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Love becomes a funeral pyre : a biography of the Doors / Mick Wall.

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Orion Publishing Co, c2014.

781.660922 D691w

Doors (Musical group)

Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography.

9781409151227 (hc.)

9781409151234 (pbk.)

512 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Think you know the story of Jim Morrison and The Doors? Think again. 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 that wrote the hits, it was guitarist Robby Krieger. It wasn't Jim that saw a bright, acid-flared future for the band but keyboardist Ray Manzarek. And it sure as hell wasn't drummer John Densmore that was going to jail for causing a riot at a concert in Miami - that was Jim. And so, the band that started out as the 'American Rolling Stones' ended as badly as did the Sixties: abruptly, bloodily, cripplingly - a startling decade that the music and story of The Doors both defined and helped vilify. Along with evoking the cultural milieu of Los Angeles in the Sixties, in Love Becomes A Funeral Pyre writer Mick Wall captures the true spirit of that tarnished age with a brilliantly penetrating and contemporary investigation into the real story of The Doors." --Jacket.

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