Monday, 21 November 2011 14:40
Digitally Remastered Edition of "No One Here Gets Out Alive"
Plexus are set to release a digitally remastered edition of No One Here Gets Out Alive. A former New York Times number-one bestseller, this acclaimed biography of Doors singer Jim Morrison was adapted by director Oliver Stone for his 1991 film The Doors, which starred Val Kilmer as Morrison.
Written by Jerry Hopkins, a veteran Rolling Stone journalist and author who interviewed Morrison on multiple occasions, and Danny Sugerman, a long-time confidant of Morrison’s, No One Here Gets Out Alive is the definitive account of Morrison’s life and death, and upon its original publication in 1980 was the first music biography ever to become an international bestseller. There are now more than two million copies of the book in print.
As well as an updated Discography and Film and Book lists, the forthcoming digitally remastered edition of the book features restored and enhanced photographs, a new Foreword by Danny Sugerman, an Epilogue by Jerry Hopkins and an Afterword by poet Michael McClure (who was a good friend of Morrison’s during his lifetime).
For a more detailed description of the book, see below:
Jim Morrison — singer, philosopher, poet, delinquent — is here in all his complexity, the brilliant and the obsessive disciple of darkness who rejected authority and probed ‘the bounds of reality to see what would happen’. Jim Morrison was lead singer of the Doors, one of the most popular and controversial rock groups of the late sixties.
Worshipped by the fans, hated by the establishment, hounded by the media, Morrison stood for all the unpredictable and forbidden excitement that youth dreamed of. No One Here Gets Out Alive strips bare the facts from the fantasies of his life and mysterious death in Paris in 1971, exposing the myth-maker who was both hailed as a poet of the counter culture and reviled as a corruptor of youth.
The authors are uniquely qualified to write this modern tragedy; Jerry Hopkins is an experienced rock writer and author of the best-selling Presley biography Elvis, Daniel Sugerman is a long-time Doors expert and a confidant of Jim Morrison during the singer’s lifetime. Together they tell the story of a reckless genius who shot like a rocket through the musical sky and fell into burning fragments as his life finally went out of control.
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