What's it like to be married to the superstar lead singer of the Doors? Patricia Kennealy Morrison gives a loving and detailed account of the pagan handfasting ceremony that bound her forever with the legendary rock superstar Jim Morrison. The intimate portrait of Jim that emerges—a tender and vulnerable face that was shown to very few—makes this book essential reading. The reader has the good fortune of meeting Patricia in the process and empathizing with this smart, deeply spiritual professional woman who has fallen hopelessly in love with a young man whose genius has made him famous and whose demons have made him notorious.
From the author of The Copper Crown, The Throne of Scone, and Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead... Three Days of Peace, Music...and Murder. When Rennie Stride and her friends go off to this summer rock festival in rural upstate New York-a little weekend diversion called Woodstock-the last thing any of them expects to come across is a dead body. Or two. Though at this point, of course, it should be the first thing they expect: renowned journalist Rennie-also known as Murder Chick-seems to have a backstage pass to music-biz murder. And she isn't afraid to use it. But when she encounters rock death on Max Yasgur's dairy farm, in the middle of half a million people and the greatest rock musicians of the age, and when people she loves get caught up in it, including her own betrothed, superstar guitarist Turk Wayland, she finds herself right back on the front lines once again. Or still... Patricia Kennealy Morrison is a retired rock critic-one of the first female rock critics ever, a Founding Mother of the genre-and the former editor of Jazz & Pop magazine. An award-winning, two-time Clio-nominated ad copywriter, she is the author of The Keltiad science-fantasy series and the memoir "Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison", whom she married in 1970.She attended St. Bonaventure University as a journalism major and graduated from Harpur College (now Binghamton University) with a B.A. in English literature. She has also studied at NYU, Parsons School of Design and Christ Church, University of Oxford. She lives in New York City. This is her fourteenth book and the fifth in the series The Rock & Roll Murders: The Rennie Stride Mysteries.
This book is a compilation, with new commentary, of the articles, interviews, columns, features and reviews [the author] wrote for 'Jazz & pop' magazine, as editorial assistant and Editor in Chief, during the period 1968-1971."--T.p. verso.
What's it like to be married to the superstar lead singer of the Doors? Patricia Kennealy Morrison gives a loving and detailed account of the pagan handfasting ceremony that bound her forever with the legendary rock superstar Jim Morrison. The intimate portrait of Jim that emerges—a tender and vulnerable face that was shown to very few—makes this book essential reading. The reader has the good fortune of meeting Patricia in the process and empathizing with this smart, deeply spiritual professional woman who has fallen hopelessly in love with a young man whose genius has made him famous and whose demons have made him notorious.
The planet Keltia is the setting for this spectacular twist on the Arthurian legend of Camelot. Seen through the eyes of the Knight Taliesin, Chief Bard of Keltia, this is the story of Arthur the King and his battles against the Archdruid, master of Evil.
Turn on, tune in drop dead - June, 1967. In San Francisco, the summer of love is in full swing. In fact, it's about to hit its highest moment - or its lowest. Reporter Rennie Stride is covering the Monterey Pop Festival, where her two best friends will be appearing along with rock titans: Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, the Byrds, the Mamas & the Papas. And sharing the spotlight with blazing new comets: Janis Joplin, Jim Hendrix, Otis Redding, the Who - But not far from Monterey, an anti-festival is also happening - Big Magic. As both events unfold, Rennie encounters old friends and new enemies. And when people start turning up dead in the psychedelic crossfire, she goes looking for justice - or vengeance - for them all.
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