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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... took to stand up to society and challenge its hypocritical, constipated moral values in a time of dangerous upheaval. Alone of the sixties rock stars, Jim Morrison didn't see his mission as a show. “For me, it was never an act, those ...
... took this verbal punishment with dry eyes. Jimmy's behavior was a family flashpoint, with his mother as the lightning rod and designated scapegoat. In 1969, at a chaotic Doors concert in Seattle, a drunk and upset Jim Morrison waved the ...
... took Jimmy to Duo Records, an R & B record store in Oakland, where Jimmy first heard Chicago blues stars Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, and New Orleans legends like Professor Longhair. Jimmy and Fud read On the Road and plugged into its ...
... took up painting after stealing a set of brushes and paints from an art supply store, executing several primitive selfportraits in which his face is a contorted rictus of demented mirth, and he's wearing a crown. He worked at this ...
... took no interest in the November presidential election—hotly debated in his politically conservative school—in which John Kennedy beat Richard Nixon and injected a new vigor into American political life. Jimmy later wrote in a notebook ...
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 | |