Jim Morrison

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The Doors
How a simple break-up song evolved into The Doors' darkest, weirdest and most disturbing freak-out

By Paul Brannigan Published

How The End began, then went weird

Bands & Artists
The Doors posing for a photograph in 1968
The story of The Doors’ Waiting For The Sun, the album that set Jim Morrison on the path to destruction

By Rob Hughes Published

Three albums in and Jim Morrison was heading down a dark path

Bands & Artists
The bust of Jim Morrison in Paris, and Jim Morrison
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

Bands & Artists
The Doors’ Jim Morrison
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

Biographies
The Doors posing for a photograph under a pier in 1969
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

Albums
Jim Morrison of The Doors onstage in 1968
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

Biographies
Alice Cooper and Jim Morrison
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

Interviews
Val Kilmer on Oliver Stone’s The Doors movie
“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

Interviews
The Doors
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

Tracks & Singles
Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison
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

Bands & Artists
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