Dors group leader. Remembering Jim Morrison

Frank Lisciandro entered UCLA film school at the same time as Morrison. They had known each other for six years. He has seen the Doors perform in New York and Los Angeles. He worked on Morrison's 1969 film HWY: An American Pastoral and the 1970 live tape Feast of Friend. In his new book, Jim Morrison: Friends Gathered Together, he's compiled serious interviews with thirteen of Jim's lesser-known friends, such as manager Bill Siddons, his wife, tour manager Vince Treanor, a friend of Babe Hill. Morrison's girlfriend Eva Gardonyi also got into this company. As a result, each of the friends offers their own take on the Lizard King.

Asthma could kill him

Jim suffered from asthma and took the medicine Marax, which he injected through an inhaler. The drug was subsequently banned in the US because it was believed to be fatal when combined with alcohol. For example, Eva Gardonyi heard from Pamela Courson that Jim's asthma had something to do with the heart. Like the doctor said.

He was lustful

His favorite way to party was at the Phone Booth go-go club, where he and his buddy Tom Baker chatted with strippers and pulled up their skirts. Girlfriend Eva usually helped to meet the girls. “Tom and Jim would pull their skirts off and do something stupid, then neigh and pat each other on the back, and then go to another place to clap a couple more glasses.”

To get some girl, he could be interested in her national music

When he lived with the Hungarian Eva Gardonyi from the beginning of 1969 to March 1971, he liked to listen to her ethnic records with folk music from Eastern Europe and Africa. Jim also liked it when Eva dressed up in black lingerie and a garter belt, pretending to be a stripper. Who doesn't like such things?

Even if Jim had not died then in Paris, there would be no new Doors albums

Could there be new records after LA Woman? According to Eva, no. He had a bad relationship with the rest of the band. He was very dissatisfied with them.

Asking him to drop him somewhere in a wheelbarrow is not a good idea.

Jim had a Ford Mustang called the Blue Lady. Driving down brick roads, down hills at top speed, he liked to terrify his passengers, especially the one sitting in the “seat of death,” as Jim himself called this place to the right of the driver’s seat. Babe Hill remembers how they drove the "Blue Lady" without giving a damn about the limit signs. “We were right behind the Beverly Hills Police Station. They called a tow truck and a taxi. The clutch was burned. I remember I muttered, repeating “Well, here we are going to die.”

Between Peggy Lee and Led Zeppelin, he chose Peggy

When asked what he thinks of zeppelins, Jim replied: “To be honest, I don't listen to rock music, so I've never heard them. I usually listen to classical or something like Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley.” His favorite blues artist was Jimmy Reed, and he especially liked Baby What You Want Me to Do.

It was not drunkenness, but an artistic act

When he fell off the stage at the Shrine Auditorium in December 1967, it was part of the artistic intent. Jim had told his bandmates beforehand that he was going to get as drunk as possible so he wouldn't have to answer for himself later. It must be the appearance of himself in the form of a drunken manifesto.

He had a "beautiful throat"

Babe Hill (Jim's close friend from 1969-1971) says that Jim had the most beautiful throat he had ever seen. Most likely, she came to this state as a result of singing and screaming, which made up a fair share of Morrison's being. Big neck and beautiful developed throat.

He was somehow saved by the nuns

He didn't do it on stage when the Doors played in Amster in 1968 on a European tour. Well, or did, but only during the performance of Jefferson Airplane. Bob, the singer of Canned Heat, gave Jim a bag of dope, which he began to swallow. As a result, Morrison lost consciousness and was rushed to the nearest hospital, which was run by nuns. When Jim woke up, he probably thought he had died and gone to heaven. For he was surrounded by women who, unlike him, knew what he had done and why he had come to them.

Jim preferred bars. Parties elsewhere he hated

After the Doors played the Hollywood Bowl (July 6, 1968), Jim spent the night at his usual place, the Alta Cienega Motel, opposite the Doors office on La Cienega Boulevard, instead of partying at the Chateau Marmont. The hotel manager, Eddie, met Jim and asked about the concert, “Is everything okay? Were you a cool star today? Did the people like it?"

