Mr Mojo: A Biography of Jim Morrison - Dylan Jones - Books - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - 9781408860564 - April 9, 2015
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Mr Mojo: A Biography of Jim Morrison

Dylan Jones

Mr Mojo: A Biography of Jim Morrison

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 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. 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.


192 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released Storbritannien, April 9, 2015
ISBN13 9781408860564
Publishers Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 9781408860564
Genre Rock
Pages 192
Dimensions 130 × 199 × 19 mm   ·   214 g
Language English  

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