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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 780
EAN: 9781592400997
Edition: 2005
ISBN: 159240099X
Label: Gotham
Manufacturer: Gotham
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 482
Publication Date: June 16, 2005
Publisher: Gotham
Studio: Gotham
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As the lead singer of the Doors, Jim Morrisons 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 Morrisons 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 Morrisons personal journals, Davis has assembled a vivid portrait of a misunderstood genius, tracing the arc of Morrisons 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 Morrisons 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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I went into this book really excited because I am a HUGE Morrison fan and have read everything on him as well as have loved his work seemingly as far back as I can remember. I find him to be one of the most charismatic, unique and talented rock & roll icons in the history of modern music. I feel that when he died, he took with him HIMSELF, and that his death was, and continues to be, a terrible loss for my generation who grew up with the DOORS. But for what it's worth, this book seemed to me to ... Read More
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Mr. Davis seems to want to have it both ways. He presents Morrison as an amoral and heavy disturbed alcoholic by urges the reader to take him seriously as a poet. Davis condemns Morrison in spite of himself. Page after page he portrays Morrison drinking and throwing up on people. He shows his bandmates bitterly complaining (and rightfully so)about how he was almost useless as a collaborator. And yet by the end we are supposed to think of him as a great poet and a fine human being and an effective ... Read More
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I have read many, many books about Jim and did not like this one at all. Thankfully I bought it used and did not spend much money on it. I would not recommend this book for any fan of Jim's. There are several others way better than this junk.
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The program for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through.
-Jim Morrison.
Stephen Davis is the author of the acclaimed Led Zeppelin biography Hammer of the Gods, so it was probably a no-brainer for someone to think he would write the definitive biography of Doors singer Jim Morrison. Unfortunately, that's not what happened. Jim Morrison is a derivative biography relying on the interview and research of previous biographies. It was the Morrison biography ... Read More
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This is easily the best-written of the Morrison biographies. It's much better than the absurdly amateurish and slipshod "No One Here Gets Out Alive" which, for reasons that must be due to some type of mass hypnosis, is considered a must-read on Morrison. Some Amazon reviewers have called Davis's book "NEGATIVE!" because Davis has reported Morrison's astonishing and deeply tragic alcoholism, drug use and loutish, often assaultive behavior. Frankly, if all this were left out, we'd have huge gaps in Morrison's ... Read More
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