Bright Midnight: Live In America

There’s something for everybody on these new Doors collections: Those looking for more reasons to crow about how insufferable Jim Morrison could be will find plenty of ammunition in the concerts documented on The Bright Midnight Sampler and The Doors Live in Detroit.

Jim Morrison in circa 1970. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty

James Douglas Morrison, Poet: Dead at 27

THE DOORS SINGER AND SONGWRITER PASSED AWAY IN PARIS

Jim Morrison, a man who sang, wrote and drank hard as lead singer of the Doors, has died—peacefully—at the age of 27. Morrison’s death, despite (and because of) strategic efforts on the part of his wife Pamela and friends, was shrouded in mystery.

Photograph by Gloria Stavers

Jim Morrison Lives: The Legacy of the Lizard King

TEN YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH, THREE WRITERS EXPLORE THE CULT OF THE MYTHICAL LATE DOORS SINGER

Jim Morrison, 1981: Renew My Subscription to the Resurrection
by Rosemary Breslin

Kelly’s mother picked up the phone for the fifth time that night. It was for sixteen-year-old Kelly.

Jim Morrison on Why Fat is Beautiful | Blank on Blank

Jim Morrison Says ‘Fat is Beautiful’ in Newly Unearthed Interview

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.

Jim Morrison of The Doors, 1969. CBS/Getty Images

The Rolling Stone Interview: Jim Morrison

THE DOORS SINGER BREAKS ON THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE

Few performers have been so consistently controversial as James Douglas Morrison, the vocalist and songwriter of the Doors. And none has caused so many writers to construct so much gothic imagery in an effort to describe the mystique.