The road to death seemed ordinary

He was already on acid when Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix died. Despite the fact that he was not indifferent to marijuana and phencyclidine, he also smoked a lot. In certain circles, the popular opinion is that he was not friends with cocaine. However, it is not. Since 1969, he has consumed a lot of cocaine. He had a good friendship with a coke dealer named Violet, he was also called the "Queen of Cocaine".

He had a dog named Thor

Jim and his girlfriend had a dog named Sage. This dog outlived them both. When Jim went to Paris in 1971, he mailed money to the States to keep the dog. He was often photographed with Sage, as well as two other dogs named Stoner and Thor.

He got smuggled into Jamaica

After a concert in Miami (March 1, 1969), the Doors were dumped in Jamaica. Jim was there alone in the big house on the island, smoking dray weed with the manager of the house, and growing more and more frantic and frightened. According to Eva Gardonyi, he had a very strange coming, as he began to hallucinate about people who were going to kill him. His night was spent in fear, and this fear had a very strong effect on him, forcing him to treat blacks differently. He said that he did not believe them before and did not understand. He was like a white boy who did not understand his place in all this.

He did not trudge from festivals

Leon Barnard says that in May 1970, Jim on Canadian television described Woodstock with the words "Half a million people wallowing in hell knows what." Jim did not perceive this event as a festival of love at all.

He had a taste for the classics

Album 1970 Absolutely Live Jim wanted to call as Lions In The Street (Lions on the street). He also had the idea to release an album of poems recorded in 1969, calling it The Rise and Fall of James Phoenix (The Rise and Fall of James Phoenix). Leon Barnard says that Jim dropped the idea of ​​Lions In The Street because the rest of the band was against it. But The Rise and Fall of James Phoenix he wanted to be published with a philharmonic orchestra behind his poetry. He wanted something classic that wasn't rock 'n' roll.

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Considered one of the most charismatic frontmen in the history of rock music. Morrison is known both for his distinctive voice and for his distinctive stage presence, self-destructive lifestyle, and his poetic output. Rolling Stone magazine named him one of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.

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Biography

In the life of the military, moving is frequent, and one day, when Jim was only four years old, something happened in the state of New Mexico that he later described as one of the most important events of his life: a truck with Indians crashed on the road, and their bloody and sick bodies fell out from the truck and lay along the path.

“For the first time I knew fear (…) I think at that moment the souls of those dead Indians, maybe one or two of them, rushed around, writhing, and moved into my soul, I was like a sponge, readily absorbing them.”

Morrison considered this incident the most significant in his life, returning to it in poetry, interviews, in the songs "Dawn's Highway", "Peace Frog", "Ghost Song" from the album An American Prayer, as well as "Riders on the Storm". Jim spent part of his childhood in San Diego, California. In 1962, he entered Florida State University at Tallahassee. In January 1964, Morrison moved to Los Angeles and entered the UCLA Film Department, where he made two films during his studies. Jim liked such artists as Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, The Beach Boys, Love and Kinks.

University

Soon the group was noticed by producer Paul Rothschild from the newly opened label Elektra Records, which had previously released only jazz artists, who ventured to offer the Doors a contract (the group entered the Electra cage along with such giants as Love). The group's first single, "Break On Through", hit #126 on the Billboard charts, but this relative failure was more than made up for by the next, "Light My Fire," which topped the charts. Released at the beginning of 1967, the first album "The Doors" also took first place in the charts and marked the beginning of "dorsomania". One composition of the album - The End, conceived as an ordinary farewell song, gradually became more complicated, acquiring universal images.

Jim Morrison on this song a few years after the album's release:

"The End"... I really don't know what I was going to say. Every time I listen to this song, it seems different to me. At first it was a farewell, maybe with a girl, or maybe with childhood.

