I Remember Jim Morrison Author:Alan R. Graham The Jim Morrison you know, unlike most public figures, is largely based on accounts of the last five years of his life. More than forty books have been published about him, and each one reveals nothing more than the last. The reason for this is because no one in the Morrison clan has ever revealed the true details (nor will they ever) about Jim'... more »s life inside the family.
My personal account of these events provides rare glimpses and intimate insights into the other side of Jim Morrison and the people who loved him.
--A. R. Graham
. . . Unlike the majority of "Morrison books", I Remember is more than an attempt to reconstruct or romanticize Jims life, more than a nostalgic backward glance at a reality which never existed. Alan Graham seeks to draw back the curtain of media-driven illusion and reveal the truth as he knows it and lived it within the Morrison clan. It is a story that speaks to the reality of Jims life and personality as well as Alans own.
Somewhere between the statement comparing himself with an unforgettable "shooting star", briefly dazzling the world, and the comment in which Jim Morrison hoped to live a hundred and twenty years and die in a comfortable bed lay the reality of a real, living man. He saw, as many will not see, life in its immensity and ultimate mystery, and likely realized that ones total knowledge must finally be balanced against that which one cannot know. Like Chekhov's protagonist in "The Bet", Jim absorbed much, found it wanting, and in the end wandered away, abandoning the rewards he no longer valued, though possibly looking for something greater, something beyond his ken. Such insights are rare indeed in pop star bios, yet such as these and many more may be gleaned from the kaleidoscopic, time-traveling ricochet journey that is I Remember.