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Jim Morrison (2012)
by Dominica Vaughan BA (Hons) Fine Art
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Jim Morrison (born 8 December 1943 - 3 July1971) was an American singer, songwriter and poet best remembered as the lead singer of The Doors. Due to his songwriting, baritone voice, wild personality and performances, he is regarded by critics and fans as one of the most iconic and influential frontmen in rock music history and due to the dramatic circumstances surrounding his life and death, in the latter part of 20th century he was one of popular culture's most rebellious and oft-displayed icons, representing the generation gap and youth counterculture. He was also well known for improvising spoken word poetry passages while the band played live. Morrison was ranked number 47 on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time"and number 22 on Classic Rock Magazine's "50 Greatest Singers In Rock".Ray Manzarek said that Morrison "embodied hippie counterculture rebellion..."Morrison sometimes referred to himself using other monikers, such as "Lizard King" and "King of Orgasmic Rock". Morrison developed an alcohol dependency. He died at the age of 27 in Paris, allegedly of a heroin overdose. No autopsy was performed and the exact cause of Morrison's death is still disputed. In July 2007, Sam Bernett, a former manager of the Rock 'n' Roll Circus nightclub, released a book in French entitled The End: Jim Morrison. In it Bernett alleges that instead of dying of heart failure in his bath (the official police version of his death), Morrison overdosed on heroin on a toilet seat in the nightclub. He claims that Morrison came to the club to buy heroin for his long-term companion Pamela Courson, used some himself and died in the club toilet, his body was then moved back to his rue Beautreillis apartment in Le Marais district of Paris, dumped into the bathtub by the two drug dealers from whom Morrison had purchased the heroin. Bernett says those who saw Morrison that night were sworn to secrecy in order to prevent a scandal for the famous club and that some of the witnesses immediately left the country. In the 1 August 2014 issue of Mojo Magazine, Marianne Faithfull says that her drug-dealer boyfriend at the time, Jean de Breiteuil, killed Morrison. "Count" Breiteuil was also dating Pamela Courson at this time and providing her with heroin. In the interview Faithfull says, "I could intuitively feel trouble. I thought, I'll take a few Tuinal and I won't be there. He went to see Jim Morrison and killed him. I mean I'm sure it was an accident. Poor bastard. The smack was too strong? Yeah. And he died. And I didn't know anything about this. Anyway, everybody connected to the death of this poor guy is dead now. Except me." Jim Morrison's grave is located at Père Lachaise cemetery in eastern Paris.