The use of hallucinogens, in particular LSD, had a direct impact on the work of Morrison and the Doors: mysticism and shamanism became part of the stage act. “I am a Lizard king. I can do anything, ”Jim said to himself in one of the songs (“I am the king of lizards. I can do anything”). The Doors have managed to become not only a musical phenomenon, but also a cultural phenomenon. The band's sound lacked bass [ ], the emphasis was on hypnotic organ parts and (to a lesser extent) original guitar parts. However, the popularity of The Doors was greatly facilitated by the unique charismatic personality and deep lyrics of their leader Jim Morrison. Morrison was an extremely erudite person, fond of the philosophy of Nietzsche, the culture of the American Indians, the poetry of European symbolists, and much more. In the th year, Jim married a practicing witch, Patricia Kenneally; the wedding was carried out according to the Celtic witchcraft ritual. In our time in America, Jim Morrison is considered not only a recognized musician, but also an outstanding poet: he is sometimes put on a par with William Blake and Arthur Rimbaud. Morrison attracted the band's fans with his unusual behavior. He inspired the young rebels of that era, and the musician's mysterious death further mystified him in the eyes of his fans.

Going forward, Jim's fate was one of downhill skiing: drinking, arrests for obscenity and getting into fights with cops, going from a girls' idol to a fat, bearded slob. More and more material was written by Robbie Krieger, less and less by Jim Morrison. The Doors' late concerts were mostly drunken Morrison's bickering with the audience; this pissed off the band members. In the spring of 1971, the rock star goes with his girlfriend Pamela Courson to Paris to relax and work on a book of poems.

Death

Official version

According to the official version, Jim Morrison died at about 5 am on July 3, 1971 in the IV arrondissement of Paris in the bathroom of a rented apartment at 17 Rue Beautreillis (fr. rue Beautreillis) from a heart attack. According to his old friend Alain Ronay (fr. Alain Ronay), who specially arrived in Paris to meet with Morrison, the day before his death, Jim did not look well and complained of feeling unwell.

They walked around the city, bought a pendant for Pamela in the store and went to a cafe where they had lunch. After that, we visited a film store and took a few films. During the walk, Morrison became severely dizzy several times and had several bouts of hiccups. At about 5 pm they returned back to the musician's apartment. After sitting at a party for another hour, Rone left his friend, leaving him in one of the Parisian cafes, and went to an important meeting.

At the café, Jim ordered three bottles of beer; after drinking them, at about 7 pm he went to the cinema with Pamela Curson. They watched the movie "The Chase" [ ] starring Marlon Brando and returned to their apartment around 10 pm. Around 1:00 am on July 3, Courson and Morrison took heroin. However, years of frequent alcohol and drug use severely undermined his health, and around 3:30 in the morning, a sleeping Morrison from an overdose of heroin began severe convulsions and vomiting reactions. Pamela managed to bring him to his senses and she suggested that he call an ambulance, but Jim refused. Following this, Courson went to bed. What happened next is unknown, but around 5 am Pamela found Morrison in the bathroom in hot water, he was no longer breathing. After the arrival of the ambulance and the police, they found traces on the floor that Morrison vomited heavily before his death and there were signs of nosebleeds on his face.

Morrison's body was not autopsied according to French law. The death certificate states that he died between 4:45 and 5 am on July 3, 1971, unconscious from acute heart failure, caused, presumably, by a heroin overdose. This spawned many alternate versions of Morrison's death that circulated among fans.

Alternative versions

However, no one knows the real cause of his death. Among the options were: a heroin overdose in the men's toilet of the Rock-n-Roll Circus club in Paris or in the nearby Alcazar cabaret (version of Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugarman), suicide, staging of suicide by the FBI, which then actively fought against members of the hippie movement, and so on. Rumors still circulate around his death. British rock singer Marianne Faithfull has claimed that drug dealer and ex-boyfriend Jean de Breteuil was responsible for the death of Jim Morrison. According to Faithfull, de Breteuil gave the singer heroin, which was too strong, and this caused Morrison's death. She stated that de Breteuil then "came to Morrison to see him and killed him." Faithfull at the same time expressed confidence that it was an accident. The only person who saw the death of the singer is Morrison's girlfriend, Pamela. But she took the secret of his death with her to the grave, as she died of a drug overdose three years later. Jim Morrison is buried in Paris at the Père Lachaise Cemetery. His grave has become a place of cult worship for fans who write on neighboring graves with inscriptions about their love for their idol and lines from The Doors songs.

