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Jim Morrison. James Douglas Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer, songwriter and poet who was the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band the Doors. Due to his energetic persona, poetic lyrics, distinctive voice, erratic and unpredictable performances, along with the dramatic circumstances surrounding ...
- Who Was Jim Morrison?
- Family Background
- Rebellious Youth
- The Doors
- Troubled Times and Death
Jim Morrison was an American rock singer and songwriter. He studied film at UCLA, where he met the members of what would become the Doors, an iconic band that would have hits like "Light My Fire," "Hello, I Love You," "Touch Me" and "Riders on the Storm." Known for his drinking, drug use and outrageous stage behavior, in 1971 Morrison left the Door...
Singer and songwriter Jim Morrison was born James Douglas Morrison on December 8, 1943, in Melbourne, Florida. His mother, Clara Clarke Morrison, was a homemaker, and his father, George Stephen Morrison, was a naval aviator who rose to the rank of Rear Admiral. George was the commander of U.S. naval forces aboard the flagship USS Bon Homme Richard ...
Morrison moved frequently as a child due to his father's naval service, first from Florida to California and then to Alexandria, Virginia, where he attended George Washington High School. As a teen, Morrison began to rebel against his father's strict discipline, discovering alcohol and women and bristling at various forms of authority. "One time he...
In 1965, Morrison joined classical pianist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robbie Krieger and drummer John Densmore to form a band, the Doors. With Morrison as vocalist and frontman, Elektra Records signed the Doors the following year, and in January 1967 the band released its self-titled debut album. The Doors' first single, "Break on Through (To the Othe...
Morrison spent nearly the entirety of his adult life with a woman named Pamela Courson, and although he briefly married a music journalist named Patricia Kennealy in a Celtic pagan ceremony in 1970, he left everything to Courson in his will. (She was deemed his common law wife by the time of his death.) Throughout his relationships to Courson and K...
After signing with Elektra Records in 1966, the Doors with Morrison recorded and released six studio albums in five years, some of which are generally considered among the greatest of all time, [5] [6] including their debut The Doors (1967), Strange Days (1967), and L.A. Woman (1971).
- Los Angeles, California
- 1965–1973, 1978
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May 8, 2017 · The album also featured a rousing live version of “Roadhouse Blues.”. The album, credited to “Jim Morrison” with “Music by The Doors,” reached No. 54, and sold a quarter of a million on its initial release, respectable figures for a spoken word album; it also received a Grammy nomination.
Dec 16, 2016 · By Kory Grow. December 16, 2016. The Doors' Robby Krieger (second from right) and John Densmore (left) reflect on the band's earliest concerts, chronicled on the recently released box set 'London...
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Jul 5, 2013 · By Valerie Reich. July 5, 2013 6:45pm. Jim Morrison Getting off Plane 1968 - P 2013. Hulton Archive/Getty Images. A new documentary about the early life of The Doors frontman Jim Morrison...
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