Jim Morrison

One of the most controversial rock stars ever. The Lizard King as pictured here in this portrait seems to grow even more famous with each passing year. His music, poetry, and wild life will continue to be listened to and read about for decades to come.


Florida historians have discovered a 40-year-old film clip of a clean-cut Jim Morrison that will give fans a different view of the Doors singer before his wilder days as a drug-using rock legend who drank hard and died young.

The 1964 black-and-white public relations film, shot at Florida State University (FSU,) shows a nerdy-looking Morrison, a rock bad boy who died in 1971 at 27 years old, acting the part of a young man whose university application has been rejected.

The 16-minute video has Morrison among wholesome scenes of college life, parades and football, a sharp contrast to his image as a long-haired, leather-clad rebel poet accused of exposing himself and simulating a sex act at a Miami concert in 1969.

"It''s incredible. He''s so clean-cut and soft-spoken," said Jody Norman, archives supervisor at the State Library and Archives of Florida, and a Doors fan.

The website ifilm.com, which features video of all kinds, posted the clip under the heading "Jim Morrison: College Dork."

In the film, the Florida native plays a dejected would-be university student who reads a rejection letter from a school and then earnestly questions a school administrator as to why he can''t go to college.

"But what happened? How come my parents and the state and university didn''t look ahead?" he said.

The Doors were one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s whose hits included Light My Fire and Riders on the Storm.

They broke up a few years after Morrison died.

He was found dead in the bath of his Paris apartment on July 3, 1971, apparently of a lethal mix of alcohol and drugs.

The French coroner''s verdict of death by natural causes and his hurried burial sparked cover-up theories.(10 March, 2005)

Настоящее имя: ДЖЕЙМС ДУГЛАС МОРРИССОН.
Дата рождения: 8 ДЕКАБРЯ 1943 года, МЕЛЬБУРН, штат
ФЛОРИДА.
Дата смерти: 3 ИЮЛЯ 1971 года, ПАРИЖ, улица БОТРЕЛИС (недалеко от площади БАСТИЛИИ).
Гороскоп: СТРЕЛЕЦ, рожденный в год КОЗЫ.
Решительный. Ценит независимость и свободу, своевольный. Действующий необдуманно, страстный. Обладает даром увлекать за собой. Необуздан, груб, это-тип романтика и бродяги, но, с другой стороны это тип ученого-мыслителя. Томится тоской
по недостижимому. Активен, нравится женщинам. Тяга к перемене мест. Редко доживает до старости, умирает не на своей постели. По гороскопу друидов: ГРАБ.
Образование: НЕЗАКОНЧЕННОЕ ВЫСШЕЕ ГУМАНИТАРНОЕ, ДИПЛОМ ПО КИНОТЕХНИКЕ В КАЛИФОРНИЙСКОЙ ШКОЛЕ КИНОИСКУССТВ.
Семейное положение: ЖЕНАТ с 1966 года на ПАМЕЛЕ КУРСОН, многочисленные любовные связи, в том числе с НИКО, немецкой певицей (пела в "Велвет Андеграунд") - в 1974 году записала диск "Конец", и с ГЛОРИЕЙ СТЭЙВЕРС, известной актрисой, которой он посвятил песню неприличного содержания "ГЛОРИЯ". Она недавно выступила консультантом документального фильма о ДЖИМЕ "Никто не выйдет отсюда живым".
Персональные диски:
Jim Morrison. "An American Prayer", 1978. "Woke up this morning and found myself dead" 1980 (с Дж. Хендриксом) Jim Morrison (Compilation) 1990.
Книги поэм и стихов: "The Lords and The New Creatures", "Wilderness", "In his own write", "Wilderness: The lost writings of Jim Morrison".
Фильмы: A feast of friends 1969 (by Jim), The Doors are open 1968, Live at the Hollywod''Bowl 1987 (Live), Woone here gets out alive 1989 (A tribute to Jim), The Doors (by Oliver Stone) 1991.
Кроме того, существует ряд биографических компиляций, таких, как "Dance on fire", "Interview", "Jim"."The Doors live in Europe".

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