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Jim Morrison

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Jim Morrison: This is the End, Beautiful Friend

Obituary by Al Aronowitz, Melody Maker, 17 July 1971

Al Aronowitz on the death of Jim Morrison ...

Why Manager Kept Silent About Jim Morrison's Sudden Death

Interview by Ann Moses, New Musical Express, 24 July 1971

Ann Moses in Hollywood ...

No One Here Gets Out Alive: The Biography Of Jim Morrison by Jerry Hopkins and Daniel Sugerman (Warner Books)

Book Review by Dave DiMartino, Creem, October 1980

Dead Pigeon On Love Street ...

R.I.P. Giants – The Dead Certs

Overview by Ed Jones, Melody Maker, 25 January 1975

How dying can be a good career move. ...

Roll Over Elvis : The Second Coming Of Jim Morrison

Memoir by Eve Babitz, Esquire, March 1991

I know why I loved him. I know why lots of women loved him. But what I want to know is this: Why now, does ...

That's Another Fine Messiah You've Got Me Into

Comment by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 6 April 1996

John Lennon thought The Beatles were bigger than IT, some people think Elvis is/was IT and Michael Jackson seems to think he is IT. So ...

From Iggy Pop to Michael Hutchence: The rock stars influenced by Doors frontman Jim Morrison

Comment by Johnny Sharp, Daily Mirror, 8 December 2013

THE SINGER, POET, self-proclaimed shaman and "Lizard King", exhibitionist and riotous drunk: The Doors' iconic frontman Jim Morrison would have celebrated his 70th birthday today. ...

Pam Morrison: A Final Curtain on Her Affair with Life

Report by Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 6 June 1974

LOS ANGELES — "Pamela was Jim's other half," said ex-Door Ray Manzarek. "The two of them were a perfect combination; I never knew another person ...

Jim Morrison at Thee Experience

Book Excerpt by Kirk Silsbee, 'The Doors: Summer's Gone', September 2017

AFTER THE DOORS had tasted success, Hollywood was Jim Morrison's playground. The Whisky a Go Go in West Hollywood, which launched the band, showcased all ...

L.A. Woman and the Last Days of Jim Morrison

Retrospective and Interview by Max Bell, Classic Rock, August 2010

Forget what you think you know. How Jim Morrison REALLY died, by the people who found the body, moved the body and buried him… ...

Jim Morrison: Remembering Morrison

Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Fusion, June 1974

THE rock world was still staggering from the back-to-back deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin when they were suddenly and mysteriously joined in pop ...

Last Drongo In Paris

Report by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 4 May 1974

FRANCOIS MITTERAND… GUY CHABAN DELMAS… GISCARD D'ESTAING… YOU WILL BE AS RELIEVED AS US TO LEARN THAT NONE OF THESE TURGID FRENCH DEMAGOGUES APPEAR IN ...

Jim Morrison, Dec. 1943-July 1971

Obituary by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 17 July 1971

AMERICA DIDN'T have a Jagger. It did have Jim Morrison... the first major American male sex symbol since James Dean. ...

Jim Morrison: An American Prayer

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 2 December 1978

A BOOK could be written (and has been), about James Douglas Morrison, sometime sex symbol, filmmaker, poet, drunk and rock 'n' roll star, so I ...

Jim Morrison: An American Prayer (Elektra 5E-502)*****

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 2 December 1978

Flashes from the archives of oblivion (Thank you, Roy Harper) ...

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