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A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years
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November 2011
On Sale: November 1, 2011
224 pages
ISBN: 1586489453
EAN: 9781586489458
Kindle: B005OVTMYA
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Non-Fiction
A fan from the moment the Doors’ first album took over KMPX,
the revolutionary FM rock & roll station in San Francisco,
Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary
Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. Five
years later it was all over. Forty years after the singer
Jim Morrison was found dead in Paris and the group
disbanded, one could drive from here to there, changing from
one FM pop station to another, and be all but guaranteed to
hear two, three, four Doors songs in an hour—every hour.
Whatever the demands in the music, they remained
unsatisfied, in the largest sense unfinished, and absolutely
alive. There have been many books on the Doors. This is the
first to bypass their myth, their mystique, and the death
cult of both Jim Morrison and the era he was made to
personify, and focus solely on the music. It is a story
untold; all these years later, it is a new story.
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