“I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a flying star. Everyone stops, points and whispers in amazement “Look at this!”. And then - fyut, and I'm gone. And they will never see anything like it again, and they will never be able to forget me. Never"

Morrison is a member of the so-called "Club 27"; According to Krieger and Densmore, when members of The Doors were discussing the deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, Morrison dropped: "Perhaps you are drinking with Number Three."

Creation

Literature

• Linda Ashcroft, Wild Child: Life with Jim Morrison, (1997) ISBN 1-56025-249-9
• Lester Bangs, "Jim Morrison: Bozo Dionysus a Decade Later" in Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader, John Morthland, ed. Anchor Press (2003) ISBN 0-375-71367-0
• Patricia Butler, Angels Dance and Angels Die: The Tragic Romance of Pamela and Jim Morrison, (1998) ISBN 0-8256-7341-0
• Stephen Davis, Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend, (2004) ISBN 1-59240-064-7
• John Densmore, Riders on the Storm: My Life With Jim Morrison and the Doors (1991) ISBN 0-385-30447-1
• Dave DiMartino, Moonlight Drive (1995) ISBN 1-886894-21-3
• Wallace Fowlie, Rimbaud and Jim Morrison (1994) ISBN 0-8223-1442-8
• Jerry Hopkins, The Lizard King: The Essential Jim Morrison (1995) ISBN 0-684-81866-3
• Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman, No One Here Gets Out Alive (1980) ISBN 0-85965-138-X
• Patricia Kennealy, Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison (1992) ISBN 0-525-93419-7
• Frank Lisciandro, Morrison - A Feast of Friends (1991) ISBN 0-446-39276-6
• Frank Lisciandro, Jim Morrison - An Hour For Magic (A Photojournal) ISBN 0-85965-246-7
• Ray Manzarek, Light My Fire (1998) ISBN 0-446-60228-0
• Thanasis Michos, The Poetry of James Douglas Morrison (2001) ISBN 960-7748-23-9 (Greek)
• Mark Opsasnick, The Lizard King Was Here: The Life and Times of Jim Morrison in Alexandria, Virginia (2006) ISBN 1-4257-1330-0
• James Riordan & Jerry Prochnicky, Break on through: The Life and Death of Jim Morrison (1991) ISBN 0-688-11915-8
• Adriana Rubio, Jim Morrison: Ceremony…Exploring the Shaman Possession (2005) ISBN 0-9766590-0-X
• The Doors (remaining members Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, John Densmore) with Ben Fong-Torres, The Doors (2006) ISBN 1-4013-0303-X
• Alan Zhukovsky. Metaphorical understanding corporeality in poetry J. Morrison // Russian rock poetry: text and context. Issue. 12. - Tver, Yekaterinburg - 2011. 300 s. ISBN 978-5-7186-0387-3
• Alan Zhukovsky. Metaphorical understanding of corporeality in the poetry of J. Morrison // Proceedings of the XVII International Scientific Conference of Students, Postgraduates and Young Scientists "Lomonosov". Section "Philology". - Moscow - Moscow University Publishing House, 2010. 832 pages. ISBN 978-5-211-05685-5
• Alexey Polikovsky. Morrison. The journey of the shaman. - Moscow - Hummingbird, 2008. 303 pages. ISBN 978-5-389-00077-3
• Jerry Hopkins, Danny Sugarman. None of us will get out of here alive. - Moscow - Amphora, 2007. 480 pages. ISBN 978-5-367-00607-0

