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Jim Morrison's voice was a solid stone of honesty, like the rock of Gibraltar, in a time of overzealous peace and love. He was pure sexuality and unashamed of his unabashed masculinity. For over forty years the band have been studied and written about. Their mark in history is written in steel and stone. It is difficult to find the same telepathic nuance in a collective consciousness that they held as a band.

Morrison's poetry discovered a home with founding member Ray Manzarek's psychedelic keyboard sound. Ray's brother and another founding member quit soon after they began to rehearse, so Morrison and Ray recruited drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger to complete the line up. It was difficult for the doors to get recognized for their brilliance during an era of Beach Boys fans in LA. Little did they know just a year later the first Doors vinyl album would be available. The Doors' vinyl record "The Doors" included the hits "Light My Fire" and "Break On Through (To The Other Side)", in addition to their most notorious story "The End".

"The End" was always a crowd favorite due to the images that would spew forth from Jim's lips in a drug induced daze. You never knew what was to come at the actual end of his rant. This time, would he sing of gory sacrifices orwould it be a sex laden version? Or would he just string long inconsequential words into a chaos of nothing?

Even though Jim was the primary writer, few people know that it was Krieger that wrote the beginning of their biggest hit "Light My Fire". He had originally written an uplifting love ballad until Jim came in with "funeral pyre" leading once again to death. Jim has said that all life ends in death, and thus should poems. Not much of a disclosure when you ponder the William Blake quote that the group was named after: "If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is—infinite."

In 1971 the Lizard King sadly died of a drug and alcohol overdose in France. By 1973, the rest of the group eventually called it quits due to lack of sales. The world lost a great philosopher, and who knows what music would be like today if Jim would have continued.

The original Doors vinyl records are still in high demand and sell at high cost on the web. The Doors have sold more than 100 million vinyl records worldwide, and sales are still great. Bearing in mind they only made six albums with Jim, this is really impressive. Each year more Doors albums will be collected due to a new generation done with commercial empty music discovering the deep poetry of Morrison's lyrics and vocals.

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My name is Mirela Lungu, I'm from Romania. I studied painting at Fine Arts University in Bucharest, and I like to express myself through different mediums.

My intention through these works is to pay homage to Jim Morrison, one of the greates icons. I want to do a big project, because I am absolutely fascinated by him, by The Doors music.

I intend to cover the different sides of his extensive personality, to approach the project also from a conceptual perspective, and I am very interested by the connection between music and painting and when I start a painting with Jim and listen to his music, I don't now for sure how this is this going to look in the end, but this is what I like the most. Thank you very much.

(NewsCore) - A study published in Britain on Tuesday has cast doubt on the belief that musicians are at greatest risk of dying at the age of 27—a theory which experienced a resurgence this year with the death of Amy Winehouse.

The research, which appears in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), said that despite the high-profile deaths of Jimi Hendrix, The Doors singer Jim Morrison, blues guitarist Robert Johnson, Janis Joplin, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, Hole bassist Kirsten Pfaff, Winehouse and a host of other musicians at the same age, there was no proof there was any greater risk for musicians in their 28th year.

Health statisticians led by Adrian Barnett, of the Queensland University of Technology in Australia, put the "27 Club" hypothesis to the test, AFP reported.

They compiled a data base of 1,046 musicians—solo artists and band members—who had a No. 1 album in the British charts between 1956 and 2007, a net that included musicians from all genres. The first person included was Frank Sinatra and the last was Leona Lewis.

During the period under study, 71 of the musicians died, equivalent to seven percent of the sample, but there was no peak at all in deaths at the age of 27.

On the other hand, musicians in their 20s and 30s were two to three times likelier to die prematurely than the general British population.

"The 27 Club is unlikely to be a real phenomenon," the paper concluded. "Fame may increase the risk of death among musicians, but this risk is not limited to age 27."

Among the findings was that the 1970s and early 1980s brought a peak in musician deaths—Hendrix, Morrison, Mama Cass, Led Zeppelin's John Bonham and AC/DC singer Bon Scott among them—with a steep decline since then.

Source: British Medical Journal