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

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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’s habitual room in the now closed Alta Cienega Motel
Room 32 and partial interior covered by subsequent guest graffiti
Cover from Doors’ album Morrison Hotel, this downtown LA abandoned location was recently destroyed by fire set by transients.
Miami mug shot taken after obscenity arrest in 1970
Plaque marking Jim’s spot at the bar of Barney’s Beanery
Initial bust on Morrison’s grave at Pere Lachaise cemetery
Morrison’s grave today.

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