num_pages: 352
description: Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison met in the early sixties as film students at the University of California, L.A. Together they took a heady trip into psychedelic and visionary world filled with LSD, marijuana, poetry and music. And so the creative energy and unique sound of the Doors was born. An inspirational and intimate partnership, the two friends were rarely apart until Jim Morrison's early and tragic death in Paris in 1971.Light My Fire is the ultimate inside story of the wild and nihilistic life of the Lizard King and the Doors told by the only one who was there from the beginning. From the early days spent jamming by the surf on Venice Beach to the high glamour and excess of Warhol's parties, Manzarek brings to life the explosive times, the enigmatic lead singer, and the magic circle that was the Doors.'Literate, perceptive, and thoughtful, this is the best book yet about the Doors and their legendary singer'Mike Trigby, Booklist'The prose skips to a distinctly Kerouac beat, with a genuine passion in portraying some extraordinary times'Peter Kane, Q Magazine
language: English
title: Light My Fire : My Life With the 'Doors
titlecomplete: Light My Fire : My Life With the 'Doors
genres: Biography, Poetry, Music, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, 20th Century, Pop Culture, History
ratings_count: 2299
publisher: Berkley Boulevard Books