Books by John Densmore and Complete Book Reviews
John Densmore, Author Delacorte Press $19.95 (319p) ISBN 978-0-385-30033-9
Indispensable for fans of one of rock music's most flamboyant and controversial groups is Doors drummer Densmore's insider's look at hard-living singer Morrison, who died of a drug overdose in 1971. Like the trashier (and bestselling) biography No...
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John Densmore, Author Delta $17 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-30447-4
Doors drummer Densmore, who had a love-hate relationship with lead singer Morrison, sympathetically chronicles the self-destructive Lizard King's rise and fall. ``Densmore's detailed account . . . is often narrated in a glib style'' but remains ``ind
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John Densmore. Hachette, $28 (240p) ISBN 978-0-30684-623-6
Densmore (Riders on the Storm), drummer for the Doors, meditates on creative personalities in this scattershot memoir. He revisits encounters with musicians including his high school band teacher and country legend Willie Nelson, as well as...
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John Densmore. Akashic, $17.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-63614-157-2
The Doors drummer Densmore (Riders on the Storm) rockets through his tumultuous six-year lawsuit against former bandmates Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger in this no-holds-barred account. Much has changed since the garage band from Venice, Calif.,...
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