Discography
17 releases – 6 under his own name, 9 in other groups and 3 credits on others' music Edit
- Show everything (17)
- Released as Jim Morrison (6)
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In other groups (9)
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Credits on others' music (3)
- Tracks on others' music (7)
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In the News
( 2 stories between 19th November 2010 and 27th May 2011 )Stranger Than Fiction Friday: Jim Morrison’s Cuddly Ghost
May, 27 2011
A North Virginia woman has claimed that the ghost of Jim Morrison, poet and iconic front man for The Doors, lives in her house and regularly crawls into bed with her.
Rhonda Baron now inhabits the house on 28th Street in Arlington where Morrison also lived as a child. Baron recently told Washington D.C. television station WUSA9 TV, "I was lying in bed. The spirit lay down on the bed beside me on his back, and turned and looked at me. It was like a haze, you could look through it."
Baron surmised that the Lizard King’s ghost haunted her bedroom because he was an unhappy soul seeking to find a place he was happy as a child.
Morrison died in 1971 at age 27 of a heart attack. His Paris death, reportedly caused by a drug overdose, remains the stuff of urban myth; like Elvis, his fans remain skeptical of his demise. Morrison would be 68 today, so if you see this guy, please let someone know.
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Morrison In Line For Posthumous Pardon
Nov, 19 2010
Florida Governor Charlie Crist has told Rolling Stone he intends to posthumously pardon The Doors’ front man, Jim Morrison, for his alleged indecent exposure during the band’s 1969 performance in Miami.
Morrison was arrested after the show and charged with exhibiting “lewd and lascivious behavior by exposing his private parts and by simulating masturbation and oral copulation” onstage, but over the years the legitimacy of the charge has been shown to be dubious.
"After reviewing the case and getting briefed on it, more and more it seems like a real injustice was done," said Crist. The incident caused the cancellation of several subsequent Doors’ shows and garnered bad publicity for a band already bathed in dark overtones.
Crist admits the pardon is largely a symbolic gesture. "It's the symbolism of doing what's right... It seemed to me that it would be a tragedy to have this be the lasting legacy of [Morrison’s] life. I just wanted to give an opportunity for forgiveness... It's very important to prosecute the guilty, but it may even be more important to exonerate the innocent," he explained.
The pardon will go through after a formal clemency meeting on December 9th, but Crist does not think it will meet any opposition.
