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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... poet shaking with rage at his world and his contemporaries; a prophet with terrible eyes and rigid features, clad in black leather. He was arguably the major poet to emerge from the turmoil of the legendary American sixties. Decades ...
... poet. Looking closer, it becomes clear that Jim Morrison's early fury and mania gradually evolved into a kind of artistic maturity, one that was more keenly experienced and aggressively lovely—and prophetically fatal. This book seeks to ...
... poet Jim Morrison are parried by California attorneys claiming to represent his estate. The Morrison family's wall of silence has immured Jim's childhood, especially his tense and unhappy adolescence, since the day he died. This shouldn ...
... poet whose magical Celtic cadences and lush imagery had spread via the new technology of longplaying phonograph records as much as through printed books, before he drank himself to death in Greenwich Village in 1953. They were also in ...
... poet and author of A Coney Island of the Mind returned his greeting, Jimmy turned red with pleasure. He and Fud would go to Stairway Records in Oakland to buy Dylan Thomas LPs on Caedmon, or comedy albums by Tom Lehrer or Lenny Bruce ...
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 | |