Mr. Mojo: A Biography of Jim Morrison - Softcover

Jones, Dylan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1632862441 ISBN 13: 9781632862440

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2015

Synopsis

In Paris's Pere-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 at only twenty-seven, having achieved worldwide stardom as lead singer of the Doors, Morrison was quickly immortalized among the rock and roll deities 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 hippie rhetoric, French poetry, and Nietszchean symbolism obscured a man trapped by the mythology that he had so carefully constructed around himself.

In this colorful and intimate biography, Dylan Jones strips bare the skintight leather suit of Jim Morrison's Lizard King persona, and offers a frank and honest appraisal of a much beloved and often-romanticized countercultural icon. Mr. Mojo is littered with little-known anecdotes from fellow stars, spurned lovers, and industry moguls. It is a refreshingly honest portrait of a self-indulgent artist with a penchant for pageantry and public self-destruction.

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Review:

"A perceptive and thorough examination of both the man and the music." --"NME"

"A highly engaging and refreshingly irreverent portrait of the Doors' frontman." --"i-D"

A perceptive and thorough examination of both the man and the music. "NME"

A highly engaging and refreshingly irreverent portrait of the Doors' frontman. "i-D""

A perceptive and thorough examination of both the man and the music. NME

A highly engaging and refreshingly irreverent portrait of the Doors' frontman. i-D

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"A perceptive and thorough examination of both the man and the music." --NME

"A highly engaging and refreshingly irreverent portrait of the Doors' frontman." --i-D

Book Description:

A revealing biography of Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors and a musical icon

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1632862441
• ISBN 13: 9781632862440
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184