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.