Biography on jim morrison of the doors
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Break on Through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison
Tortured visionary and bumbling drunk--two sides of ``The Lizard King'' that emerge from this lengthy but less-than-probing biography of the late rock star. Riordan (a Rolling Stone contributor) and Prochnicky (a self-professed veteran Morrison scholar) attempt to retrace Morrison's ``aural, visual, and psychological journey'' through ``a fun house mirror'' of Sixties-style metaphysics. They recount Morrison's repressive childhood under a Navy captain father, his youth as school misfit and troublemaker, his post-college life as a Venice beach-bum, and his subsequent descent into an acid- inspired ``spiritual netherworld.'' Morrison comes across as an insecure but creatively driven man prone to extreme mood swings, and an emotional manipulator who ``e
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Jim Morrison was the lead singer of The Doors from to his untimely death in , and is known for his unique röst and presence on the blues and psychedelic rock scene. He was also known as &#;The Lizard King&#; and &#;Mr Mojo Risin&#;, an anagram of his name, and became iconic in his representation of ungdom counter-culture.
Family life and influences
Jim Morrison was born as James Douglas Morrison on December the 8th, , to parents Clara Virginia and George Stephen in Melbourne, Florida. He had two younger siblings, a sister, Anne, and a brother, Andrew. In terms of the formative events of his early life, Jim often put much emphasis on an accident that he witnessed as a child, when a truck overturned and left a group of Native Americans bleeding at the side of the desert highway.
Many references to this particular event are made in songs produced bygd The Doors, namely &#;Peace Frog&#; from the Morrison Hotel skiva in &#;
&#;Indians scattered on dawn&#;s highway bleeding
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Jim Morrison: The Rolling Stone Interview
&#;The Collected Works of Jim Morrison&#;: Massive New Collection of Doors Singer&#;s Writings
Few performers have been so consistently controversial as James Douglas Morrison, the vocalist and songwriter of the Doors. And none has caused so many writers to construct so much gothic imagery in an effort to describe the mystique.
In the Village Voice, for instance, one chronicler said Morrison was the &#;first major male sex symbol since James Dean died and Marlon Brando got a paunch&#; and another called him at (different times) a &#;leather tiger,&#; a &#;shaman-serpent king&#; and &#;America&#;s Oedipal nightingale.&#; In Eye, he was described as a &#;demonic vision out of a medieval Hellmouth&#; and the author of a book about the Doors called him &#;the Sex-death, Acid-Evangelist of Rock, a sort of Hell&#;s Angel of the groin.&#; While the Miami Herald tagged him &#;The King of Orgasmic Rock,&#; Joyce Haber dubbed him &#;the swi