Jim Morrison

By: Stephen Davis

Narrated by: Paul Michael

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.

©2004 Stephen Davis; (P)2004 Penguin Audio and Books on Tape, Inc.

Great story

I've read most of the Morrison bios. This one is the best one. Seems very well researched and told very well. Don't waste your time with that no one here gets out alive. I loved it when I was a kid but now I can see how lame it is. In particular the audio version. No offense to Sugarman, who reads the audio, but he is unlistenable. His hippy dialect is unbelievably annoying.

A Pretty Interesting Read

I fpund the book to be very well written. Though I do wonder if a certain part of morrisons life was left our - the artistic poetic side of his personality. It may seem mundane to some, but it might have been much more interesting.
All in alll worth a read.

Hypnotic!

A Great book! Highly recommended! I was completely memorized. I didn't want it to end.

one of the best on Jim

I've read and listened to quite a few but this is probably the best book on Jim I've come across.

What a gem!

I could not get enough of this book. It flowed beautifully and was so conversational I found myself talking back to the narrator like a friend,
There are not enough stars for this!!