The Doors: The Complete Illustrated Lyrics

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The Doors: The Complete Illustrated Lyrics by Danny Sugerman

An absolute tsunami of books were released in 1991 to tie in/cash in with Stone's excellent but insane Jim Morrison bio-pic.
The worst of these was Dark Star by Dylan Jones whilst this was among the best that year would bring.
A labour of love for Danny Sugerman as he compiles all Doors lyrics that feature Jim released on LP/CD.
Broken up with a nice selection of photos and some interesting articles on The Doors.

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Pocket review from my Doors4Scorpywag fanzine.
Danny doing here what he does best documenting bits of Doors history, in this case all the lyrics, in a nice easy on the eye package.
Containing lyrics to all the studio albums except Other Voices/Full Circle (which unfortunate omission contradicts the title) as well the new songs/alternate lyrics that crop up on the live albums.
Danny even transcribes the dirty version of ‘Gloria’ that we would not hear for some time and also prints the unabridged versions of the ‘Absolutely Live’ songs which is cool.

A couple of decent articles add a bit of interest as do the excellent selection of photos some of which were unseen at the time and we basically have the best book of it’s type on the market.
Scorpywag rating. 9/10 almost flawless



There were several covers for this book and I got the paperback with this one when it came out in 1991.