This is about the conduits of humanity in all its beauty and horror. He knew them both.His death was controversial but if anybody could have faked it, it was Jim Morrison.In the age of flower power, the Summer of Love and an era in which a generation sought peace not war, The Doors came out of the darker corners of man's desire. He was the third member of the 27 club after Hendrix and Joplin. In the end Jim Morrison was a poet but lived a rock star life. Morrison wanted to be taken seriously but his destructive behaviour prevented him being bigger and better than he was. The title is a line from the anti war song Unknown Soldier. The best part for me is the analysis of the songs that evolved from his poetry and the extraordinary imagery that Morrison gave to his writing. A full discology of the Doors songs, when they were played, how they were recorded and Morrison’s behaviour throughout.Īll the major events at concerts including his arrest for lewd behaviour are recounted and the drugs and booze extravagances that Morrison put himself through. The story however is gripping and riveting and is told in three parts with image of a bow being draw, the arrow flying and dropping to the ground. Surprisingly nothing from Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger or John Densmore his fellow Doors.
This book pulls no punches and much if it is based on anecdotal stories from his friends, his women and from his younger brother. It was hard to find and a bit of a let down, but I hummed Riders on the Storm to myself and wondered. I visited his grave at the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris in 2004. I loved the Doors music and the image of Jim Morrison as it was revealed to us then, but I really didn’t know the truth about him and I guess most of it has gone to the grave. This biography comes under the same category. Plexus Publishing, 1980.Ī journalist once wrote “ the Beatles and the Stones are for blowing your mind: the Doors are for afterwards, when your mind is already gone“. No One Here Gets out Alive by Jerry Hopkins & Danny Sugerman.
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