Former Doors manager Danny Sugerman has died, aged 50, after a long struggle with lung cancer. Sugerman rose to the role of manager for the Doors after blagging a job in their West
Hollywood office answering fan mail. He rose up the hierarchy until he was co-managing the band with Jeff Jampol and The Firm, more recently coordinating the band's archives and back catalogue. After Jim Morrison's death he was involved in a 1981 book about the band, offered fans a further insight through his autobiography 'Wonderland Avenue', and was consulted by Oliver Stone on his 1990 movie 'The Doors'.
Paying tribute to Sugerman, one of the music manager's friends, LA historian/author Harvey Kubernik, told reporters this weekend: "Danny—was a character—who literally gave his literary soul for rock & roll. Besides the books he wrote and assembled documenting the Doors' legacy and audio impact, Danny toiled and passionately worked constantly—for decades on behalf of the band's archives—and influential catalogue—that so many people were—inspired from."