Danny Sugerman

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Daniel "Danny" Sugerman (born October 11, 1954 in Los Angeles ; † January 5, 2005 ibid) was the manager of Ray Manzarek when he and the other members dissolved the band The Doors two years after the death of Jim Morrisons and started his solo career began, as well as by Jim Osterberg alias Iggy Pop .

Life

Danny Sugerman met the rock band The Doors through a friend as a teenager , befriended them and was responsible for fan mail in their office. According to Ray Manzarek, the young Danny inspired Jim Morrison to write the song Wild Child . After Jim Morrison's death, Sugerman was Ray Manzarek's manager.

Sugerman co-wrote the Morrison biography No one here gets out alive with Jerry Hopkins . He also wrote The Doors: The Illustrated History , Wonderland Avenue , which deals with his childhood and youth in Los Angeles, and Appetite for Destruction: The Days of Guns N 'Roses .

Sugerman died of lung cancer at the age of 50 . He left behind his wife Fawn Hall.

Works

  • Jerry Hopkins, Danny Sugerman: Nobody gets out of here alive. ISBN 3453197844
  • Danny Sugerman: Wonderland Avenue. ISBN 3875120965 , autobiography
  • Danny Sugerman: Jim Morrison and the Doors. ISBN 3888144329
  • Danny Sugerman: Appetite for Destruction: The Days of Guns N 'Roses.

Individual evidence

  1. He is mentioned under the pen name Denny Sullivan in No One Get Out Of Here Alive (Chapter 6) .
  2. Ray Manzarek: My Life with the Doors , 1999, p. 280.

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