'An attempt to retell an oft-told tale, this time informed by a desire to suck the hot air out of the more inflated earlier versions . . . this late-arriving history is perhaps the most reliable, and certainly the most entertaining, of all' GuardianFew bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fact from fiction has been a virtually impossible task. But now, after fifty years, The Doors' notoriously quiet guitarist i...

Robby Krieger, legendärer Doors-Gitarrist und vom Rolling Stone zu den 100 größten Gitarristen aller Zeiten gezählt, bricht nach über 50 Jahren sein Schweigen, um Fakten und Fiktion zu trennen und seine Geschichte von der kometenhaften Karriere seiner Band, seinen eigenen dunkelsten Momenten und dem berühmtesten blauen Auge des Rock 'n' Roll zu erzählen. Robby Krieger nimmt die Leser mit an die Orte des Geschehens: das Pfandhaus, in dem er seine erste Gitarre kaufte.

Che ci faceva un tranquillo ragazzo di buona famiglia al fianco di Jim Morrison? In effetti Robby Krieger, chitarrista dei Doors e coautore di alcune delle loro canzoni più celebri, è sempre stato un tipo taciturno, mai troppo interessato alle attenzioni dei media. E forse proprio per questo è la fonte più attendibile per scoprire la vera storia dei Doors, una band la cui carriera è sempre stata offuscata da eccessi, esagerazioni e leggende.In queste pagine irresistibili, Krieger ra...

Robby Krieger rescata del olvido sus experiencias con The Doors durante los años más salvajes del rock. A través de capítulos breves, llenos de humor y de revelaciones, el legendario guitarrista nos conduce al origen de la banda y sus momentos más asombrosos: la casa de empeños donde compró su primera guitarra; la celda a la que fue arrojado de adolescente tras una redada de drogas; la sala de estar donde tuvieron lugar los primeros ensayos de The Doors; las discusiones con camellos de Jim...

'An attempt to retell an oft-told tale, this time informed by a desire to suck the hot air out of the more inflated earlier versions . . . this late-arriving history is perhaps the most reliable, and certainly the most entertaining, of all' GuardianFew bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fact from fiction has been a virtually impossible task. But now, after fifty years, The Doors' notoriously quiet guitarist i...