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Wonderland Avenue
Wonderland Avenue
Author: Danny Sugerman
Excessive, scandalous, comic, cautionary and horrifying, it chronicles the 60s dream gone-to-rot and the early life of a Hollywood Wild Child who was just brilliant at being bad. — Publishers Weekly — ``This achingly forthright account of heroin addiction and the madness of the L.A. rock-and-roll scene fairly crackles with reality,'' maint...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780452263802
ISBN-10: 0452263808
Publication Date: 2/1/1990
Pages: 40
Edition: Reissue
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Publisher: Plume
Book Type: Paperback
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Sex and drugs and rock & roll. For Danny Sugarman, it was the teenage dream come true. Besides fast cars, pretty women, and record industry success, he had developed a close friendship with Jim Morrison -- lyricist, philosopher, and lead singer of the phenomenally influential 60s rock band The Doors -- all before the tender age of twenty. But Morrison, a rebel poet and adherent to the credo that living life to the fullest meant constantly tempting death, set Sugarman on a course toward self-destruction. Suddenly, the dream had become a $400-a-day heroin nightmare. Miraculously, he survived. In chilling detail and with absolute honesty, Danny Sugarman re-creates the fascinating tale of life in rock & roll's fastest lane; of its twisting, winding, exhilirating path; and of an unplanned turn-off onto that road to ruin... Wonderland Avenue.


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