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Steve Turner, The Independent, 23 March 1991

PÈRE-LACHAISE CEMETERY is bizarre enough in itself – 100,000 sepulchres crowded into a busy Paris suburb and rolling down hillsides like an invading army from Hades. But nothing prepared me for Jim Morrison’s resting place in division six. Not even the warning of Danny Sugerman, Morrison’s biographer, who told me the week before my visit that it was "pathetic and we’re embarrassed by it and there is nothing we can do".

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