THE DOORS FRONTMAN AND HIS ADMIRAL FATHER LIVED A GENERATION'S TURMOIL.
Addled, dressed in black leather, Jimmy Fallon, had all the mannerisms down: he swayed as he held onto the microphone stand, head lolling on his shoulders during the instrumental breaks; his eyes alternated between passion and oblivion. He had the vocal style down, too—the semi-croon that could ascend to an alarming shriek.
On an otherwise plain wall in an alley near Fourth Street in Long Beach, rebellious Doors frontman Jim Morrison hovers about 15 feet above the ground. Grasping a microphone with both hands and with his head tilted back as he sings, he appears to be flying through the air like a rock star superhero.
JIM MORRISON'S NOTEBOOK IS TO BE AUCTIONED OFF NEXT MONTH. THE 100 PAGES OF WRITING, WHICH REVEAL AN ECLECTIC STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS, ARE EXPECTED TO FETCH UP TO $300,000
NEW YORK - An unpublished notebook containing the musings and poems of Jim Morrison in the last year of his life is included in a coming sale of rock ’n’ roll memorabilia.
A GIANT LIZARD THAT LIVED 40 MILLION YEARS AGO AT A TIME WHEN EARTH WAS A HOTHOUSE HAS BEEN NAMED IN HONOUR OF ROCK SINGER JIM MORRISON.
Around 1.80m (six feet) from snout to tail and tipping the scales at up to 27 kilos (60 pounds), the plant-eating reptile is one of the biggest-known lizards ever to have lived on land.
CNN — To get through the long, tedious hours sitting in the fossil archives at the University of California-Berkeley, Jason Head would listen to the hypnotic sounds of The Doors.
Jim Morrison was a king of sorts, at least in his own mind. The lead singer of the Doors sang in one cover song that he was “a king bee.” In another, he said, “I’m the crawlin’ king snake.”
Who says scientists don't have a sense of humor? Paleontologists studying the fossilized remains of a giant, plant-eating lizard that roamed the country of Myanmar (Burma) up to 40 million years ago have given the creature the scientific name barbaturex morrisoni after classic rock icon Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors, who nicknamed himself "the Lizard King."
Ray Manzarek, who died yesterday at the age of 74, had a voice as rich and stentorian as that of Jim Morrison, the front man of the band they founded in 1965, the Doors. But Manzarek put his voice to work as a raconteur rather than as a singer.
NEW YORK, N.Y. - FORMER DOORS DRUMMER JOHN DENSMORE KEEPS THE SPIRIT OF JIM MORRISON ALIVE IN HIS NEW BOOK, "THE DOORS UNHINGED: JIM MORRISON'S LEGACY GOES ON TRIAL." THE 68-YEAR DRUMMER IS NO STRANGER TO CHRONICLING HIS FORMER BAND.
