Jim Morrison

Author: Stephen Davis
Category: General
ISBN: 9781592400997
Format : Paperback
Publisher : Gotham Books

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With JIM MORRISON, author Stephen Davis captures Jim Morrison's metamorphosis from the rebellious child of a Navy family into his legendary Lizard King character in all its messy detail, from the singer's frequent humiliations as the Doors try to gain an initial foothold on the LA club scene, to his hypnotic, chaotic late-1960s stage performances. Davis unerringly catches Morrison's mass of contradictions--a figure devastatingly attractive to both sexes who later reduces his body to an alcoholic, bloated travesty, he's by turns shaman-like and stumblingly incoherent, and for the most part completely unable to live up to the rock& roll prophet persona constructed for him by his admirers. His agonizing decline is caught here in all its slow-motion, horror-filled fascination by Davis's dispassionate narrative; when his decade-long spiral of self-destructive behavior reaches its ultimate conclusion in a heroin overdose in a Parisian apartment, the only surprise is that it hasn't happened earlier. This extensive and authoritative account of the life, music, influence, and mysterious death of the iconic Doors singer is an evocative journey through the dark heart of the 1960s.

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Brand new, As published by Gotham. Paperback edition.496 pages. Book Size: Length: 7 inches, Width 5 Height inches 1 Inches. Book weight: 1 pounds. This book will require no additional postage. Orders processed on AbeBooks Monday - Friday and ships 6 days a week. Synopsis: 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. 13 Digit ISBN number: 9781592400997. 10 Digit ISBN: 159240099X.

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