The Doors Companion :Four Decades of Commentary

by John Rocco

The Doors and their doomed late leader Jim Morrison have been rock legends for decades, and this collection of critical essays and press clippings does much to strip away the current mythology surrounding the band while presenting them as they really were. An amazingly diverse collection of writers, from Joan Didion (in an excerpt from The White Album) to Lester Bangs (who cut through the myth of Morrison, whom he referred to as "Bozo Dionysus"), weigh in with their impressions of The Doors and the band's ever-controversial legacy. Of particular interest are pieces with no critical aspect, news reports of the notorious Doors concerts that climaxed in police raids.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Rocco studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design and School of Visual Arts in New York City. He is the author of four acclaimed books for children: Wolf! Wolf!, winner of the Borders Original Voices Award for best picture book; Moonpowder, part of the Original Art Show at the Society of Illustrators; Fu Finds the Way, and Blackout, a New York Times Best Book of the Year and winner of a 2012 Caldecott Honor. Rocco also illustrated Whoopi Goldberg‘s Alice and the covers for Rick Riordan‘s multi-million copy internationally bestselling series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Kane Chronicles, and The Heroes of Olympus. Most recently, Rocco illustrated the fantasy fairy tale, The Flint Heart, written by Katherine Paterson and her husband, John.
me with samFor many years Rocco has been an art director in the entertainment industry, both in the US and abroad. At Dreamworks, Rocco was the pre-production art director on the top-grossing animated film Shrek. For Walt Disney Imagineering, he designed attractions at Disney’s Epcot and served as art director for DisneyQuest, a virtual reality theme park in Downtown Disney. Rocco has worked with computer graphics pioneer Robert Abel, the creator of some of the first CGI commercials and special effects, and contributed to several museum projects including Newseum in Washington D.C. and Paul Allen‘s Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame.
Rocco lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Aileen and their daughter, Alaya.