Bibliograph

Love becomes a funeral pyre, a biography of The Doors, Mick Wall

Type

Label

Love becomes a funeral pyre, a biography of The Doors, Mick Wall

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-398) and index

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collective biography

Illustrations

platesillustrationsphotographs

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Love becomes a funeral pyre

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Mick Wall

Sub title

a biography of The Doors

Summary

Spanning the entire history of the Doors, this book will long remain the definitive biography of a band that forever changed popular music. But it’s not the story you think you know. Yes, Jim Morrison died in Paris in 1971—but not in a bathtub. The other Doors were saddened and shocked but had already fired him anyway. It wasn’t Jim who wrote the hits; it was guitarist Robby Krieger. It wasn’t Jim who saw a bright, acid-flared future for the band but keyboardist Ray Manzarek. And so, the band that started out as the American Rolling Stones, noted for their wildly unpredictable performances, their jazzy vibe, and the crazed monologues of their front man, ended as badly as did the sixties: abruptly, bloodily, cripplingly

Target audience

adult

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Biography of The Doors

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