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Becoming Elektra tells the incredible true story of the pioneering
Elektra Records label and its far-sighted founder, Jac Holzman, who
built a small folk imprint into a home for some of the most
groundbreaking, important, and enduring music of the rock era.
Placing the Elektra label in a broader context, the book presents a
gripping narrative of musical and cultural history that reads like
an inventory of all that is exciting and innovative about the 60s
and 70s: The Doors, Love s Forever Changes, Tim Buckley s Goodbye
and Hello, The Stooges, The MC5 s Kick Out The Jams, Queen and
Queen II, The Incredible String Band, Carly Simon s No Secrets, and
many, many more. First published in 2010, Becoming Elektra was
praised as 'eye-opening (Q) and a 'dazzling narrative (The Sun),
and for 'perfectly encapsulating the enigmatic, unpredictable
spirit of the label (Record Collector). This fully revised and
expanded edition includes a brand new foreword by John Densmore of
The Doors and draws on extensive new interviews with a wide range
of Elektra alumni, including Tom Paley, Judy Henske, Johnny Echols,
Jean Ritchie, and Bernie Krause, as well as further conversations
with Holzman himself. It also adds two new chapters: a look at
Elektra in Britain in the 60s and a reappraisal of the label s 70s
output.
Legendary drummer and founding member of The Doors John Densmore unpacks the intersection of art and commerce in this deeply principled middle finger to greed . . .
In The Doors Unhinged, New York Times bestselling author and legendary Doors drummer John Densmore offers a powerful exploration of the 'greed gene' - that part of the human psyche that propels us toward the accumulation of more and more wealth, even at the expense of our principles, friendships and the well-being of society. This is the gripping account of the legal battle to control The Doors's artistic destiny. In it, Densmore looks at the conflict between his bandmates and him as they fought over the right to use The Doors's name, revealing the ways in which this struggle mirrored and reflected a much larger societal issue: that no amount of money seems to be enough for even the wealthiest people.
The Doors continue to attract new generations of fans, with more than one hundred million albums sold worldwide and counting, and nearly twenty million followers on the band's social media accounts. As such, Densmore occupies a rarefied space in popular culture. He is beloved by artists across the decades for his fierce, uncompromising dedication to art. His writing consistently earns accolades and has appeared in a range of publications such as the Los Angeles Times and Rolling Stone. As his friend and American novelist Tom Robbins recently advised him, 'If you keep writing like this, I'll have to get a drum set.'
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