunken antics didn't touch their lives. When his grandma asked him about the empty beer and wine bottles she found in his wastebasket, he just laughed at her. He kept teasing them that he was going to bring a “nigger girl” home to meet ...
... drunken slacker he usually was. By himself, Jim would show up at dances and act like a tree—really aloof and weird. At ... drunk and abusive that the doctor walked out before he finished stitching Jimmy up. But Mary brought out 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 | |