BIRTH DATE & PLACE: December 8, 1943, Melbourne, Florida. Jim glanced at the list and picked up his pen to address the first question. The questions were the most basic form of pap, designed to tease little girls into falling in love and spending their allowances-not necessarily in that order.
Jim looked at the questionnaire Elektra Records executive Billy James had given him to fill out for his first official bio as one of the label’s new artists of 1967. (Jan.A child, a child, hiding in a corner, peeking, infolded in veils, in swirling shrouds and mysteries. Butler, who spent six years writing this entertaining tale, will leave at least some readers wondering what it was about the self-proclaimed Lizard King and his muse that merits all the attention. More problematic is the lack of a clear sense of what made these people so important culturally. Butler writes with flair and sensitivity about her subjects, though she undermines herself when she purports to read the singer's mind (""God, she was beautiful! Why did he keep doing these things to her? Why did they keep doing these things to each other?""). Some of Butler's material is new, however, including theories that Morrison was sexually abused as a child and a report that he had a homosexual dalliance with a nightclub owner. We read of Pamela's beauty and of the self-destructive impulses that each brought out in the other. We are told of Morrison's intelligence, his iconoclasm and his spectacularly early descent into alcoholism.
Much of what Butler, a Chicago literary agent, describes has been noted in previous books, such as the 1980 bestseller No One Gets Out of Here Alive, by Danny Sugerman and Jerry Hopkins (who introduces this volume). The legendary Doors vocalist lives on in this absorbing dual biography of Morrison and his common-law wife, Pamela, which puts the glamorously doomed couple's relationship in the foreground.
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