The Lizard King: The Essential Jim Morrison - Couverture souple

Hopkins, Jerry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0859654400 ISBN 13 : 9780859654401

Editeur : Plexus Publishing Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors, has achieved a bizarre cult status since his death in 1971. Morrison was one of the most popular and controversial figures to emerge during the sixties; described as an 'erotic politician', poet, shaman, Dionysian drunk, his style and influence have grown steadily in the twenty years since his death, so that the real man has gradually disappeared behind the legend. Now, in The Lizard King: The Essential Jim Morrison, Morrison's biographer Jerry Hopkins, co-author of No One Here Gets Out Alive, reassesses Jim's life and provides fresh insights into him as a human being rather than the myth that he has become. But this reassessment is only part of this remarkable book. At its heart is a series of interviews with Jim Morrison by journalists including Hopkins himself, Ben Fong-Torres, John Tobler, Bob Chorush, Salli Stevenson, Richard Goldstein and the late John Carpenter, Morrison shows himself to have been articulate, intelligent and witty. Published uncut, these interviews provide a unique insight into a man who consciously created his own myth, then lived to regret it. Stripping bare the facts from the fantasies of Jim's death in Paris in 1971, and taking a long hard look at what has happened since to the people who he left behind, The Lizard King: The Essential Jim Morrison brings sharply into focus the broken dreams and unreachable ideals of one of the sixties' most enduring icons.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jerry Hopkins is co-author of the bestselling biography of Jim Morrison, No One Here Gets Out Alive, which spent nine months on The New York Times bestseller list on publication in 1980 and three months on the list after reissue in 1991.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Plexus Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0859654400
• ISBN 13: 9780859654401
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible