No One Here Gets Out Alive
by Jerry Hopkins, Danny Sugerman
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Author: Danny Sugerman, Jerry HopkinsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-14
ISBN: 0446697338
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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- ISBN13: 9780446697330
- Condition: New
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Book Review: A good introduction to Morrison
Summary: 4 Stars
I read this book in high school when it first came out. At that point Morrison had been dead for about a decade and had faded from the general public memory except for the occasional playing of "Break on Through" or "Light my Fire" as classic radio oldies. Therefore, when people my age (I was about 15) stumbled on old Doors albums or any information about Jim's seemingly tragic life we tended to be intrigued that there was more to Jim than just a couple of Top 40 hits and we wanted to know more. Those of us who happened to be girls were also mesmerized by the photos of Jim showing an incredibly sexy and attractive man. Needless to say, when this book came out we were all over it. I remember at least two copies of this book circulating among my Catholic girls' high school peers for weeks, even being read by girls who were not normally into rock history. I would say this book contributed quite a bit to Jim getting a latter-day cult following of people way too young to have known who he was the first time around.
This book is a fast-paced read, co-written by Danny Sugerman who knew Jim and the Doors personally and worked for them before and after Jim's death. If you don't know much about Morrison this book is a great place to start, as it covers all the major events of his life from his childhood through his untimely death.
Since this book was written and Jim proved to be a hot commodity (anyone remember the posthumous Rolling Stone cover, "Jim Morrison: He's hot, he's sexy and he's dead"), many other Doors books have followed, including ones by ex-bandmate John Densmore, ex-girlfriend Patricia Kennealy, and another by Danny Sugerman. These books for the most part expand on or give more details about events already recounted in "No One Here Gets Out Alive". As such, people looking for more details about Morrison might be more interested in the later books and find this one lacking now that many other references are available, which was certainly not the case when the book first came out. This book is still good as an introduction to Jim's life or for the casual reader just looking for a good rock book with the requisite doses of glamour and excess.
One interesting aspect of this book is that while Sugerman knew Jim personally and (as shown by his own memoir, "Wonderland Avenue") had generally positive experiences with him, the book doesn't try to sugarcoat Jim or play down his bad points. In fact he comes off worse in this book than he does in a lot of other Jim/ Doors books.
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