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Book Synopsis______________A perceptive and thorough examination of both the man and the music' ? NMEA highly engaging and refreshingly irreverent portrait of the Doors'' frontman'? i-D______________A revealing biography of Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors and a musical iconIn Paris's Père-Lachaise cemetery, Jim Morrison's graffiti-scrawled tombstone is a place of pilgrimage for local devotees, adolescent hedonists and wayward backpackers alike. Found dead in his bathtub aged only 27 having achieved worldwide stardom as lead singer of
The Doors, Morrison was quickly immortalised amongst the rock and roll deity such as Hendrix and Joplin. In death, however, this debauched rock poet' remained more stubbornly enigmatic than ever. Who was the
real Jim Morrison? Nihilist, egoist, shaman: he was a master of self-creation. A mosaic mythology of new-age hippy rhetoric, French poetry and Nietszchean symbolism obscured a man trapped by th
Trade ReviewA perceptive and thorough examination of both the man and the music * NME *
A highly engaging and refreshingly irreverent portrait of the Doors' frontman * i-D *
