Title
Love becomes a funeral pyre : a biography of The Doors / Mick Wall.
ISBN
9781613734087 hardcover
1613734085 hardcover
Published
Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, 2015.
Language
English
Description
vii, 408 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Call Number
ML421.D66 W35 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
782.42166092/2 B
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, "--Amazon.com.
The definitive biography of The Doors, a band that forever changed popular music ... but it's not the story you think you know. The band that started out 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. It wasn't Morrison who wrote the hits: it was guitarist Robby Krieger. It wasn't Morrison who saw a bright, acid-flared future for the band, but keyboardist Ray Manzarek. Wall captures the true spirit of that tarnished age with a brilliantly penetrating and contemporary investigation into the real story of The Doors.
Note
"An A Cappella book."
"First published by The Orion Publishing Group, London, 2014."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Locked. Paris, 1971 ; Ray of light ; Souls of the ghosts ; Hands upon the wheel ; Give this man a ride ; Swimming to the moon ; Sexy motherfucker in black pants ; Driver, where you taking us?
Unlocked. Suck my mama ; Young lions ; Winter of love ; Jimbo rising ; Dog without a bone ; Out on the perimeter ; Hit me, babe
Broken. The thin raft ; Can you give me sanctuary? ; The witching hour ; Killer on the road ; La mort blanche ; The calm calculus of reason
Stoned immaculate.
