Product Description

At the age of thirteen, Danny Sugerman- the already wayward product of Beverley Hills wealth and privilege- went to his first Doors concert. He never looked back. He became Jim Morrison's protege and- still in his teens- manager of the Doors and then Iggy Pop. He also plunged gleefully into the glamorous underworld of the rock 'n' roll scene, diving headfirst into booze, sex and drugs: every conceivable kind of drug, ever day, in every possible permutation. By the age of twenty-one he had an idyllic home, a beautiful girlfriend, the best car in the world, two kinds of hepatitis, a diseased heart, a $500 a day heroin habit and only a week to live. He lived. This is his tale. 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16598 in Books
• Published on: 1993-08-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 462 pages

About the Author
Danny Sugerman managed The Doors and Iggy Pop. He died in 2005.

Customer Reviews

An insanely hilarious rollercoaster ride
On the very first page of this book Danny Sugerman is told by his doctor that he's dying. The reader is hooked from page one because Mr Sugerman clearly survived long enough to write his autobiography. I have never come across a funnier, crazier autobiography than this. Danny's dysfunctional home life morphs into a drug and alcohol fuelled rock 'n' roll party after he is befriended by the still unknown Doors. They like him, and almost on a whim, make him their manager. The rest you have to read for yourselves because it is simply inconceivable that there are people out there who have driven their car into a stranger's swimming pool after a night out with Iggy Pop. Completely and utterly bonkers, and I loved every page.

Glamour & Excess: The road to hell
Danny Sugerman's book is simply fantastic . He portrays so well the "glamour" of sex drugs and rock 'n' roll that you almost wish you were him.

That is up until it all starts going wrong and your friends start dying and you are told you've only a week to live if you carry on your 'glamorous" lifestyle.
A book that you will smile about when you think about it and one that will never stop shocking you however many time you read it.

Shine on you crazy diamond

' There will never be another one like you
there will never be another one who can do the things you do' well that's how i feel about Danny Sugerman's books. Probably the greatest storyteller of the rock and roll lifestyle he lived and breathed. Picking up this book and starting the first page is very much like getting into a car with the king of acid rock - Jim Morrison - out of your fragile eggshell mind on some heavy duty blotters. You ram home the key and rev the beast to the very brink, the excitment builds, your temeperature fluctuates, nothings is as it was and your heart just races on and on - don't forget to breathe!

Everyone I have encouraged to read this book has come back to me and thanked me for the recommendation and now I have to break the terrible news that this hugely entertaining and enthusiastic writer is no longer with us. May he find the peace he so richly deserves and be reunited in the ether with those he loved that have gone before him.

A must read for all those capable of appreciation.