No One Here Gets Out Alive

Posted on 14 April 2018 by Danny Sugerman

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. Download No One Here Gets Out Alive – kino-fada.fr In the age of flower power, the Summer of Love and an era in which a generation sought peace not war, The Doors came out of the darker corners of man s desire.Harbingers of evil No This is about the conduits of humanity in all its beauty and horror The Doors embodied yin and yang I found an island in your arms Country in your eyes Arms that chain Eyes that lie In No One Here Gets Out Alive, Danny Sugarman has put together the comprehensive...For about a two month period of time in 11th grade I thought that The Doors were a really good band, and that Jim Morrison was not a douche bag It was one of the dark times of my life I read this book then and really liked it Thinking back on it I know it ...I am a long time Doors fan I own all their music and still include it in my music rotation nearly 40 years after my first exposure to them Morrison was a very bright man cursed with uncommonly good looks and a ferocious thirst for large quantities of whiskey The latter led him to an early grave This book colorfully accounts for his genius and outrageous appetites that led to his early death at age 27 The author dares suggest what Doors fans find heretical Morrison wasn t a very good sing I am a long time Doors fan I own all their music and still include it in my music rotation nearly 40 years after my first exposure to them Morrison was a very bright man cursed with uncommonly good looks and a ferocious thirst for large quantities of whiskey The latter led him to an early grave This book colorfully accounts for his genius and outrageous appetites that led to his early death at age 27 The author...The most popular Doors memoir, and also the shittiest This book reeks of Sugarman s tunnel vision obsession with Jim Morrison It s not that the events described aren t factually correct, but you really get the sense that this book was written by a 14 year old poser who understood Jim or the Doors as well as a typical super fan, and no better than that I still recall my high school English teacher refused to let me write a celebrity bio on Jim because a large breasted cheerleader in my class a The most popular Doors memoir, and also the shittiest This book reeks of Sugarman s tunnel vision obsession with Jim Morrison It s not that the events described aren t factually correct, but you really get the sense that this book was written by a 14 year old poser who under...To say that many of his fans are morons that get grandiose and delusional about him is an understatement However I still find that The Doors music stands the test of time and think Morrison was a talented and interesting guy This book, while good, could have been a lot better The authors, one of whom knew Morrison personally, interviewed multiple people that were close to him and The Doors, but yet its hard get a true feel for what sort of person Morrison was underneath the front that he put To say that many of his fans are morons that get grandiose and delusional about him is an understatement However I still find that The Doors music stands the test of time and think Morrison was a talented and interesting guy This book, while good, could have been a lot better The authors, one of whom knew Morrison personally, interviewed multiple people that were close to him and The Doors, but yet its hard get a true feel for what sort of person Morrison was underneath the front that he put up Maybe this can t fully be blamed on the authors because I believe Morrison put up a wall image at a very young age and rarely if ever ventured on the other side of it One thing I liked about Morr...This is the book that is responsible for making the three surviving members of The Doors rich beyond their dreams When this came out way back in 1980, The Doors were a band many people had heard of but in general readers please note i said in general were not one mentioned in the same breath as The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, and The Beatles, probably the four biggest, most famous, and ultimately most respected and durable bands to come from the 60s Certainly the sales of their This is the book that is responsible for making the three surviving members of The Doors rich beyond their dreams When this came out way back in 1980, The Doors were a band many people had heard of but in general readers please note i said in general were not one mentioned in the same breath as The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, and The Beatles, probably the four biggest, most famous, and ultimately most respected and durable bands to come from the 60s Certainly the sales of their back catalogs bear this out But in 1980 after we had been thru the big fade of the huge arena rock dinosaurs i.e Zep and The Who would lose original m...Is everybody in Is everybody in Is everybody in The ceremony is about to beginI read this book in 1987 when a huge Doors fan in my high school science class loaned me a cassette tape of music that would forever change what I thought about fire, and pretty much everything else It became a part of my permanent collection of books and I read it a second time in August 1998 shortly after a news bite in Time magazine made note that the 30 year lease on his grave at P re Lachaise cemetery in Paris would expire on July 6, 2001 because the caretakers were tired of picking up be I read this book in 1987 when a huge Doors fan in my high school science class loaned me a cassette tape of music that would forever change what I thought about fire, and pretty much everything else It became a part of my permanent collection of books and I read it a second time in August 1998 shortly after a news bite in Time magazine made note that the 30 year lease on his grave at P re Lachaise cemetery in Paris would expire on July 6, 2001 because the caretakers were tired of picking up beer cans and condoms left in the area there The magazine tidbit pondered where Jim should go once that happened Notable suggestions included, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, Poet s Corner in Westminster Abbey,...This is the first book I m putting in my books that changed everything shelf I first saw a girl reading this on the bus from school in the 70s She must ve been in high school and I had the vague sense that it was something illicit, part of the drug culture I also remember a newspaper article that said Morrison called himself the lizard king, which I associated with satanism Somehow I got over these childhood prejudices and embraced the Doors music when I was in high school myself I was i This is the first book I m putting in my books that changed everything shelf I first saw a girl reading this on the bus from school in the 70s She must ve been in high school and I had the vague sense that it was something illicit, part of the drug culture I also remember a newspaper article that said Morrison called himself the lizard king, which I associated with satanism Somehow I got over these childhood prejudices and embraced the Doors music when I was in high school myself I was immediately drawn to the darkness of the poetic lyrics, the gothic atmosphere of The End and the untrammeled fury of When The Music s Over But reading this book was a revelation I discovered the Beats here and poets like Rimbaud, authors like Joyce and the poetry of Morrison himself The fact that he was a superst...

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14 April 2018

Danny Sugerman