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07/01/2005
Danny Sugerman, Doors biographer dies
Danny Sugerman, the author who befriended The Doors at age 14 and went on to manage the legendary band has died.
Sugerman, after seeing the Doors in concert in his early teens, went on to answer the band's fan mail and then became a management associate at the suggestion of singer Jim Morrison.
When Morrison died in 1971, Sugerman managed the affairs of drummer John Densmore, keyboard player Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger.
He also served as technical advisor on Oliver Stone's 1991 film 'The Doors'.
Among Sugerman's books are The Doors memoirs 'The Doors' and 'No One Here Gets Out Alive' and 'Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess'.
Drummer Densmore, who visited Sugerman shortly before his death, said that he had been ill for some time, "Cigarettes took him out," he said.
Sugerman, who was 50, had been battling lung cancer and is survived by his wife, Fawn Hall, and a brother and sister.
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