James Douglas Morrison, charismatic singer and lyricist
of The Doors outrageous, was born December 8, 1943 in Melbourne (Florida) to a
military father and a housewife mother. After an eventful early youth, he
spent with his brother, his sister and his mother, multiple removals due to
displacement as the army imposed on his father, the Elvis Presley fan, lover of
literature and poetry, eventually settled in Los Angeles (California), where he
studied film at the famous UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) in the
first half of the 1960s. It was at this time that he finally cut ties with
the Morrison family, more than he had received strict education having probably
predisposed to leave them. We can also surmise that Jim Morrison never saw
his family in order to preserve it, because of the success he experienced soon
after breaking with his band The Doors.Founded in 1965 with
Ray Manzarek (organ, bass) - another film
student, several years his senior, met at UCLA - small training also consisted
of Robbie Krieger (guitar) and
John densmore . (drums) Music The
Doors, mix of jazz, folk, pop, blues and other influences from the eclecticism
of its members, has often been called intellectual, probably because of the
variety of
styles she brewed, but also
texts because of its singer, Jim Morrison, whose clear and deep voice, hoarse
and deep, poetic litanies surreal rocked a growing audience that has never
diminished the generation gap. The public image of Jim Morrison is
primarily that of a handsome young man with dark curls, blue staring into
space, wearing a black leather pants, and who gave a show in every sense of the
word, the scene as the city. The scandals have marred her short life:
numerous arrests for indecent exposure, insulting officials and public
drunkenness in particular.Many mistresses and lovers after some shared his bed,
and the most it would have passed various drugs in the body. But Morrison
himself, we do not finally know much despite numerous articles and biographies
have been devoted. Danny Sugerman,
Ray Manzarek , more recently, with a touch
more highly touted Stephen Davis and other biographers have focused on the
case, where it appears that Jim Morrison was a being of great kindness often
overshadowed by its hallucinatory tendencies (which would not come only drugs
and alcohol he ingested as known quantity) and his ego, sometimes
overdeveloped, sometimes uncertain. Colorful character who rubbed
shoulders with the big names of the era - including
Jimi Hendrix and
Janis Joplin , with whom he shares the
characteristic as it is known to be dead at age 27 - Morrison has collected mistresses
while remaining faithful to his way to death his only official fiancée, the
lovely redhead
Pamela Courson . It also hid behind
her pretty face covered with freckles serious penchant for drugs. Only be
blameless in the life of Morrison, his dog, Sage, a kind of black labrador. But
Morrison has also shown an avid recognition may eventually assumed wrong. His
erotic and charismatic image, which has earned him some success, has also led
to ugly to show the public that he was capable of something else: writing,
filming. There is only one way to get an idea of who was really Jim
Morrison read his poems, listen to the words of his songs, watch videos that
show live or long and short films that he or friends at the time were made,
what he read and movies and music that made him happy or creative. His
fascination with the American Indians and the desert is certainly eloquent, as
well as his love of literature. HWY. An American Pastoral, the last
film directed by Morrison is emblematic of his passions and his special magic. And
it is these aspects of the character, apart from the image of rebel rebellious
years away in the army, politicians, the American family model in 1960,
remained in the memories and deeply influenced artists to it succeeded. The
shadow of Morrison flat indeed in the most interesting works of yesterday and
today, evidenced by such films as Easy Rider (1969) by
Peter founded and
Dennis Hopper , Fear and Loathing in Las
Vegas (1994 ) by Terry Gilliam and The Big Lebowski (1998), the Cohen brothers,
which together sum up then, the mindset, and make, consciously or not, a
tribute to the artist and his era. The same literature, Morrison, himself
an amateur Aldous Huxley,
Oscar Wilde ,
William Blake and many other mythical
figures of literature, whose style is reminiscent of another American poet,
Walt Whitman has inspired many texts. You
could see him in such good news of
Stephen King : Rockn 'Roll Heaven,
alongside yet Hendrix and Joplin, and a host of dead musicians of the sixties. He
also inspired his lyrical
Viggo Mortensen and his ghost hovers over
many productions and groups. His death, the circumstances of which remain
unclear today, has certainly helped to anchor in the collective imagination of
the legend that was called, half-serious, half-ironic, the Lizard King. The
wildest rumors circulated about it, from the overdose heart attack through
murder and murder sponsored by the CIA. Indeed, it was sometimes claimed
that
Jimi Hendrix , Jim Morrison,
Janis Joplin and other figures of the
time, but today, died in the prime of life, had been deemed troublesome by the
Government U.S.. This assumption seems fairly likely because any and all
revolutionary libertarian crowd entertainer he was, we all know that before Jim
Morrison (like any other controversial star of yesterday and today - is also
believed to waves generated by Marilyn Manson) was an artist, and artists
rarely come to lead nations. At 27, worn, having lived in a few years what
others take a lifetime experience, Jim Morrison is dead at Paris, as
Oscar Wildeand his grave as that of the latter
is located in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise where it is for more than thirty
years the subject of a cult. And while some visit this mysterious place,
others fantasize about ghost singer of The Doors, up to claim it is living in
secret and lead a quiet life, a bit like those who still believe have Cross
Elvis Presley , alive too, a cheeseburger
in hand. Still, Jim Morrison left us in the company of a beautiful Doors
directory as well as exciting and surreal poetry.
