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In the twenty years since his death in a Paris bathtub, Jim Morrison has remained the subject of intense scrutiny and unending public fascination. Indeed, no two portraits have painted the same man: gifted poet and an abusive alcoholic, a hippie shaman and a doped-up rebel, the Lizard King and the Pig Man of L.A. But not until now has there been a book that reveals a shy, intelligent, complex, loving man. Strange Days is an intimate and honest tale of love and tragedy, written by the woman who was Jim Morrison's critic and confidante, his lover--and his mate--the only woman with whom he ever went through any form of wedding ceremony.

Patricia Kennealy was already an influential rock critic when the Doors were at their hotteston the heady '60s music scene. In the male-dominated world of rock 'n 'roll, she more than held her own, carving out a place and style uniquely hers, meeting and mingling with such luminaries as Jefferson Airplane and Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead, making the scene at Woodstock, Newport and the Fillmore East. But it was a private interview with Morrison at the Plaza Hotel in 1969 that sparked a romance as strange and wild and wonderful as anything out of legend: and for the next two-and-a-half years, right up to his death at the obscenely early age of twenty-seven, Morrison showed Kennealy a side of himself that few others ever saw, and that perhaps no one but she ever really understood.

Set against an incredible 1960s tapestry of rebellion, rock and drugs, this blazingly personal memoir is the never-before-told account of Jim and Patricia's days together, from New York to Miami to Los Angeles to Paris; their friendship as equals; their love and times of passion--culminating in their pagan Celtic wedding rite; his Miami obscenity trial, her pregnancy and the terrible consequences of both; the dreadful and harrowing truth of Jim's death.