DOORS FRONT MAN JIM MORRISON REMAINS FASCINATING—EVEN IF HIS LITERARY AMBITIONS NEVER CAME TO FRUITION.
Jim Morrison’s bright spotlight time with The Doors lasted not quite five years: the band’s debut album arrived in January 1967, and L.A. Woman, the final work to feature the singer, was released the week of his death, aged 27, on July 3, 1971.
IN AN EXCERPT FROM "MONEY, MURDER AND DOMINICK DUNNE," ROBERT HOFLER DETAILS THE LATE WRITER’S STUDIO FILMS WITH HUSBAND JOHN GREGORY DUNNE
As two of the biggest rock bands on the planet, Led Zeppelin and The Doors were bound to develop a rivalry. During their respective reigns, they cultivated a sort of cross-Atlantic version of The Beatles vs The Rolling Stones feud, with Led Zeppelin being characterised as the soft English boys and The Doors as the hard and fast American muscle band.
THE DOORS FRONTMAN JIM MORRISON APPEARS TO BE BACK FROM THE DEAD — IN A GARAGE DOOR DENT.
The People Are Strange star’s shadowy image terrified Neil Byrne and his two kids.
The siblings of Jim Morrison, Anne and Andy Morrison, speak to Salon in an exclusive interview to discuss A Guide to the Labyrinth, one of the most authoritative limited editions ever published by Genesis Publications.
AS HE RELEASES HIS FIRST EVER BOOK, 'SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE', ROBBY KRIEGER REFLECTS ON THE DOORS’ METEORIC CAREER, THE COUNTERCULTURE OF THE 1960S, AND HIS SURPRISING FONDNESS FOR GOLF AND HEROIN.
In 1969, Jim Morrison made a film called HWY: An American Pastoral. The opening shot of the movie sees a stretch of asphalt unspool with the credits painted onto it before the camera eventually arcs towards the bruised sky of a moody desert dusk where the desolate moon hangs like a milk bottle top on a washing line awaiting the hissing company of the night.
During the period in late 1970 and early ’71 when Jim Morrison and his bandmates in the Doors were recording their sixth and final studio album, “L.A. Woman,” at their West Hollywood rehearsal space, the singer was drowning in a booze-fueled bender: drunk nearly every night but sober by morning and ambling across Santa Monica Boulevard for the day’s session.
JIM MORRISON WAS THE ORIGINAL REBEL WITH A CAUSE, ONE THAT BELIEVED IN BOUNDLESS SELF-EXPRESSION EVEN AT THE COST OF IRKING AUTHORITIES AND SOCIETY ITSELF.
Doors guitarist Robby Krieger says late bandmate Jim Morrison welcomed syphilis, arguing that he didn't fear going crazy. The potentially fatal sexually transmitted disease’s symptoms can include the loss of mental faculties, and has long been connected to the lives of 18th and 19th century artists. But the development of modern antibiotics means that it's no longer usually lethal.
