Jim Morrison

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On this day in 1971, Jim Morrison of The Doors died in Paris at age 27.



How did he die? Hard to say.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame says heart attack --

...They achieved popular success and critical acclaim for their 1967 debut, The Doors (which included their eleven-minute epic “The End” and “Light My Fire,” a Number One hit at the height of the Summer of Love), and all the other albums that followed. As the Doors’ career wore on, however, Morrison’s problems with drugs and alcohol resulted in increasingly unpredictable behavior, culminating in an alleged incident of exposure onstage at a March 1969 concert in Miami. The Doors rebounded from this adversity with one of their finest albums, L.A. Woman, which contained the Top Forty hits “Love Her Madly” and “Riders On the Storm.” After its release, Morrison took a leave of absence from the Doors and moved to Paris, where he died of a heart attack on July 3, 1971.”

others say drugs.

Whatever, quite a talent.

Here's a live version of "L.A. Woman" --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys24DtB9XYg