Ebook: Mr. Mojo: a biography of Jim Morrison
Author: Jones Dylan, Morrison Jim
- Tags: Morrison Jim, 1943-1971, Doors (Musical group), Morrison Jim, 1943-1971, Rock musicians, United States, Biography, Biography: arts & entertainment, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, Music, Individual Composer & Musician, Individual composers & musicians specific bands & groups, Rock musicians, United States
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
- City: United States
- Edition: Revised edition
- Language: English
- epub
In Paris's Père-Lachaise cemetery, Jim Morrison's graffiti-scrawled tombstone is a place of pilgrimage for local devotees, adolescent hedonists and wayward backpackers alike. Found dead in his bathtub aged only 27 having achieved worldwide stardom as lead singer of The Doors, Morrison was quickly immortalised amongst the rock and roll deity such as Hendrix and Joplin. In death, however, this debauched 'rock poet' remained more stubbornly enigmatic than ever.
Who was the real Jim Morrison? Nihilist, egoist, shaman: he was a master of self-creation. A mosaic mythology of new-age hippy rhetoric, French poetry and Nietszchean symbolism obscured a man trapped by the mythology that he had so carefully constructed around himself.
In this colourful and intimate biography, Dylan Jones strips bare the skin-tight leather suit of Jim Morrison's Lizard King persona, and offers a frank and honest appraisal of a much beloved and often-romanticised counter-cultural icon....