No One Here Gets Out Alive [1980] - Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugarman

"Jim wrote ['Horse Latitudes'] after seeing a lurid paperback cover showing horses being jettisoned from a Spanish galleon that was becalmed in the Sargasso Sea."

"In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night...starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song. Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music." —Jim Morrison

A tattered copy of No One Here Gets Out Alive, which I bought more than 20 years ago, remains prominently on my bookshelf today. Even though dozens of books on Morrison and The Doors have been written since, it remains the definitive biography on The Doors. No One Here Gets Out Alive is a must-read for any Doors fan who wants to "break on through to the other side . . ."