Data

• Mentioned in Stephen King's story Rock and Roll Heaven as Lizard king.
• In the 1970s, paleontologist Russell Sayokon (USA) revolutionized science by discovering in Myanmar the remains of a giant lizard that reached 180 cm in length and weighed about 30 kg. The world's largest herbivorous lizard was named Barbaturex morrisoni after Jim Morrison, who once sang, “I am the king of lizards. I can do everything."
• At their pagan wedding, Jim Morrison and Patricia Kenneally-Morrison exchanged Claddagh rings. An image of the rings is included on the cover of Kenneally-Morrison's memoirs, Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison, they are visible in many of her photographs.
• In Simon Green's book The City Where Shadows Die, Jim Morrison is one of the key characters who has returned from the dead and is able to captivate others with his music.
• In Stephen King's novel The Stand, one of the main characters says that he saw Jim Morrison (after his death) when he worked part-time at a gas station.
• In Mick Farren's Jim Morrison After Death, Jim is the protagonist who understands the intricacies of the afterlife.
• In the book Labyrinth of Hidden Books by Paolo Di Reda and Flavia Ermetes (ISBN 978-5-389-02551-6 01), Jim Morrison is one of the key characters.
• In J.R.R. Martin's Wild Cards, Victor Milan's novel Transfigurations features The Doors and James Douglas Morrison (renamed Destiny and Tom Marion Douglas respectively by the writer). Under the influence of an alien virus, Morrison-Douglas receives an aura that gives him the ability to influence the emotions of listeners with increased power, as well as periodically changing his appearance to the image of a man with a snake head ("King of the Lizards").
• In the movie Death to Her Face, Jim Morrison is among Liesl's clients who have the gift of immortality.
• In the movie An American Werewolf in Paris, there is a sex scene at Morrison's grave, in the Père Lachaise cemetery.
• In the movie Cast Away, Tom Hanks' character sings "Come on, baby, light my fire" when he manages to get a fire.
• In the Interns series, one of the main characters, Gleb Romanenko, often mentions that he is a big fan of Morrison.
• In the computer game World of Warcraft, there is a Lord Serpentis boss that says "I am the Serpent King, I can do anything".
• In the computer game Postal 2, the protagonist, when using catnip, says the phrase "Yes, baby, I'm the Lizard King!".
• The Scottish post-rock band Mogwai has a song called "I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead".
• Radiohead has a reference to Morrison in the Anyone Can Play Guitar song "Grow my hair I am Jim Morrison".
• The 69 Eyes have a reference to Morrison in the song "Wasting The Dawn" - "Where the lizard lingers long under the sun Forgetting the night darkest july paris "71".
• The group 5 "nizza has a mention of Morrison in the song "Gone Too Soon".
• In the Tracktor Bowling song "Outside", Morrison is mentioned in a list of great people ("Victims of their ideas that pierced the world through: Morrison and Cobain, Lennon, Sid Vicious or Christ").
• The song of the Crematorium band "Hounds of the Dogs" is a reference to Morrison:
• Rapper Assai's song "Mono":
• Song of the Civil Defense group "Harakiri":
• The song of the Brigadiy group in a row "Seriously":
• Song of the group End of the film "Die Young":
• Band song

Good afternoon, dear gossips!

Recently, several channels showed programs about the Doors group, or rather, about Jim Morrison, which was the main pearl of the team. I immediately wanted to make a post about it. Since it is considered one of the most charismatic frontmen in the history of rock music. He is known both for his distinctive voice and the idiosyncrasy of his own stage figure, self-destructive lifestyle, and his poetic output. Rolling Stone magazine named him one of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. And I absolutely agree with this. Who if not him

Jim Morrison was born in Melbourne, Florida, the son of the future Admiral George Stephen Morrison and Clara Morrison (maiden name Clark). Jim also had a brother, Andrew, and a sister, Ann. Jim was of mixed Scottish, English and Irish blood.

In the life of the military, moving is frequent, and one day, when Jim was only four years old, something happened in the state of New Mexico that he later described as one of the most important events of his life: a truck with Indians crashed on the road, and their bloody and sick bodies fell out from the truck and lay along the path.

“I first knew death (…) I think at that moment the souls of those dead Indians, maybe one or two of them, rushed around, writhing, and moved into my soul, I was like a sponge, readily absorbing them.”

Morrison considered this incident the most significant of his life, returning to it in poetry, interviews, in the songs "Dawn's Highway", "Peace Frog", "Ghost Song" from the album An American Prayer, and also "Riders on the Storm".

