Jim Morrison and Pamela Courson were together from 1966 until Morrison's death in 1971. They were utterly obsessed with one another. Kindred spirits, stormy lovers and, as Morrison himself put it, "cosmic mates". Ray Manzarek of the Doors put it more simply . . . "They were two halves of the same person".
The relationship with Pamela was to be one of the few constants in the final years of the punk angel who changed the history of rock. Pamela Courson Morrison was herself to die in 1974 of a heroin overdose. In her remaining years she tried to come to terms with life without Jim, battling to claim his estate and to exorcise her own demons. This electrifying story of a modern "Romeo and Juliet" tragedy supplies the missing pages of the Morrison story.
This new account turns tender, funny and tragic. This portrait of the ill-starred romance begins by tracing the eerily parallel lives of Courson and Morrison prior to their meeting in 1966. It concludes with a startling new take both on Morrison's life and his much mythologised death in Paris. In between is a wealth of new information based on interviews with friends, family and business associates of the couple. Illustrated with a unique collection of over forty photographs, five in full colour.
