At the age of thirteen, Danny Sugerman- the already wayward product of Beverley Hills wealth and privilege- went to his first Doors concert. He never looked back. He became Jim Morrison's protégé and- still in his teens- manager of the Doors and then Iggy Pop. He also plunged gleefully into the glamorous underworld of the rock 'n' roll scene, diving headfirst into booze, sex and drugs: every conceivable kind of drug, ever day, in every possible permutation.By the age of twenty-one ...

El 3 de julio de 1971, Jim Morrison moría en París, y no de sífilis -atravesando la misma crisis demencial que sus dos grandes maestros, Rimbaud y Nietzsche-, sino envuelto en el más profundo misterio.Aquí está Jim Morrison en toda su complejidad: cantante, filósofo, poeta, delincuente. El brillante, carismático y obsesionado buscador que rechazó la autoridad en cualquier forma, el explorador que analizó "los límites de la realidad para ver qué pas...

Jim Morrison em toda a sua complexidade: cantor, filósofo, poeta, delinquente... O fundador do The Doors protagonizou uma das histórias mais emblemáticas do rock, uma tragédia moderna que o elevou à condição de lenda. Carismático, brilhante, genial e genioso, Jim rejeitou todas as formas de autoridade e, como um explorador obcecado, testou "os limites da realidade para ver o que aconteceria". Escrito por Jerry Hopkins, autor de uma aclamada biografia de Elvis Presley, e Danny Sugerman, con...

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 Morr...

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 Morr...