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July 11, 2007, 7:21 PM UTC / Source: The Associated Press. The official story goes like this: On the last night of Jim Morrison’s life, the rocker went to a movie in Paris, listened to...
- The Years Leading Up to Jim Morrison’s Death
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Born on December 8, 1943, Jim Morrison seemed an unlikely character to become a rock star. The son of a future U.S. Navy Rear Admiral, Morrison grew up in a strict household. But it didn’t take long for him to rebel. Although he kept his grades up and liked to read and write, Morrison also experimented with alcohol at a young age. When he graduated...
In Paris, Jim Morrison and Pamela Courson rented an apartment at 17 rue Beautreillis near the Seine River. They spent their days strolling around their adopted city. Morrison wrote nearly every day. And, during the night, the couple enjoyed exploring the chic world of Parisian nightlife. Although Morrison had gained some weight, the last photos of ...
In 2007, a former New York Timesjournalist named Sam Bernett — who had once managed the Rock’n’Roll Circus club in Paris — came forward with an alarming story. In Bernett’s telling, Jim Morrison did not die in a bathtub. Instead, his book The End: Jim Morrisonclaims that The Doors frontman actually died in a toilet stall at Rock’n’Roll Circus. Whil...
The most widely accepted account of Jim Morrison’s death is that he and Courson spent the night doing heroin and listening to music together. They snorted the drug because Morrison was reportedly afraid of needles. Unfortunately, that particular batch of heroin was too strong for Morrison. However, many specific details of the night remain unclear ...
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Jul 2, 2020 · On the last night of Morrison’s life, his girlfriend, Pamela Courson, booked an apartment at 17-19, rue Beautreillis in Le Marais, 4th arrondissement, Paris where the rocker reportedly listened to records, fell ill and died of a heath attack in his bathtub on July 3, 1971. He was 27.
Last year, a handwritten poem found in his Paris apartment went up for auction. Its final, ominous line read, “Last words, Last words out.”. via The Vintage News / Dangerous Minds. Related Content: “The Lost Paris Tapes” Preserves Jim Morrison’s Final Poetry Recordings from 1971.
Jul 3, 2015 · Jim Morrison's body was discovered on July 3, 1971 in the bathtub of the Paris apartment he shared with girlfriend Pamela Courson. ... 1971 in the bathtub of the Paris apartment he shared with ...
Jun 1, 1972 · Slamming the door in the Woodstock Nation. June 1 1972 Bernard Wolfe Jean Lagarrigue. M inutes before dawn, July 3, in the bathroom of his Paris hotel suite, at age twenty-seven, James Douglas Morrison, most flamboyantly swinging but least open of The Doors, a Los Angeles rock group, stopped breathing. The causes, reported six days later and ...
