Jerry Hopkins

Elvis Presley is the single biggest personality in American popular culture. Over three decades after his death in August 1977, he remains the undisputed king of rocknroll. Featuring a wealth of first-hand interviews, Elvis combines Jerry Hopkinss two previous classic bestselling Elvis biographies - Elvis: A Biography and Elvis: The Final Years - with all-new material to give the definitive detailed account of Presleys fantastic life

Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors, has achieved a bizarre cult status since his death in 1971. Morrison was one of the most popular and controversial figures to emerge during the sixties; described as an erotic politician, poet, shaman, Dionysian drunk, his style and influence have grown steadily in the twenty years since his death, so that the real man has gradually disappeared behind the legend. Now, in The Lizard King: The Essential Jim Morrison, Morrisons biographer Jerry Hopkins, co-author of No One Here Gets Out Alive, reassesses Jims life and provides fresh insights into him as a human being rather than the myth that he has become. But this reassessment is only part of this remarkable book. At its heart is a series of interviews with Jim Morrison by journalists including Hopkins himself, Ben Fong-Torres, John Tobler, Bob Chorush, Salli Stevenson, Richard Goldstein and the late John Carpenter, Morrison shows himself to have been articulate, intelligent and witty. Published uncut, these interviews provide a unique insight into a man who consciously created his own myth, then lived to regret it. Stripping bare the facts from the fantasies of Jims death in Paris in 1971, and taking a long hard look at what has happened since to the people who he left behind, The Lizard King: The Essential Jim Morrison brings sharply into focus the broken dreams and unreachable ideals of one of the sixties most enduring icons.

El 3 de julio de 1971, Jim Morrison moría en París, y no de sífilis -atravesando la misma crisis demencial que sus dos grandes maestros, Rimbaud y Nietzsche-, sino envuelto en el más profundo misterio.Aqui esta Jim Morrison en toda su complejidad: cantante, filosofo, poeta, delincuente. El brillante, carismatico y obsesionado buscador que rechazo la autoridad en cualquier forma, el explorador que analizo "los limites de la realidad para ver que pasaria".Tras siete años de trabajo, esta biografia mundialmente famosa y definitiva, es la obra de dos hombres cuya empatia y experiencia con Jim Morrison los preparo para contar esta tragedia moderna: Jerry Hopkins, que mantuvo una extensa entrevista con Morrison poco antes de su muerte, y Danny Sugerman, confidente y asistente en el estudio del grupo desde los trece años.Esta obra no aclara el mito, no desvela grandes secretos o relatos perturbadores, simplemente nos acerca a la figura de este dios del rock, durante los veintisiete años que pudo o quiso vivir, sumergidos en sonidos psicodelicos, drogas, mujeres, conciertos, poesia, bourbon y un impresionante magnetismo que aun hoy mantiene atrapadas a miles de personas. La historia de un joven cuya corta vida y muerte encapsularon los altos y bajos de los miticos años sesenta.