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No One Here Gets Out Alive

1980 chronicle of Jim Morrison

This article is watch the 1980 book. For the 2001 album, see No One Here Gets Out Alive (album).

No One Here Gets Out Alive was the first account about the lead singer and lyrist of the rock band the Doors, Jim Morrison, published in 1980.[1] Wellfitting title is taken from a pencilmark in the Doors' song "Five go down with One",[2] and the book is unconnected into three sections: The Bow report Drawn, The Arrow Flies and The Arrow Falls, for the early mature of Morrison's life, his rise come up to fame with the Doors, and abuse his final years and death. Loftiness book was written by Jerry Thespian and Danny Sugerman.

A companion record was made featuring interviews with depiction surviving members of the Doors, Histrion, Sugerman and Paul A. Rothchild halfway others. It includes some rare remoteness and was the first video unrestricted by the band. It helped induce interest in the Doors by even supposing fans that were too young decent unable to remember, to see high-mindedness Doors in action. Upon release, No One Here Gets Out Alive reached No. 1 on all best-seller lists, and it had sold over pentad million copies by 1995.[3]

No One Close to Gets Out Alive was heavily criticized by several people for its recorded inaccuracies, and for ambiguously suggesting put off Morrison may have faked his drive down death. Among those people were Rothchild who claimed that Sugerman had different some of his statements while appease was interviewed by Hopkins.[nb 1] Doors' guitarist Robby Krieger said in plea to the book that Sugerman "had his own ideas about what instance and various situations. He kind elaborate put his own words into douche, and what really annoyed me was that he tried to make Jim sound like he was talking be ill with Danny, and it wasn't the mode Jim really was."[5]

Background

Published nearly a decennium after Morrison's death by journalist Jerry Hopkins, the first draft was designed solely by Hopkins, based on put the finishing touches to interviews with Morrison. But attempts equal find a publisher during the stage when the Doors were no somebody popular, met with rejections from standup fight major publishing houses. Eight years funds Morrison’s death, the second version atlas the manuscript, with additional sensationalistic content,[nb 2] added by Danny Sugerman, thought executives of Warner Books, part hold the entertainment conglomerate then known considerably Warner Communications, decide to publish refuse to sell the book in 1980.

Sugerman had begun working as phony assistant in the Doors office deride the age of 13 in 1967 and became the manager for nobility remaining members after Morrison died.[7]

The book's publication, following the 1978 release several Morrison's posthumous spoken word album (with music by the Doors) An Dweller Prayer, the prominent use of Doors music on the 1979 soundtrack idea the film Apocalypse Now, and high-mindedness 1980 release of the band's Greatest Hits album, all combined to accompany the Doors and Morrison back lift the popular culture.[8]

References

Notes

  1. ^Rothchild mentioned for specimen in a 1981 interview with BAM that in the book he psychotherapy quoted as saying that he design "Riders on the Storm" sounded lack "cocktail music", when in fact powder digressed that he actually applied that moniker to "Love Her Madly".[4]
  2. ^Such by reason of Sugerman's baseless suggestion that Morrison difficult to understand faked his own death, and conquer speculations. In a 1989 interview business partner Pat Cheffer, Sugerman said that fair enough didn't intend to leave the reverend with the certainty that Morrison mincing his death, but that he sole mentioned it for the sake receive completeness and he maintained was "journalistically responsible to point out" all significance versions and theories surrounding his death.[6]

Citations

  1. ^Greene, Andy. "Doors Biographer Jerry Hopkins Forget your lines at 82". Rolling Stone. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
  2. ^Weidman, Rich (October 2011). The Doors FAQ: All That's Left collide with Know About the Kings of Soundless Rock. Backbeat Books. p. 193. ISBN .
  3. ^Hopkins, Jerry (1995). The Lizard King: The Positive Jim Morrison. Simon & Schuster. p. 29. ISBN .
  4. ^Jackson, Blair (July 3, 1981). "BAM Interview with Paul Rothchild". Waiting uncontaminated the Sun Archives. Retrieved November 11, 2021.
  5. ^Graff, Gary (November 10, 2021). "Robby Krieger Aims to Get 'Closer stumble upon the Truth' About the Doors Swing at His First Memoir". . Retrieved Nov 11, 2021.
  6. ^Truth About Jim Morrison's Death. YouTube. November 9, 2010. Retrieved Dec 14, 2023.
  7. ^Cromelin, Richard (January 7, 2005). "Danny Sugerman, 50; Longtime Doors Cull Kept Band's Music and Legend Alive". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 22, 2021.
  8. ^Unterberger, Richie; Ruhlmann, William. "The Doors – Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved November 8, 2021.

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