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The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years Hardcover - 2011

by Greil Marcus


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A fan from the moment the Doors' first album took over KMPX, the revolutionary FM rock & roll station in San Francisco, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. Five years later it was all over. Forty years after the singer Jim Morrison was found dead in Paris and the group disbanded, one could drive from here to there, changing from one FM pop station to another, and be all but guaranteed to hear two, three, four Doors songs in an hour--every hour. Whatever the demands in the music, they remained unsatisfied, in the largest sense unfinished, and absolutely alive. There have been many books on the Doors. This is the first to bypass their myth, their mystique, and the death cult of both Jim Morrison and the era he was made to personify, and focus solely on the music. It is a story untold; all these years later, it is a new story.

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  • Title The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years
  • Author Greil Marcus
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition fi
  • Pages 210
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher PublicAffairs, New York
  • Date 2011-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781586489458 / 1586489453
  • Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.81 x 0.9 in (21.59 x 14.76 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Doors (Musical group), Rock music - 1961-1970 - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011027931
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Greil Marcus is the author of Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus, When that Rough God Goes Riding, The Shape of Things to Come, Mystery Train, Dead Elvis, In the Fascist Bathroom, Double Trouble, Like a Rolling Stone, and The Old Weird America; a twentieth anniversary edition of his book Lipstick Traces was published in 2009. With Werner Sollors he is the editor of A New Literary History of America, published last year by Harvard University Press. Since 2000 he has taught at Princeton, Berkeley, Minnesota, and the New School in New York; his column "Real Life Rock Top 10" appears regularly in The Believer. He has lectured at U Cal, Berkeley, The Whitney Museum of Art, and Princeton University. He lives in Berkeley.
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