DAVID FLUSFEDER REVIEWS JIM MORRISON: LIFE, DEATH, LEGEND BY STEPHEN DAVIS

Jim Morrison was, as lead singer of the Los Angeles band the Doors, the yelping baritone voice of a brief, very unbuttoned era. The group released their first album in 1967. Morrison died in a Paris bathtub in 1971. His grave, at Père Lachaise cemetery, has been ever since a pilgrimage site for generations of youth with tastes for narcotics and alcohol and for handsome men declaiming adolescent, liberationist poetry.

JIM MORRISON'S DEATH AFFIRMED HIS PLACE IN ROCK AND ROLL MYTHOLOGY, SAYS NEIL MCCORMICK

Was Jim Morrison murdered? The short answer is surely no, despite Marianne Faithfull’s rather belated and strangely throwaway remark to Mojo magazine that she knows “who killed” him in Paris in 1971.

A GIANT LIZARD THAT LIVED 40 MILLION YEARS AGO AT A TIME WHEN EARTH WAS A HOTHOUSE HAS BEEN NAMED IN HONOUR OF ROCK SINGER JIM MORRISON.

Around 1.80m (six feet) from snout to tail and tipping the scales at up to 27 kilos (60 pounds), the plant-eating reptile is one of the biggest-known lizards ever to have lived on land.

FORMER MEMBERS OF THE DOORS MARKED THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF JIM MORRISON ON SUNDAY BY LIGHTING CANDLES AT HIS GRAVE IN PARIS.

AN ARSONIST SWEPT THROUGH THE HOLLYWOOD AREA UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS ON FRIDAY, TORCHING VEHICLES WHOSE FLAMES IGNITED NEARBY HOUSES, INCLUDING ONE ONCE OCCUPIED BY DOORS FRONTMAN JIM MORRISON.

THEY WON A GREAT DEAL OF POSTHUMOUS CELEBRITY FOR BEING OUTLAWS – AND OUTLAWS THEY SHOULD REMAIN, SAYS JENNY MCCARTNEY.

Another week, and talk of yet another pardon: this time for Billy the Kid, the 19th-century outlaw who was shot dead by Sheriff Pat Garrett.

JIM MORRISON COULD BE GRANTED A POSTHUMOUS PARDON 40 YEARS AFTER HIS CONVICTION FOR INDECENT EXPOSURE, COURTESY OF OUTGOING FLORIDA GOVERNOR CHARLIE CRIST.

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.

SHE SAID THAT SPARKS LITERALLY FLEW WHEN THEY MET, AND IN LATER YEARS SHE CLASHED WITH THE ESTATE OF HER LOVE RIVAL PAMELA COURSON

SECURITY GUARDS HAVE BEEN HIRED TO PATROL AROUND THE GRAVE OF ROCK STAR JIM MORRISON, AFTER COMPLAINTS THAT HIS FANS HAVE BEEN VANDALISING THE CEMETERY.