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Angels Dance And Angels Die: The Tragic Romance of Pamela and Jim Morrison |
Author: Patricia Butler
Published: 2007-12-01 |
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 Tragic Romance?
Two immature, irresponsible people prop one another up & support each other in their bad choices. Yes, it's tragic, but it's not very romantic. The biggest tragedy is that Pamela remains something of a cypher, known only through her relationship with Jim Morrison & seeming to live only by reacting to his behaviour. The impressive thing about this book is the trouble the author has taken to verify what she writes - very little is claimed without the context being noted, a refreshing change in the area of Morrison biography. Probably we'll never know the real Pamela, but I'm sure the author's thoroughness & scrupulous research means that this is as close as we'll get. You can't help wishing Pam & Jim had never met, but it's great to read a book where her character isn't comprehensively smeared. After all, if she was the amoral, vicious woman portrayed in some books, what did the annoying but wonderfully clever & talented Morrison see in her?
 Unconventional yet beautiful love story
Jim adored Pamela. She was his muse, lover, confidante, 'cosmic mate' and the only person that seemed to stand up to Jim.
Although he was with her right up until his tragic (yet not entirely surprising)death nothing substantial has been written about her - until now.
Patricia Butler has done a beautiful job at finally telling the story of the woman behind the legend, Jim Morrison. The book is incredibly well researched and interviews included in this book are people that were close to both Jim & Pam.
This is by no means your typical warm and fuzzy love story. Their love for each other was as sweet & loving as it was volatile & turbulent.
The book gives accounts of their many plate hurling fights, and infidelities on both sides.
There was no denying Jim was a sexual predator. He had many lovers he would string along, some foolishly believing Jim would eventually leave Pam for them. This of course never happened which resulted in Pam incurring the scorn & hatred of his conquest, none more so than that of Patricia Keneally who to this day remains full of scorn & hatred for Pam. Her accusations that Pam murdered Jim are as ludicrous as her claims Jim was about to leave Pam for her. Im sure Jim would be rolling his eyes at her claims from beyond the grave..
Pamelas reactions to Jims many infidelities were quite intriguing. It seems she felt more threatened by Jims platonic relationships with women than his many lovers. Her infidelities seemed nothing more than 'tit for tat' revenge for Jims many indiscretions which is quite sad really..
It also provided some interesting info on her life after Jim. I was interested to read she was not the 'heroin junkie' many portrayed her as at the time of her death.
All in all a great book. To be fair there is not really any new info on Jim so if thats what you are looking for you may be disappointed. It is definitely a story that needed to be told & Patricia Butler has done a fantastic, well researched, unbiased job of it.
Starcrossed Lovers - Love and Tragedy
Jim Morrison was a Sagittarus and Pam Courson was a Capricorn. Soulmate love can happen between these two signs. And it did with Pam and Jim. This book examines their lives from childhood until their deaths very thoroughly. I have read of the excesses of Jim, but until this book there has not been anything written about the side of Jim when he was with Pam. It seems she was his true love and he hers. The saddest of all is that these two beautiful people died so young. I highly recommend this book if you want to know their love story as I did.
The Love of Jim Morrison's Life -Pamela Courson
Patricia Butler takes an intriguing twist on the much wrote about rock legend Jim Morrison exploring his true love Pamela Courson. So many books, movies, and documentaries have really not touched on his actual long term relationship with Courson. Other biographers have explored his many flings, groupies, and sexual notoriety. Yes, he had an open relationship but his one constant companion and soul mate was Courson. This book is a definate buy for any Jim Morrison fan to explore his personal side in a deeper more compelling manner.
The most revealing glimpse yet
After "No One Here Gets Out Alive" laid bare the hedonistic and troubled history of Jim Morrison and the Doors, it seemed all available information had been served up for the public appetite and there was nothing left to say. Numerous volumes on the topic followed but most only echoed what had already been said. For nearly three decades, "No One Here" has remained the ultimate guide to the enigmatic singer and his long-suffering band.
It feels vaguely traitorous to say so but I'm going to do it anyway: "Angels Dance and Angels Die" may be the most gripping and insightful book yet on the subject of Morrison and his screaming shaman's dance through rock and roll history. Where the earlier work provided a chronicle of the band's rise to the top and more than a few glimpses behind the stage curtains, "Angels Dance" achieves something more significant. It studies the motivations, flaws and personal history that made Jim Morrison the kind of man and artist whose popularity continues to mushroom nearly four decades after his death.
Much of Patricia Butler's beautifully written book focuses on the stormy relationship between Jim and his cosmic mate Pamela Courson. But it is more than a blow-by-blow photo album of dish hurling fights and lurid infidelities. Butler writes with unflagging objectivity and offers up her views only when those views are supported by sources who knew Jim or Pam or both as intimately as anyone alive. The result is a book that's both illuminating and powerful, a rock and roll love story like none ever told.
My wife is a mild Doors fan who mostly tolerates my own tenacious adoration of the group. She has no interest in "No One Here Gets Out Alive" or any of the numerous rockographies that followed it. "Angels Dance" appeals to her though, because it is a story of genuine love that exists in spite of the many pitfalls of the rock and roll universe, which is not a place that has proven friendly to enduring romance. With that kind of broader audience, Butler's book may prove to be durable as well, and deservedly so. She reports and writes with the flair of a seasoned journalist yet there is no shortage of drama and poetry here. "Angels Dance and Angels Die" should be regarded as essential reading for anyone who remains fascinated by the Morrison legend. From the first page to the last, this one is as intriguing, mysterious and brilliant as the notes from Ray Manzarek's keyboard.
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