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Book

Love becomes a funeral pyre : a biography of The Doors

Author

Mick Wall

Call Number

  • 782.42166 D6919W (CEN)

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Publication Information

Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, 2015.

Physical Description

vii, 408 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes

"An A Cappella book."

"First published by The Orion Publishing Group, London, 2014" --Title page verso.

Contents

  • Locked. Paris, 1971 ; Ray of light ; Souls of the ghosts ; Hands upon the wheel ; Give this man a ride ; Swimming to the moon ; Sexy motherfucker in black pants ; Driver, where you taking us?
  • Unlocked. Suck my mama ; Young lions ; Winter of love ; Jimbo rising ; Dog without a bone ; Out on the perimeter ; Hit me, babe
  • Broken. The thin raft ; Can you give me sanctuary? ; The witching hour ; Killer on the road ; La mort blanche ; The calm calculus of reason
  • Stoned immaculate.

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