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Jim was one f'ed up dude. Who knew he had an 146 IQ. Could drink like a fish. Did find some of the questions about his death interesting. Lot of credit to his band mates for putting up with him. Seeems like he had a lot of anger.

A well written book about the life and mystery surrounding Jim Morrison

To look at this coffee table sized book with Elvis smiling on the cover, you'd think this would be a fluffy story of the making of Blue Hawaii and the comeback special and how Elvis is still a big tourist draw to the islands. Those subjects are covered, but as Hopkins was with Rolling Stone magazine for twenty years, he dug deeper and is sometimes critical about what he finds, especially with the two follow-up Hawaiian movies.
This book is filled with very rare photos that even a big fan may never have seen before, such as Elvis aboard the ship to his first visit to the islands in 1957. There's the story about the local rock radio station's publicity stunt for Elvis' first concert there, with the station's engineer dressing like Elvis and wearing a black wig while another employee dressed as Col. Tom Parker. They were chauffeured around the island in a convertible while the station kept reporting on Elvis sightings. "Elvis" came to the radio station, located at the top of a fourteen story hotel, wiggled for the screaming crowd below, then pulled his wig off and dropped it to them. Stunned silence.
Elvis' last visit to the islands, just months before his death and with an entourage of thirty-one people, is remembered by a long-time friend. There's also a few pages of Elvis-in-Hawaii collectibles.½

I like to think about what Jim Morrison might have done with the rest of his life if it’s true he faked his death to escape. Painter? Poet? Philosophy teacher?

I’d like his disapproving Dad to know that I’m almost 60 and I can remember so many Doors songs because of the deep and weird lyrics delivered in that soulful voice. There was plenty of talent there, Admiral. Too bad you cared about hair length more than you did your son.

I attempted to start this a couple of times, but struggled to get into it mostly due to how badly written it is. It is sporadic in its anecdotes, some of them feel like they don't have a point. There are a lot of people mentioned, many whom aren't introduced, so as a reader I was unsure what relevance they had to Jim Morrison or to the event begin spoken about. But I did wonder if the chaotic way in which this was written was deliberate, to try and give an idea what it was like being around Jim Morrison and in that period of time in the late 60s, early 70s - a reflection of the time and the man.

I did enjoy the insight, although I had hoped to have a clearer idea about his demise, but it seems it will always be shrouded in mystery. The only thing I can be sure of is that with the quantity of alcohol and drugs Jim consumed, if he had faked his death, he probably wouldn't have survived for many years after. An interesting read, although a difficult one at times, which didn't flow well.

I mostly remember this book because I got one of my favorite quotes from it. But I did enjoy it.

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If you're a fan of the Doors then you can;t do worse than pick this up. It's an interesting read detailing the history of the band and the trials and tribulations of Jim Morrison.

It is hard not to admire Morrison in some sense. Thoughtful, creative and talented. We all know how the story ends. Well written book though. One of the better Morrison volumes.

The book was first published in 1980 and its authors are respectively a rock writer and a personal friend of Morrison’s, so its credentials are pretty good. As a child of the mid-’80s who missed out on all the fun of the late ’60s and early ’70s, I thought it gave a rich flavour of the times: the drugs, the controversy, the radicalism and, perhaps most surprisingly, the incredible innocence. But there are drawbacks. This is not the kind of moderate, arm’s length, balanced biography that I’m used to. It verges on hagiography...

For the full review, please see my blog:
https://theidlewoman.net/2014/07/30/no-one-here-gets-out-alive-jerry-hopkins-and...

Biography of Jim Morrison. Not much to say...if you like the Doors or Jim Morrison, I'm sure you'll like it!
I was way into Jim and the doors when I was in 8th and 9th grade. Probably not a good thing...his life seems so glamorous, which works if you're of age and a rock legend. It doesn't work that way when you're 13.

Terrible book. No index, no chapters, not rational order.

I think this book is one of the hardest books to put down. It makes you realize how great Jim Morrison's voice is, and how cool of a guy he was. I like the parts of book with his journal entries and when it talks about his relationship with his band mates. If you like books about the 60's, this book is for you.

Title: No One Here Gets Out Alive
Author: Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman

If you like biography, on singers who overcome obstacles and realization about themselves then you will enjoy No One Here Gets out Alive by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman. The book is set in the 60’s in Los Angeles, with Jim Morrison and his curiosity.

The narrator of the story is Jim Morrison a rock star or a legend. Jim Morrison is leading vocalist for the band the doors.

