Jim Morrison James Douglas Morrison's full name was born on December 8, 1943 in Melbourne, Florida. His father was a senior officer in the United States Navy and the Morrison family often followed him on his various assignments. Young Jim lived in an authoritarian family environment and this may explain the peculiar rebelliousness he displayed on stage. When he began to become known he falsely claimed that both his parents were dead.
Jim Morrisyn graduated from St. Petersburg College and attended a year of classes at Florida State University. In 1964 he continued his studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), taking courses in film and theater. At the same time he became interested in the poetry of William Blake and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, and began writing his own poems and experimenting with drugs, particularly LSD.
In 1965, together with fellow student Ray Manzarek, who played in local blues bands, they decided to form a band. They named it The Doors after English author Aldous Huxley's book The Doors of Perception. The band was completed with Robbie Krieger (guitar) and John Densmore (drums). An unusual line-up, without bass, the lack of which was made up for by Manzarek's kickboards.
Morrison was quite shy on stage at first. When singing he avoided looking the audience in the face and often turned his back out of shyness. He quickly came out of his shell, however. He began throwing the microphone around and using it as a phallic symbol. As the Doors exploded onto the music scene with their first album in 1967, he began to behave bizarrely, threatening the stability of the band. In a wild drunken stupor, he destroyed his musical equipment and nearly caused the Doors to break up.
On stage, he began to challenge America's conservative mores with a steady barrage of profanity, of which various imitations of the sex act stood out. The theatricality of his stage presence may have caused the delirium of his loyal followers, but at the same time he was targeted by the authorities and the police. Several times he was arrested after a concert for violating public morals, while some other concerts were banned for public order reasons. On 20 September 1970 he was sentenced to six months' hard labour for insulting the audience for showing his genitals during a Doors concert in Miami in the spring of 1969.
In 1971 he decided to get rid of the climate against him that had developed in the United States and, together with his partner Pamela Curzon (1946-1974), moved to Paris to devote himself to poetry. A year before, his poetry collection The Lord and Creatures had been published.
However, on 3 July 1971 he was found dead in the bathroom of his apartment at the age of 27. The official version of his death was a heart attack. He was buried in the "poets' corner" of the famous Parisian cemetery "Per Lachaise", near Balzac, Molière and Oscar Wilde.
Jim Morrison, unlike other psychedelic music artists who tended towards mysticism, saw the expansion of consciousness as a way to penetrate the dark region of the unconscious and man's unspoken desires. His lyrics are dominated by the lust of violence, sex, alcohol, drugs, self-destruction and everything forbidden by conservative America, and he tried to apply them to his personal life as best he could.
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