Jim spent part of his childhood in San Diego, California. In 1962, he entered Florida State University in Tallahassee. In January 1964, Morrison moved to Los Angeles and entered the UCLA Film Department, where he made two films during his studies. Jim liked such artists as Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, The Beach Boys, Love and Kinks.

At Florida State University in Tallahassee, Jim studied Renaissance history, in particular the work of Hieronymus Bosch and acting, and acted in student productions of plays. After that, Jim studied at the film department of the University of California, but did not take his studies very seriously, and was more interested in parties and alcohol. In late 1964, Jim visited his parents for Christmas. This was the last time he saw them. A few months later, Jim wrote a letter to his parents saying that he wanted to form a rock band. But he did not find understanding with his father, who replied that this was a bad joke. After that, when asked about his parents, Jim always said that they died. Apparently, the parents also treated Jim coolly, because even many years after his death they refused to comment on their son's work. The film, which was his graduation work, was not accepted by either teachers or students. Jim was very worried about this, and even wanted to leave the university two weeks before graduation, but the teachers dissuaded him from this decision.

The Doors

While at UCLA, Jim met and became friends with Ray Manzarek.

Together they formed The Doors. Some time later they were joined by drummer John Densmore and John's friend, Robbie Krieger. Krieger was introduced on Densmore's recommendation and was then incorporated into the band.

The Doors took their name from the title of the book The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley (a reference to the "opening" of the "doors" of perception through the use of psychedelics). Huxley, in turn, took the title of his book from a poem by the English visionary poet William Blake: "If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite" (Russian. If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite). Jim told his friends that he wanted to be that "door of perception." The name of the group was adopted unanimously.

The group began to play in local taverns and their performances were frankly weak, partly due to the amateurishness of the musicians, partly from Jim Morrison's timidity: at first he was even embarrassed to face the audience and sang with his back to the audience. In addition, Jim often came to performances drunk. Luckily for the group, they had an army of female fans, and the angry club owner's "one last time" turned into calls from girls asking when they would see "that hairy guy" again. Six months later, the group had the opportunity to perform in the best club on the Sunset Trip - "Whisky-A-Go-Go".

Soon the group was noticed by producer Paul Rothschild from the newly opened label Elektra Records, which until then released only jazz artists, who ventured to offer the Doors a contract (the group entered the Elektra clip with such giants as Love).

Paul Rothschild

The band's first single, "Break On Through", entered the US Billboard Top 10, and their follow-up, "Light My Fire", reached number one on the charts, a hugely successful debut. Released in early 1967, the first album "The Doors" also took first place in the charts and marked the beginning of "dorsomania". One composition of the album - The End, conceived as an ordinary farewell song, gradually became more complicated, acquiring universal images.

Jim Morrison on this song a few years after the album's release:

"The End"... I really don't know what I was going to say. Every time I listen to this song, it seems different to me. At first it was a farewell, maybe with a girl, or maybe with childhood.

The use of hallucinogens, in particular LSD, had a direct impact on the work of Morrison and The Doors: mysticism and shamanism became part of the stage act. “I am a Lizard king. I can do anything.” - Jim said to himself in one of the songs ("I'm the king of lizards. I can do everything.").

The Doors have managed to become not only a musical phenomenon, but also a cultural phenomenon. The band's sound lacked bass, with an emphasis on hypnotic organ parts and (to a lesser extent) original guitar parts. However, the popularity of The Doors was greatly facilitated by the unique charismatic personality and deep lyrics of their leader Jim Morrison. Morrison was an extremely erudite person, fond of Nietzsche's philosophy, the culture of the American Indians, the poetry of European symbolists, and much more. In 1970, Jim married practicing witch Patricia Kenneally; the wedding was held according to the Celtic witchcraft ritual.

From then on, Jim's fate was a downhill descent: drinking, getting arrested for obscenity and getting into fights with cops, going from a girl's idol to a fat, bearded slob. More and more material was written by Robbie Krieger, less and less by Jim Morrison. The Doors' late gigs featured a drunken Morrison squabbling with the audience for the most part.

