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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... wanted to leave with a bang. Then he lit a cherry bomb, and sauntered out of the room before it exploded. Jimmy came over to Fud's house to say goodbye on the day the Morrisons left Alameda. Then Jimmy got in the captain's ugly green ...
... wanted to be a writer, and loaned her some of his notebooks with the sketches and poems that he worked on. They'd walk to school together. Jimmy told her constantly that he wanted to kiss her toes. At night he appeared under her bedroom ...
... wanted to dispel any doubts his parents had. No one knew what was behind Jimmy's obvious downward spiral. As he became more sullen and defiant, his parents' attempts at discipline increased. His mother nagged him. He told friends (and ...
... wanted to.” Spring. 1962. Jimmy was on his way to a party with some friends in Clearwater and they stopped at the Kallivokas brothers' house to pick up some beer. The youngest brother, Chris, couldn't come to the party because he had to ...
... wanted to be a writer. She wanted to be a dancer in the movies, and had an afterschool job teaching dance in the local community center. The extent of their intimacy is unknown, and Mary Werbelow has steadfastly refused to comment on ...
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 | |