Put simply, because of The Doors, I chose music as my life path. I was actually drawn by the instrumentation primarily, as well as by Jim Morrison of course. As musicians I found them to be unique and masterful. Their songs, as well as the atmosphere and intensity they created, had a tremendous impact on me growing up.

The iconic sixties band lost their lead singer at just 27-years-old, but Jim Morrison and The Doors’ legacy lives on. During their touring years, The Moving Sidewalks opened for the band. Guitarist Billy Gibbons went on to form ZZ Top and reminisces of his time with The Doors in a new documentary film called ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band From Texas.

DOORS FRONTMAN MAKES THE MOST OF HIS COLLEGE MEAL PLAN

Jim Morrison was a fan of flab, as a newly unearthed 1969 interview with the Doors frontman reveals. In it, he explains why "fat is beautiful" to director/journalist Howard Smith and relays how he made the most of his meal plan while in college, growing to about 185 pounds and feeling great.

Three months after The Doors released their classic L.A. Woman Jim Morrison was dead. The album was Morrison’s final record with the band but according to guitarist Robby Krieger, Morrison was in a great mood while they made the album.

JIM WAS LOADS OF FUN!’ SAYS HIS SISTER AND EXECUTOR, WHO OVERSAW THE NEW BOOK, ‘THE COLLECTED WORKS OF JIM MORRISON: POETRY, JOURNALS, TRANSCRIPTS AND LYRICS’

The sister of Doors singer Jim Morrison said their father, a decorated flag officer in the U.S. Navy, offered to resign as his son became a counterculture icon.

NEW BOOK CONTAINS MUSICIAN’S JOURNALS AND MUSINGS

Jim Morrison’s sister Anne Morrison Chewning has reflected on The Doors frontman pretending that his family were all dead.

THE DOORS FRONTMAN’S SISTER ANNE MORRISON CHEWNING HELPED COMPILE HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF HIS MUSINGS, POETRY, AND LYRICS—HONORING THE SINGER’S WISH TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AS A WRITER.

Jim Morrison liked to brag about his fast-lane lifestyle. “I’m gonna get my kicks before the whole s – – thouse goes up in flames,” he was fond of saying.

Turns out his body was the s – – thouse. And like an arsonist in leather pants, he burned it to the last cinder, a spectacle that nobody close to him enjoyed watching.

Jim Morrison, frontman of The Doors, was just 27 when he died in 1971. ‘A Guide to the Labyrinth: The Collected Works of Jim Morrison’ is a vast new collection of his never-before-seen poetry, songwriting and personal diaries. Georgina Godwin speaks to Anne Morrison, the singer’s younger sister and the co-executor of his works, about this revelatory and intimate anthology.