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Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors, has achieved a bizarre cult status since his death in 1971. In The Lizard King: The Essential Jim Morrison, Jerry Hopkins provides a new insight into Morrison’s life, peeling away the myth to reveal the intelligent, witty but flawed character beneath. Hopkins has also collected an illuminating series of interviews made with Morrison during his lifetime, which, published uncut, allow the man to speak for himself at last. It is time to re-examine Morrison’s enduring influence on youth culture, and to evaluate his standing as poet, philosopher, filmmaker and sex symbol.
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'A refreshing addition to the already large shelf of books about The Doors and their lead singer. Neither mythmaker nor debunker, Hopkins views Morrison as a talented yet disturbed person, easy to dislike but impossible to dismiss . . . His polished style and sense of balance, evident throughout, add luster to this well explored subject.' - Publishers Weekly
'It seems appropriate that Hopkins, who co-authored No One Here Gets Out Alive, offered the first mainstream Morrison biography and the basis for Oliver Stone's 1991 film The Doors... Hopkins hits all the biographical high-water marks and provides new information regarding Morrison's family, the infamous Miami trial and, most importantly, Morrison's death, which was ambiguously treated in the previous book. Ultimately, the explication of the man who would be Lizard King is best left to Morrison himself, and the collection of seven interviews that follow the narrative yields the most insight ... this is a solid contribution to the burgeoning Morrison/Doors canon.' - Library Journal
'Hopkins, the coauthor of the five-million-copy bestseller No One Here Gets Out Alive, presents startling new material he has unearthed about Jim Morrison, notorious lead singer of The Doors. Hopkins now reassesses Morrison's life and death and provides insights on Morrison the human being.' - Ingram
Author Biography
Jerry Hopkins was co-author of the bestselling biography of Jim Morrison, No One Here Gets Out Alive, which spent nine months on The New York Times bestseller list on publication in 1980 and three months on the list after reissue in 1991.
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- Publisher Plexus Publishing Ltd.
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780859654401
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 14.99 GBP
- Pages304
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleEnglish
- Original Language AuthorsEnglish
- EditionRevised and Updated
- Dimensions230x150 mm
- Illustration80 photos
