Book description
Jim Morrison's electrifying live performances, and appetite for
sexual and psychedelic experience enflamed the spirit of a generation.
In Jim Morrison, critically acclaimed journalist Stephen Davis
brings together insights gleaned from dozens of original interviews,
long-lost recordings, and Morrison's own unpublished journals to
create a vivid portrait of a misunderstood genius.
Each page brims with new details on every phase of Morrison's life,
from his troubled youth in a strict military household, to his coming
of age in the avant-garde scene of 1960s LA, his epic alcohol and drug
binges, and sexual affairs.
In a gripping final chapter, Davis synthesizes new evidence recently
uncovered in Paris to resolve at last many of the mysteries
surrounding Morrison's death, and reconstructs the final days and
hours of America's greatest rock star. Compelling and harrowing,
intimate and revelatory, Jim Morrison is the definitive
biography of the rock god who defined the 1960s.
Stephen Davis's many acclaimed books include the classic Led Zeppelin
biography
Hammer of the Gods
, the Rolling Stones history
Old Gods Almost Dead,
as well as the New York Times bestsellers
Walk This Way
(with Aerosmith), and
Fleetwood
(with Mick Fleetwood). He lives in Boston.
