Jim Morrison. Life, Death, legend

Jim Morrison's electrifying performances, sexual adventures and thirst for psychedelic experience inspired a generation. As lead singer of the Doors, he rocketed to the top of the charts and played to sold out venues all around the world. In Jim Morrison, Stephen Davis brings together insights gleaned from dozens of original interviews, long-lost recordings, and Morrison's own unpublished journals to create a vivid portrait of a misunderstood genius. Each page brims with fascinating new details, from his troubled youth in a strict military household, to his coming of age in the avant-garde scene of 1960s LA, his epi alcohol and drug binges, and his affairs with both men and women. Compelling and harrowing, intimate and revelatory, Jim Morrison is the definitive biography of the rock god who defined the 1960s. Stephen Davis has written a book that will never let you think of the artist - or his area - in the same way again.