THE DOCUMENTARY WILL FOCUS ON MORRISON AS A "POLYMATH", FEATURING NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN CONTENT FROM THE LATE ARTIST
Jim Morrison is set to be the subject of a new documentary detailing his multi-disciplined career, from being the frontman of The Doors to stints in poetry and filmmaking.
DOORS FRONTMAN JIM MORRISON WILL BE THE SUBJECT OF A NEW FEATURE-LENGTH DOCUMENTARY THAT WILL FOCUS ON THE TOTALITY OF HIS ARTISTRY.
When The Doors first formed in 1965, starting a song with a lightning crack and an apocalyptical atmosphere was out of the question. In the eternal summer of peace and love, the flowery sanguine sound that most of the mainstream music in the era propagated was in direct contrast to the iconoclasm that followed shortly after.
BECAUSE NO AUTOPSY WAS EVER PERFORMED, THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW JIM MORRISON DIED IN HIS PARIS BATHTUB AT AGE 27 HAS REMAINED MURKY FOR DECADES.
PARIS (AP) — Paris on Saturday was the only place to be for die-hard Jim Morrison fans.
Fifty years after his death at age 27, rock music lovers from France and across the world came to the Pere-Lachaise cemetery in eastern Paris where The Doors' frontman is buried. Many brought candles and pictures, and some burned incense sticks near his grave as police watched nearby.
JIM MORRISON DIED 50 YEARS AGO, ON JULY 3, 1971. HIS PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS LIVED IN CORONADO AND OTHER PLACES IN THE SAN DIEGO AREA. IN THE EARLY 1960s JIM VISITED AND STAYED WITH HIS PARENTS IN CORONADO FOR A SHORT WHILE. REMEMBRANCE BY DR. JERRY OLIVAS.
WE'RE PULLING ONE FROM THE ARCHIVES FOR A UNIQUE CELEBRATION OF THE ICONIC FRONTMAN OF THE DOORS.
This Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Jim Morrison, but back in 1991, triple j flew Richard Kingsmill to Paris to mark what was the 20th anniversary.
Jim Morrison was no longer the rock ’n’ roll god he had been just four short years before.
Once the Doors singer was lithe and oozed bad-boy sex appeal. Now he was a bloated boozer living in quasi-exile in Paris.
MORRISON’S ABSTRACT PRONOUNCEMENTS DO NOT SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES – THEY NEED A VOICE BEYOND HIS GRAVE
Shaman? Poet? Dionysus of his age? Pub bore? Musical trailblazer? A literal and metaphorical hitchhiker? Jim Morrison was all of these, sometimes more, sometimes less.
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF JIM MORRISON FEATURES UNPUBLISHED POETRY, HANDWRITTEN SONG NOTES, AN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY AND UNSEEN FAMILY PHOTOS
