THINK YOU KNOW HOW THE STARS REALLY LIVED AND DIED?

THINK AGAIN.

“The tragic destinies of the folks you write about are some
of the 20th century’s great stories — bar none.”



STEPHEN DAVIS, author of Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40-Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones.  Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga.   Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend, Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns’n’Roses.

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"Comfort's book sounds drop-dead terrific. I'm planning on checking-in to the Tropicana Motel with it, a basket of health food, and the phone number of a private nursing service."


TOM ROBBINS, author of Another Roadside Attraction. Only Cowgirls Get the Blues. Jitterbug Perfume.

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"From the limo ride to fame, to the burning hearse bound for immortality, Comfort brilliantly exposes the solemn cost the greatest rockers paid to become legends."



MICHAEL LARGO, author of Genius and Heroin. Final Exits.

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“At its best, The Rock & Roll Book of the Dead … gives you fresh insight into the lives and deaths of some of the greatest rock musicians of the 20th century, including, of course, Jim Morrison, and allows you to hear their music with new ears.”

ROBERT ROSEN, author of Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon. Beaver Street.

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“All seven of these artists share the same emotional problems, bad upbringings, drugs, poor relationships, abuse from managers and friends, that it's mind boggling to read each story, much less seven. David Comfort has supplied an enormous amount of information and delivers it in a thorough and fast-paced manner. You won't be able to put this book down.”

MARTIN R. HOGAN, Top 100 Amazon Reviewer

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“Comfort aims to chart a steady course between hagiography and exposé. He aims for an explanation of how each one went down the drain, and why they chose this direction… Often wryly phrased (even if I cannot quote some gems here) with apposite citations and damning quotes about and from such as the obsessive couple in their "mind games," this remains an efficiently told, steadily paced study of the destructive factors that eroded the pedestals mounted by "The Seven."

DR. JOHN L. MURPHY