A fan from the moment the Doors' first album arrived, Greil Marcus saw the band many times at the legendary Filmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom in 1967. Five years later it was all over. There have been many books on the Doors. This is the first to bypass their myth, their mystique and the death cult both of Jim Morrison and the era he was made to personify and focus solelyon the music. It is a story untold; all these years later it is a new story. Comes with a dust jacket containing quotes by Salman Rushdie