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Cargando... The Last Stagepor Jim Cherry
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Michael Night is an aging professional student looking for a way out of a small town, and away from a loving girlfriend who increasingly wants more from him. And he's also a Doors fan with ambition. But he doesn't know how to act upon it, or even admit them to himself, until, inspired by friends who tell him he looks like Jim Morrison, and a chance meeting with Ray Manzarek he takes a chance on his dream and starts a Doors cover band. He sidetracks a band on their road to fame, and together they experience the exhilaration of being a Rock n' Roll band on tour, from the long hours, the agents, the travel, the groupies, record company executives and the growing ego of Michael Night, until they're offered the gig of their Rock n' Roll dreams. On the road Michael meets and falls in love with Caitlin Stewart, daughter of legendary guitarist Jerry Osprey, but she doesn't trust his motives, does he truly love her, or is she a career move for Michael? Or even a collectible? They're carried to the doors of stardom when the band plays in Los Angeles where Michael meets former child star Jimmy Stark who shows him the monster fame, celebrity and stardom can be, crashing studios and parties Michael assembles an entourage of has been's and wanna be's . Then Michael Night and the band meet their destines on the stage of the Whisky a-go-go! And when it's all over Michael Night is afforded the last stage he has. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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By just glancing at this book and its blurb, one could mistake it as a tale written by a Doors fan for a Doors fan- and although that's a part of it- in the whole it's no such thing. This is a story about idolisation and of wanting to become that idol, to the degree that one loses themselves in the process. So what better icon to use as the basis for this story than Jim Morrison? The true idol of generations who exceeded being pigeon holed into simply a music icon. Jim's magic. A myth. A legend. A god. That's who Michael Gray wants to be.
The Last Stage is a very well written, excellently thought out and extremely well structured book; set at the opportune time of the start of the nineties, when The Doors were more cult famous than long term super famous, and before cover bands were ten a penny, the narrative is interspersed with gig reviews and sub-stories, which all together create a multi-faceted tale.
I had a smile on my face through much of the book, and sometimes laughed out loud. Anyone who has ever been into rock 'n' roll will surely recognise a part of themselves in Gray and the other come-to-life characters. Each of us has surely had a music icon that we worshipped in our formative years- and often, as much as we're still inspired by those stars, by the time we're into our thirties and beyond, we realise a lot of the fan worship is also a crock, and we can start to poke fun at our idols, whilst still being inspired by them. A fitting theme for a book in our modern culture of everyone wanting to be famous- rather than being successful at something they've created themselves for the sake of creating.
Anyone who's ever been in love with Jimi or Joplin or Vicious or Marley or Kurt or Winehouse... will love this book. Seeing as Morrison was my own personal 'saviour' in my youth, I certainly bought into this book, but I don't think that makes me prejudiced. In fact, rather than having Doors songs running through my head whilst reading it, my mind was instead plagued by Radiohead, with Thom Yorke singing: “I wish it was the sixties, I wish I could be happy... I wanna be Jim Morrison!” (