Summary Of Break On Through By Jim Morrison

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Break on Through is a biography based on the life and death of Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, a prolific figure in late 1960’s rock n’ roll. The book goes into immense detail about the events leading up to the formation of The Doors, including Morrison’s educational decisions and overwhelming drug use, along with the popularity of he attained during that time as a sex symbol, and his eventual death. Authors James Riordan and Jerry Prochnicky both have done extensive research on Jim Morrison dating back 20 years from when the book was originally released in 1991. It’s no surprise that they both started their research on Jim Morrison in 1971; that’s the year that he passed away. As such a mysterious and intriguing human being, it is no wonder that it took them 20 years to compile all the information necessary to produce the most extensive and objective biography that has ever been written about Morrison. A rock n’ roll sex symbol, a shooting star that was gone in an instant, he was what every man wanted to be and …show more content…
Woman, which would be released in April of 1971, signaling the true return of The Doors, as Rolling Stone called it their “greatest album.” However, the return of The Doors was short lived because Morrison had exiled himself in Paris after the recording of the album had been completed, where he died of heart failure on July 3, 1971 at the age of 27. To say the life of Jim Morrison is an interesting subject wouldn’t come close to describing it. He was a visionary who saw himself as a shaman, a shooting star, and a poet amongst other things. Any fan of The Doors can tell you a plethora of information regarding Jim Morrison and each bit of information more intriguing than the last. That is the mystique and appeal that Morrison created when he set out to California and started to get in touch with the shaman we always believed to be with

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