THE ORIGINAL "DEATH BENEFITS" CARD ISSUED AFTER THE DOORS SINGER JIM MORRISON DIED IS TO GO UNDER THE HAMMER AT AUCTION.

The American rock star perished in a bath in Paris aged 27 in 1971 after a suspected heroin overdose.

PAST BEHAVIOURS MUST BE RECKONED WITH TO HIGHLIGHT PRESENT CRIMES

On this day 51 years ago, The Doors released Morrison Hotel, an album that stands as another piece in the puzzle that secured Jim Morrison’s place in legend as arguably the archetype of an envelope pushing rock star. Including tracks penned for his on-off girlfriend Pamela Courson like "The Spy" and "Queen Of The Highway," the album has become the soundtrack to the popular memory of Morrison as a tortured romantic and sex symbol.

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.