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| Birth name | Daniel Stephen Sugerman |
| Born | (1954-10-11)October 11, 1954 |
| Origin | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Died | January 5, 2005(2005-01-05) (aged 50) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Music manager |
| Years active | 1967–2005 |
Daniel Stephen Sugerman (October 11, 1954 – January 5, 2005) was the second manager of theLos Angeles–based rock bandthe Doors. He wrote several books aboutJim Morrison and the Doors, includingNo One Here Gets Out Alive (co-authored withJerry Hopkins), and the autobiographyWonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess.[1]
Sugerman grew up inBeverly Hills. His family’s neighbors wereFred Astaire,Steve McQueen andRaquel Welch.[citation needed] At eleven, hisJewish-American[2] parents divorced and his mother Harriet moved Danny and his siblings toWestchester, Los Angeles where she lived with a patent attorney who was a harsh disciplinarian. Danny attendedWestchester High School in Los Angeles, where he regularly authored articles about The Doors in the student newspaper. He attended summer camp near Lakeshore City, California withTodd Fisher, Steven Crane Jr. and sons of golferKen Venturi andDon Knotts. Danny graduated from Westchester High School in 1972.[citation needed]
He began working with the Doors when he was 12 years old, answering their fan mail. At age 17 he replaced the Doors' original manager,Bill Siddons, following the death of Morrison in July 1971.
He later went on to manageRay Manzarek's solo career and first album. He was alsoIggy Pop's manager for a period, and produced his song "Repo Man", before they both ended up in mental hospitals suffering from drug and alcohol addiction.[3] It was during this time that he was also manager for the L.A based glam/punk band,The Joneses, whose founder and lead singer,Jeff Drake, supplied them with high quality heroin.[citation needed]He also wroteAppetite For Destruction: The Days of Guns N' Roses in 1991.
For a short while in the 1980s, Sugerman dated actressMackenzie Phillips.In 1993, he marriedFawn Hall, who had been one of the principals in theIran–Contra affair. They remained married until his death.[4][5] They briefly metMP3.com co-founderRod Underhill while Hall was employed there. Underhill later stated that "Sugerman was very interesting. He had appeared to go out of his way to appear visually like Jim Morrison. Same type of haircut, similar clothing. The similarity was uncanny."[citation needed] Sugerman discussed his idolization of Morrison in detail, in his autobiographical bookWonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess.
InWonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess Sugerman went into detail about hisheroin addiction and his involvement with drug dealers. At one point, he found solace inBuddhism,[6] though he did not mention his interest in his memoir. It ends with a two-page chapter that reminds the reader of drug users whose behavior he described in previous chapters, and he says that as of 1988 they are all dead, incarcerated or, in one person’s case, doing his third stint in “a residential addict recovery facility.”
Sugerman died on January 5, 2005, in Los Angeles, fromlung cancer.[7]
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