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Jim Morrison

November 2022

  • A woman stands at the grave of the Doors frontman Jim Morrison at the Pére-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

    Brief letters
    What happened to the bust from Jim Morrison’s grave?

  • Paris’s Père-Lachaise cemetery.

    ‘I don’t have those stone testicles’: curator reveals secrets and myths of Paris’s famous cemetery

December 2021

  • Robbie Krieger

    Doors guitarist Robby Krieger: ‘The music will outlast the crazy Jim stuff’

    In the musician’s new memoir, he aims to tell the true, uncensored story of one of the greatest bands of all time while dispelling some long-running myths

July 2021

  • Tributes adorn the grave of Doors frontman Jim Morrison at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris

    ‘Weird and wonderful’ fans mourn Jim Morrison in Paris, 50 years on

    The Doors frontman died on 3 July 1971, but to the pilgrims by his grave, his charisma remains undimmed

June 2021

  • Jim Morrison

    Ranked
    The Doors’ greatest songs – ranked!

    Ahead of the 50th anniversary of singer Jim Morrison’s death, we rank the LA band’s best tracks, from the summer of love anthem Light My Fire to the apocalyptic The End

January 2020

  • John Densmore … ‘I hated his self-destruction …’

    Doors drummer John Densmore: ‘It took me years to forgive Jim Morrison’

    When he was at the centre of the US counterculture, he lived in terror of his bandmate. Yet after the singer’s death, he fought ferociously to protect his legacy. But, he says, he still regrets not calling out Morrison on his abusive relationships with women

February 2018

  • ‘We smoked a load of hash and listened to Sgt Pepper’ … Jim Morrison of the Doors in 1967.

    My best shot
    Bobby Klein's best photograph: Jim Morrison has a beer for breakfast

    ‘Lucky U was Jim’s favourite place to have breakfast. He ordered a beer and a chilli soup to line his stomach. He could sink six beers in an hour’

July 2017

  • Lynn Castle

    Lynn Castle: the secret singer-songwriter who used to cut Jim Morrison's hair

    She spent the 60s working as a hairdresser to the stars, while hiding in a closet to write music. Now, 50 years on, her debut album is finally being released

May 2016

  • Father John Misty Perform At O2 Academy In Leeds<br>LEEDS, ENGLAND - MAY 11: Father John Misty performs on stage at O2 Academy Leeds on May 11, 2016 in Leeds, England.  (Photo by Andrew Benge/Redferns)

    Father John Misty review – Jim Morrison’s head on Jarvis Cocker’s body

    The crazed Casanova doesn’t so much own the stage as lease the land for miles around in a pelvis-thrusting, guitar hurling show

August 2014

  • DC Luigi Lucente

    Jim Morrison: Kaleidoscope

  • Jim Morrison

    Marianne Faithfull: 'My boyfriend killed Jim Morrison'

June 2011

  • Jim Morrison, Frankfurt, September 1968

    A history of rock music
    Jim Morrison exposes himself on stage

    1 March 1969: Number 14 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of rock music

December 2010

  • Michael Tomasky's blog
    Tomasky Talk: The Obama tax deal, the Start treaty and Jim Morrison's pardon

  • Jim Morrison

    Jim Morrison pardoned by Florida for his night of infamy, 41 years on

November 2010

  • jim morrison the doors

    Jonathan Jones on art
    Pure poetry: why Jim Morrison's way with words still lights my fire

    Jonathan Jones: The Doors' poet-prophet rock idol drew unlikely inspiration from the literary likes of William Blake and Bertolt Brecht
  • Jim Morrison of the Doors

    Doors open for Jim Morrison posthumous pardon

    Florida governor submits Morrison as candidate for posthumous pardon, 41 years after the singer was arrested for indecent exposure
  • Jim Morrison

    Jim Morrison may win pardon for indecent exposure, 41 years on

    The outgoing governor of Florida has suggested the Doors singer may receive a posthumous let-off for exposing himself on stage in 1969

January 2007

  • Climate change message in Morrison song

  • Morrison climate warning strikes global note

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