Jim Morrison - singer, philosopher, poet, troublemaker - is presented in all his complexity in this book, as an obsessive follower of darkness who rejected authority and tested "the limits of reality to see what would happen." Jim Morrison was the lead singer of the Doors, one of the most popular and controversial rock bands of the late sixties. He was idolized by fans, hated by the authorities, and persecuted by journalists. Morrison personified the unpredictable and forbidden lifestyle that young people dreamed of. None of Us Gets Out of Here Alive separates fact from speculation about Jim's life and mysterious death in Paris in 1971, meticulously detailing a legendary figure who was simultaneously lauded as a poet of the counterculture. and was reviled as a corrupter of youth.