Jim Morrison
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Jim Morrison's stolen gravestone bust recovered by police after nearly four decades
By Fraser Lewry published
The bust was installed to mark the 10th anniversary of The Doors' frontman's death in 1971

How The Doors’ Jim Morrison went from from drunken teen rebel to leather-clad 60s rock god
By Joe Daly published
Drunkenness, arrests, ambition – Jim Morrison’s wayward childhood paved the way for the future

How The Doors snatched victory from the jaws of chaos to make the classic Morrison Hotel album
By Mick Wall published
By 1970, Jim Morrison was in an alcoholic spiral and facing jail time – but The Doors still managed to make one of their greatest albums in Morrison Hotel

Jim Morrison: the man behind the myth by the people who knew him
By Geoff Barton published
Shaman? Lizard King? Visionary? This was the real Jim Morrison, according to his Doors bandmates

There are certain people you meet and you just know they won’t be around forever. Jim Morrison was one of those people. He could have died 100 times": Alice Cooper on The Doors' Jim Morrison
By Alice Cooper published
"He was a risk taker, fearless": Alice Cooper shares his memories of The Doors frontman Jim Morrison

“We wanted to challenge all the ideas. We had no rules, no limits, no laws”: why Oliver Stone’s The Doors is the most influential rock biopic ever made
By Joe Daly published
Oliver Stone’s The Doors divided the critics – and the surviving band members. But it made Jim Morrison a star all over again and laid down the template for the modern rock biopic

The 20 best songs by The Doors
By Max Bell published
Over the course of just five years, The Doors changed the course of rock forever. These are their 20 best songs

What happened at Jimi Hendrix's chaotic jam with Jim Morrison
By Johnny Black published
When some of the most talented stars of the era met in a small New York club, the on-stage jamming soon turned into a full-on, bottle-breaking brawl between Jimi, Jim and Janis
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