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Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors

by John Densmore · 1990

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Here is the book that Rolling Stone called "the first Doors biography that feels like it was written for the right reasons, and it is easily the most informed account of the Doors' brief but brilliant life as a group".

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