In 1971, the rock star went with his girlfriend Pamela Courson to Paris - to relax and work on a book of poems.

With Pamela

According to the official version, Morrison died on July 3, 1971 in Paris from a heart attack, however, no one knows the real cause of his death. Among the options were: a heroin overdose in the Parisian club Rock-n-Roll Circus, suicide, staging of suicide by the FBI services, which were then actively fighting members of the hippie movement, and so on. Rumors still circulate around his death. The only person who saw the singer's death was Morrison's girlfriend, Pamela. But she took the secret of his death with her to the grave, as she died of a drug overdose three years later. Jim Morrison is buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. His grave has become a place of cult worship for fans who write on neighboring graves with inscriptions about their love for their idol and lines from The Doors songs.

(Eng. Jim Morrison, full name James Douglas Morrison - Eng. James Douglas Morrison) - American singer, poet and musician, leader of the group. Born December 8, 1943 in Melbourne, Florida. Died July 3, 1971 in Paris.

In the life of the military, moving is frequent, and one day, when Jim was only four years old, something happened in the state of New Mexico that he later described as one of the most important events of his life: a truck with Indians overturned on the road, and their bloodied bodies lay on the road . “I discovered death for the first time (…) I think at that moment the souls of those dead Indians, maybe one or two of them, rushed around, writhing, and moved into my soul, I was like a sponge, readily absorbing them.”

Entering UCLA, the Faculty of Cinematography, he leads a bohemian lifestyle, reads a lot, takes psychotropic substances, is fond of mysticism and beatniks. Jim's thesis causes an ambiguous reaction from teachers, and he leaves the university with a scandal.

Soon, with their friend, also a student at UCLA Ray Manzarek and joined by guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore, they form the Doors quartet, taking the name from the line of William Blake: "If the doors of perception were cleansed, / Every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite ”(Russian. When the doors of perception are clear / Everything appears as it is - infinite). The group began to play in local taverns and their performances were frankly weak, partly due to the amateurishness of the musicians, partly from Jim Morrison's timidity: at first he was even embarrassed to face the audience and sang with his back to the audience. In addition, Jim often came to performances drunk. Luckily for the group, they had an army of female fans, and the angry club owner's "one last time" turned into calls from girls asking when they would see "that hairy guy" again.

Soon the group was noticed by producer Paul Rothschild from the newly opened Elektra label, which until then released only jazz artists, who ventured to offer the Doors a contract (the group entered the Elektra clip with such giants as Love). The band's first single, "Break On Through," hit the top ten on the US Billboard charts, and the next, "Light My Fire," hit number one on the charts, a hugely successful debut. Released in early 1967, the first album "The Doors" also took first place in the charts and marked the beginning of "dorsomania". The use of hallucinogens, in particular LSD, had a direct impact on the work of Jim and the Doors: mysticism and shamanism became part of the stage act. “I am a Lizard king. I can do anything.” - Jim said to himself in one of the songs ("I'm the lizard king, I can do anything").

From then on, Jim's fate was a downhill descent: drinking, getting arrested for obscenity and getting into fights with cops, going from a girl's idol to a fat, bearded slob. More and more material was written by Robbie Krieger, less and less by Jim Morrison. The Doors' later gigs were mostly drunken Jim's bickering with the audience. In 1971, the worn-out rock star goes with his girlfriend Pamela Courson to Paris to relax and work on a book of poems, where he soon dies. Rumors still circulate around his death. It is believed that Morrison was killed. The only person to see his body was Pamela Carson, who died three years later.

Jim Morrison is buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. His grave has become a place of cult worship for fans who write on neighboring graves with inscriptions about their love for their idol and lines from The Doors songs.

In the early 90s, director Oliver Stone made the film The Doors, dedicated to Morrison. The role of the leader of The Doors was played by Val Kilmer.

