Lead singer for the rock group the Doors, Jim Morrison (1943-1971) personified the mind-bending, uninhibited lifestyle of the 1960s, in his brief but brilliant career. Like few bands other than the Beatles, the influence of the Doors has eclipsed the...

James Morrison is the latest soldier to make landfall in the current British invasion of retro soul singers. He may share a moniker with a '60s acid king, look a bit like Chris Martin of Coldplay, and have been unfairly lumped with last year's...

In January 1969, Patricia Kennealy met Jim Morrison, lead singer for the Doors. The occasion was an interview: Kennealy was hip editor of Jazz & Pop magazine, and the Lizard King was hot, sexy and still very much alive. As the rocker and the...

Gov. Charlie Crist is being asked to pardon the late Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, 38 years after he was convicted of exposing himself during a Miami concert.Dave Diamond, a cable TV producer from Dayton, Ohio, wrote to Crist last month asking for...

The official story goes like this: On the last night of Jim Morrison's life, the rocker went to a movie in Paris, listened to records, fell ill and died of heart failure in his bathtub at the age of 27. But rumors have always swirled...

Williams: On interpreting "The End," I considered for the first time the other day, that the lines "This is the end my only friend," and particularly the lines, "It hurts to set you free but you'll never bother me …" at that point, when I heard that, it occured to me that the song was about a murder, and not just a guy leaving a girl. I didn't decide that, but the possibility opened that the whole thing was the murderer's mind and ah, the...

The Doors' popularity is currently at its highest level since Jim Morrison's demise in July, 1971…. Unfortunately, the fascination with Morrison's self-destruction seems to have overtaken any real passion about the group's music…. It is the music, however, that made the Doors fascinating, not Morrison's leather clothes or petulant eroticism. The Doors were a pioneering West Coast outfit who succeeded in a variety of musical areas, including jazz, blues, pop a...

What Jim Morrison wanted more than anything—more than fame, more than wealth, more than the women's wet submission that fame brought with it—was to be taken seriously as a poet. But he was too immature. Too unfinished to sense how little he knew about the job of turning a vision into meaningful words and rhythms. The Doors' most ambitious work was often their worst. Trying to make of rock & roll something it could never, should never, be, Morrison seemed a pompous fool rather...