TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Forty years after Jim Morrison was convicted of exposing himself at a wild Miami concert, this is the end: Florida’s Clemency Board, egged on by departing Gov. Charlie Crist, pardoned The Doors’ long-dead singer Thursday.

EDITOR'S NOTE: STEPHEN DAVIS IS THE AUTHOR OF THE BIOGRAPHY JIM MORRISON: LIFE, DEATH, LEGEND (2004). HIS NEW BOOK IS LZ-'75: THE LOST CHRONICLES OF LED ZEPPELIN'S 1975 AMERICAN TOUR (BOTH FROM GOTHAM).

(CNN)—︎Jim Morrison has been dead for 40 years, but he's still causing trouble.

DID HE OR DIDN'T HE? EITHER WAY, IT TOOK A LONG TIME FOR AMERICA TO FORGIVE THE LIZARD KING'S ACT OF LEWDNESS

On March 1 1969, in Miami, Florida, Jim Morrison could be seen performing any number of acts that sensible citizens of a Southern-state city would have found distasteful.

UP FOR A POSTHUMOUS PARDON NEXT WEEK IN FLORIDA FOR INDECENT EXPOSURE CHARGES FROM 1969, THE DRUMMER TELLS THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, “IF JIM HAD REVEALED THE GOLDEN SHAFT, I WOULD HAVE KNOWN.”