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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... screams of violence and despair, amid the brutality of the Vietnam War. Alone of his generation, Jim's power depended not just on the surge of his poetry with the blinding charisma of his amplified performances, but also on the sheer ...
... scream as the cops teargas the kids who can't get in. Suddenly a whitehot light pierces the gloom and a jellied scream rips open an abyss of despair and fury. The Doors are in town tonight, and Jim Morrison is acting out his epic pathos ...
... screams and outbursts that peppered the texts, driving everyone around him crazy. Jimmy's slouched deportment, extreme lack of eye contact, and sarcastic and insolent attitude drove his parents to distraction. His sniggering and public ...
... scream at him until he laughed at her. She asked him why he played games with her all the time. He told her, “Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal.” Soon he was bullying Tandy the way he bullied his younger brother. Jim ...
... scream when they thought he was falling. At one party he cut himself doing a knife trick. Taken to the emergency room, he was so drunk and abusive that the doctor walked out before he finished stitching Jimmy up. But Mary brought out ...
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 | |