In Paris's P&232;re-Lachaise cemetery Jim Morrison's graffiti-scrawled tombstone is a place of pilgrimage for local devotees adolescent hedonists & wayward backpackers alike Found dead in his bathtub aged only 27 having achieved worldwide stardom as lead singer of The Doors Morrison was quickly immortalised amongst the rock & roll deity such as Hendrix & Joplin In death however this debauched 'rock poet' remained more stubbornly enigmatic than ever Who was the real Jim Morrison? Nihilist egoist shaman he was a master of self-creation A mosaic mythology of new-age hippy rhetoric French poetry & Nietszchean symbolism obscured a man trapped by the mythology that he had so carefully constructed around himself In this colourful & intimate biography Dylan Jones strips bare the skin-tight leather suit of Jim Morrison's Lizard King persona & offers a frank & honest appraisal of a much beloved & often-romanticised counter-cultural icon Mr Mojo is littered with little-known anecdotes from fellow stars spurned lovers & industry moguls It is a refreshingly honest portrait of a self-indulgent artist with a penchant for pageantry & public self-destruction