Jim Morrison: When the Music’s Over (Part One)

In June, 1965, recent UCLA film school graduate Jim Morrison, jobless and homeless, was residing on a Venice Beach rooftop.  Within two years, the Doors song “Light My Fire,” was the #1 song in the US. Four years later, Morrison was found dead in a Paris bathtub, aged 27.

Jim Morrison’s father, Admiral “Steve” Morrison.
Jim Morrison with his father on the USS Bon Homme Richard
Joel Brodsky photo for first Elektra album release
Pamela Courson
Doors on the Ed Sullivan Show, singing “Light My Fire”
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