Jim Morrison battled his curiosity. He went pass real life boundaries just to see what will happen. No one could tell him what to do.

This is a great book showing an American rock star at his prime. I recommend this book to a lot of people.

This biography was alright. It was interesting learning about these strange characters, and what they did.

This biography was alright. It was interesting learning about these strange characters, and what they did.

This is the story of Jim Morrison's life and death as the Door front man. It is Rock and Roll at it zenith in the 70's.

One of the best rock'n'roll memoirs ever. You really get into Jim's life and it has stories that will stick with you forever. Truly a good read even if doubt has been cast on the some of the stories veracity.

Rock biographies can be wonderful things - Guralnick's two volume life of the king Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley and Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley; the Gillmans' Alias David Bowie; and anything by Lester Bangs rank amongst the best biographies written about anyone - but despite having an undoubtedly fascinating subject in Jim Morrison and good pedigree in the Rolling Stone credentials of its authors, No One Gets Out Of Here Alive fails to impress on any level.

For me a decent biography has to have a thesis: A (perhaps controversial) view of its subject that the authors, having immersed themselves in research, can present, backed by evidence, to put a new perspective or shed some new light on a familiar subject: to tell a new story for a casual reader. Hopkins and Sugarman make no such effort: Morrison is portrayed as a clever, well-read alcoholic with an authority problem and a pretty apparent (but entirely unexplored) general social unease. The events of his life are thus trotted out is a somewhat patchy fashion, without the attempt to stitch together some overlying narrative or explanation where it feels one is called for: after all this phenomenon still occupies some (diminishing) part of the collective consciousness nearly forty years later. Yet James Morrison comes across as no more worthwhile or interesting a figure than Robbie Williams or Amy Winehouse, and while that may be true, I doubt it, and it doesn't explain the eerie and evocative content of nearly all the Doors' records. I can't imagine a Robbie Williams over the opening credits of Apocalypse Now, nor coming up with an album closer like Maggie McGill or Riders on the Storm.

This book doesn't even pretend to be a story about the rest of the band, and therefore leaves this fascinating artifact we still know as The Doors pretty much uninvestigated, let alone unexplained. Ray Manzarek is, at least, a peripheral figure: poor Robby Krieger and particularly John Densmore are barely mentioned, and the relationships, dynamics and creative processes of the band - which led to some undeniably memorable and haunting music, after all - are wholly unexplored. In any case Jim Morrison, even in his own right, can't be understood properly except through that prism, so this feels to me to be a dramatic failing.

Lastly, Hopkins and Sugarman indulge in absurd speculation about Morrison's demise - or more accurately the lack of evidence for it. Yet all of Morrison's behaviour before his, er "disappearance" - as patiently documented in this volume - points to exactly the sort of early death he apparently suffered, and the idea that such a publicity seeking (and utterly recognisable) drunkard could suddenly, miraculously, vanish without trace from the entire planet's conscience simply beggars belief.

There must be more rewarding accounts of The Doors than this.½

A very sensationalized and unsubstantiated biography of Jim Morrison. Sources quoted in Jim Morrison by Stephen Davis refer to this book as "Nothing here but lots of lies".

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Not having grown up in the heyday of The Doors, I was previously unaware of the mysterious nature of Jim Morrison. A friend of mine, an avid Morrison fan, piqued my interest and when I found "No One Here Gets Out Alive" in a local thrift store for $1, I knew I had to read! And, I'm very glad I did! I was (and remain) fascinated by Morrison and the other Doors. In fact, I am highly impressed with their music and their lives. It has made me an absolute DOORS fan!

the roller coaster life that was Jim Morrison. he remains the lizard king

An important book for me. When I was in the Coast Guard in the early 80's I was more into punk rock. Stationed in the Cape Cod area one day I was driving around in a thunderstorm and something I almost never did-- I turned off the cassette player and tuned in a radio station and on comes Riders on the Storm. Not that I hadn't heard it before but I remember being in awe this day. The lyrics---into this house we're born, into this world we're thrown--amazing. Anyway a couple years later when I was discharged I came home with the idea that I'd run for a while on my discharge money (including two months of leave) and the unemployment I was eligible for. It wasn't a bad plan but I got bored and this is when I first really began to read and this particular biography describes how Jim even as a very young teenager was just devouring the classics and the beats and the existentialists and those destined to flame out like he himself eventually did. It provided me with my first real reading list and when I hit Celine I've been hooked ever since.