No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins, Danny Sugarman

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A world of superstars, megabucks, and instant fame, rock music has always been a genre of excess. Yet, even by rock standards, Jim Morrison lived large--embracing life with a hedonistic fervor that seemed extreme even to those who knew him best. Lead singer for the Doors, one of the most successful musical groups of the 1960s, Morrison incorporated theater, psychology, and politics into his performances, breaking all the rules on and off the stage and taking no prisoners in his wild pursuit of pleasure, pain, tragedy, and hope. Written by two noted rock journalists, this book is the definitive biography of an enduring icon of contemporary culture. From his birth in Virginia in 1943 to his death in Paris 28 years later, here is the unvarnished, compelling, and uncompromising story of the passionate poet/shaman who exploded into and out of our lives like a shooting star, leaving behind a trail of light still visible today. Filled with dozens of b&w photographs.

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Here is Jim Morrison in all his complexity-singer, philosopher, poet, delinquent-the brilliant, charismatic, and obsessed seeker who rejected authority in any form, the explorer who probed "the bounds of reality to see what would happen..." Seven years in the writing, this definitive biography is the work of two men whose empathy and experience with Jim Morrison uniquely prepared them to recount this modern tragedy: Jerry Hopkins, whose famous Presley biography, Elvis, was inspired by Morrison's suggestion, and Danny Sugerman, confidant of and aide to the Doors. With an afterword by Michael McClure.

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