With a Grain of Salt Mick Wall’s new biography of The Doors “Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre” starts with a sensational scene, Jim Morrison’s body being dragged out of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus in the early morning hours of July 3, 1971.
It wasn’t Jim who saw a bright, acid-flared future for the band but keyboardist Ray Manzarek.Īnd so, the band that started out as the “American Rolling Stones,” noted for their wildly unpredictable performances, their jazzy vibe, and the crazed monologues of their front man, ended as badly as did the sixties: abruptly, bloodily, cripplingly.Īlong with evoking the cultural milieu of Los Angeles in the sixties, in Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre bestselling writer Mick Wall captures the true spirit of that tarnished age with a brilliantly penetrating and contemporary investigation into the real story of the Doors. It wasn’t Jim who wrote the hits it was guitarist Robby Krieger. The other Doors were saddened and shocked but had already fired him anyway. Yes, Jim Morrison died in Paris in 1971-but not in a bathtub. But it’s not the story you think you know. It wasn’t Jim who wrote the hits it was guitarist Robb Spanning the entire history of the Doors, this book will long remain the definitive biography of a band that forever changed popular music. Spanning the entire history of the Doors, this book will long remain the definitive biography of a band that forever changed popular music.
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