The Village Bookshop » Products http://thevillagebookshop.ie Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:18:12 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.15 Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour & Excess http://thevillagebookshop.ie/index.php/product/wonderland-avenue-tales-of-glamour-excess/ http://thevillagebookshop.ie/index.php/product/wonderland-avenue-tales-of-glamour-excess/#comments Sun, 23 Jun 2013 12:20:34 +0000 http://thevillagebookshop.ie/?post_type=product&p=316 ]]> 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 protégé 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.

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