# Jerry Hopkins Dead at 82

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-hopkins-dead-at-82/815380>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** celebrity-death\
**Created:** [June 3, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-hopkins-dead-at-82/815380 "2018-06-03T23:38:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-hopkins-dead-at-82/815380/1 "2018-06-03T23:38:51Z")

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Story [here](https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1478161/best-selling-author-jerry-hopkins-dies). Fellow long-time Bangkok resident and author of the Jim Morrison bio _No Gets Out of Here Alive_, an excellent book that was the basis for the Oliver Stone film _The Doors_.

I never met him, but we very well could have been in the same bar at times, as I know he was fond of an afternoon tipple in the now-defunct Three Roses Bar in Bangkok’s Nana Plaza, a good bar that I found myself in from time to time, back in the day.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-hopkins-dead-at-82/815380/2 "2018-06-04T00:13:16Z")

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\*Co-author.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-hopkins-dead-at-82/815380/3 "2018-06-04T02:14:35Z")

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Yes, quite right. With Danny Sugarman.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-hopkins-dead-at-82/815380/4 "2018-06-04T05:56:55Z")

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I got to party in the motel room that Jim wrote “cars hiss pass my window” or whatever that song was.

Friend of mine from college family owned it. Kind of a dump.

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**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2018, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jerry-hopkins-dead-at-82/815380/5 "2018-06-04T16:38:48Z")

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I got his history of rock book and Nik Cohns at the same time when I was a little kid, to learn about rock. I never stopped being interested.