In 1978, the American Prayer album was released: shortly before his death, Jim dictated his poems to a tape recorder, and The Doors musicians overlaid musical accompaniment to the poems.
But everything is not so simple: Jim's lyrics, his songs, sincerity and charisma, sociality, shocking and suicidal nature of his work, his charm fascinated and fascinate listeners. Some compositions have become permanent foundations for jazz and electronic arrangements by contemporary musicians. In general, The Doors cannot be removed from the history of rock and from the lives of millions of fans.

Jim Morrison (born December 8, 1943, Melbourne, Florida - died July 3, 1971, Paris) (Jim Morrison, full name James Douglas Morrison) is an American singer, poet, vocalist and leader of The Doors.

Jim Morrison's father is Admiral Steve Morrison. Jim's mother, Clara Morrison, also served in the Navy. Later, in an interview in 1967, Jim will say that they both died (the reason for this may have been his father's reaction to Jim's confession that he decided to create a rock band. The father's response to Jim's letter with this confession was laconic - "nonsense ").

I drink to write poetry.

Morrison Jim

In the life of the military, moving is frequent, and one day, when Jim was only four years old, something happened in the state of New Mexico that he later described as one of the most important events of his life: a truck with Indians overturned on the road, and their bloodied bodies lay on the road . “I discovered death for the first time (…) I think at that moment the souls of those dead Indians, maybe one or two of them, rushed around, writhing, and moved into my soul, I was like a sponge, readily absorbing them.”

Enrolling at UCLA, the Faculty of Cinematography, he leads a bohemian lifestyle, reads a lot, takes psychotropic substances, is fond of mysticism and the ideas of the beat generation. Jim's thesis causes an ambiguous reaction from teachers, and he leaves the university with a scandal.

Soon, with their friend, also a student at UCLA Ray Manzarek and joined by guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore, they form the Doors quartet, taking their name from the poem of the English visionary poet William Blake: "If the doors of perception were cleansed, / Every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite ”(Russian. If the doors of perception were clear / Everything would appear as it is - infinite). The group began to play in local taverns and their performances were frankly weak, partly due to the amateurishness of the musicians, partly from Jim Morrison's timidity: at first he was even embarrassed to face the audience and sang with his back to the audience. In addition, Jim often came to performances drunk. Luckily for the group, they had an army of female fans, and the angry club owner's "one last time" turned into calls from girls asking when they would see "that hairy guy" again.

Soon the group was noticed by producer Paul Rothschild from the newly opened Elektra label, which until then released only jazz artists, who ventured to offer the Doors a contract (the group entered the Elektra clip with such giants as Love). The band's first single, "Break On Through", hit the top ten on the US Billboard charts, and their follow-up, "Light My Fire," hit No. 1 on the charts, a hugely successful debut. Released in early 1967, the first album "The Doors" also took first place in the charts and marked the beginning of "dorsomania". one composition of the album - The End, conceived as an ordinary farewell song, gradually became more complicated, acquiring universal images.

Jim Morrison on this song a few years after the album's release:
"The End"... I really don't know what I was going to say. Every time I listen to this song, it seems different to me. At first it was a farewell, maybe with a girl, or maybe with childhood.

The use of hallucinogens, in particular LSD, had a direct impact on the work of Jim and the Doors: mysticism and shamanism became part of the stage act. “I am a Lizard king. I can do anything." - Jim said to himself in one of the songs ("I am the king of lizards. I can do anything"). The Doors have managed to become not only a musical phenomenon, but also a cultural phenomenon. The band's sound lacked bass, with emphasis on hypnotic organ parts and (to a lesser extent) original guitar parts. However, the popularity of The Doors was greatly facilitated by the unique charismatic personality and deep lyrics of their leader Jim Morrison. Morrison was an extremely erudite person, fond of Nietzsche's philosophy, the culture of the American Indians, the poetry of European symbolists, and much more. In our time in America, Jim Morrison is considered not only a recognized musician, but also an outstanding poet: he is sometimes put on a par with William Blake and Arthur Rimbaud. Morrison attracted the band's fans with his unusual behavior. He inspired the young rebels of that era, and the musician's mysterious death further mystified him in the eyes of his fans.