Jim Morrison: Dark Star - Hardcover

Jones, Dylan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670834548 ISBN 13: 9780670834549

Publisher: Viking Studio Books, 1991

Synopsis

An illustrated biography of the lead singer of The Doors discusses the Jim Morrison myth, the music he created, his alcoholism, his self-image, and his mysterious death in Paris in 1971. Reprint.

About this title

From Library Journal:

Here is yet another book about Jim Morrison. What has Jones done that Morrison's other biographers haven't? First, he includes tons of photographs , with many shots in color and many available for the first time, e.g., family portraits. There are also plenty of shots of the Lizard King smiling, which we don't see too often. Second, Jones devotes considerable space to Morrison's grave site in Paris's Pere-Lachaise cemetery, usually so mobbed that Morrison seems to have as many followers as Jesus Christ. The description of this adolescent and subculture mecca is enough to make one wonder about Morrison's continued power. In fact, Jones's comments are often harshly critical of the man and his work. This criticism will be almost a relief to the many seasoned fans who have begun to suspect that Morrison was not as great as they had thought. Yet at times even Jones becomes so adulatory that his book loses its balance as fair criticism of a major late-20th-century pop culture figure, and falls to nothing more than what you would expect--idol worship. Still, Jones has his finer moments. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 12/90.
- Louis Cone, New York
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Studio Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0670834548
• ISBN 13: 9780670834549
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192