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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...
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.
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- He coulda been killed by his asthma. Morrison suffered from asthma and took a prescribed drug called Marax, via an inhaler, which has subsequently been banned in the USA since it was decided that taking it in conjunction with alcohol could result in death.
- He was a bit of a lech. Jim’s favourite hang out was a go-go club called The Phone Booth, where he and pal Tom Baker liked to chat to the strippers and lift up their skirts.
- He pretended to like world music to get girls. When he lived with Hungarian artist Eva Gardonyi from late 1970 to March 1971, Jim enjoyed listening to her ethnic folk music albums from Eastern Europe and Africa.
- Even if he’d survived Paris, The Doors wouldn’t have recorded again. Would The Doors have recorded after LA Woman? Not according to Eva. “He wasn’t on good terms with any of them.
Sep 30, 2021 · The album was released in April 1971. It hit the Top 10 a few weeks later. During the making of L.A. Woman, Morrison’s partner Pamela Courson went to Paris and stayed with Count Jean de Breteuil, a wealthy socialite with a penchant for blondes, violence against women and horrendous heroin abuse.
Dec 16, 2016 · 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 Fog 1966 ...
Jim Morrison, American singer and songwriter who was the charismatic front man of the psychedelic rock group the Doors, who were known for hit songs such as ‘Light My Fire’ and ‘Hello, I Love You.’. Learn more about Morrison’s life and musical career in this article.
