(1943-1971)
a music legend, one of the most important representatives of cultural revolution of '68, poet, writer, lead singer of The Doors.
It 'was one of the main reference for generations of young people in the years of the Vietnam War, assassination of Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King.
damn hero and charismatic, rebellious angel, the Lizard King prophet of freedom.
His works have become almost a cult object and its fame comes from his knowledge of music, becomes a poet to read his sentences are reported in the diaries of young people all over the world for more than 40 years.
His early death in 1971 turned him into a myth, even today, every year thousands of young people make the pilgrimage on his tomb in the cemetery of Père Lanchaise in Paris.
In the first 60 years is a student in Los Angeles, he meets Ray Manzanek, born keyboardist and the Doors.
The name comes from a poem by William Blake and the Morrison said, "There are the known and the unknown and in between are doors."
The formation is completed with Robby Krieger on guitar and John Densmore on drums.
The success comes after the first self-titled album in 1967.
Their music is an original psychedelic blues rock, with Krieger's guitar duetting with keyboards Manzanek and creates the atmosphere on which stands the voice of Morrison.
The second album Strange Days have more success.
Morrison becomes an idol for millions of fans, his poetry, his endlessly repeated phrases, but also increases its dependency on alcohol and drugs.
His is a life of excess and living dangerously in this unfortunately also becomes an example to follow.
Exit Waiting for the Sun's third album. The fourth
The Soft Parade, Morrison never appreciated.
Finally the last two, beautiful and LAWoman Morrison Hotel, characterized by an almost blues sound.
Morrison felt a real poet, who could not bear to go see the Doors at their concerts only for all events, without listening carefully to his poems.
was beautiful, educated, loved women, always liked his stand against everything and everyone.
Only one woman in his life, that Pamela Courson known that in 65 will die of a drug overdose three years after the death of her drug overdose always Jim.
beat was attracted by the culture of the novels of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg's poems and Arthur Rimbaud.
wrote several collections of poems, the last published posthumously and electric storms, many considered his best work.
theorized his being cursed poet, his life without hesitation, immoderate consumption drugs and alcohol, creating a model that appealed to young people, many followed after him and many were killed.
spoke of death in his poems as if to look for: "I want to feel the taste, I hear, I want to smell it. Death comes once, right? I do not want to miss the appointment. Friend do not know. It could be the experience that gives you the missing piece of the puzzle. "
In 1971 he moved with Pamela in Paris with the intention to devote himself to his poetry.
died a few months later in only 27 years, Pamela will find it in the bathtub killed by an overdose.
Morrison died July 3, 1971 by then generating an infinite number of false reports as to how (or even the accuracy) of his death. The cause of his death are still unknown and in fact the case was filed too early, without any control.
When friends came to Paris, the coffin was already closed, but it could not only see his death certificate.
An autopsy was not done. The medical certificate
speak broadly of the natural death from cardiac arrest.
After his death the newspapers published articles in which he spoke of the "Curse of J": after the death of Robert Johnson, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison now (all at 27 years), we had hypothesized days are also John Lennon and Mick Jagger.
which unfortunately happen to Lennon a few years later.
urban legends are born who say it is still alive, having faked his death only to bow out, that the CIA killed him as Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix to delete characters too uncomfortable pushing young people to refuse the war in Vietnam. In 2007 his friend Sam Barrett said that Jim had died in a room after having snorted heroin and that he himself had Pamela staged with the fake death of natural causes.
His figure came nell'immagginario more collective character as a poet and as a singer, his figure has completely overshadowed that of a musical group that has never had great potential and that has entered history only for his lyrics are real poetry.
Today perhaps denotes a critical reading of the mannerisms and phrases for effect maybe a bit rhetorical, but we forget that we are talking about a completely different world and time.
not only fifty years have passed, it seems history of another planet, another dimension.
Everything happened in '68 in a time of rebellion and awareness of a whole generation emerging from a tunnel and suddenly saw the light, a whole generation that spoke of freedom, peace, civil rights.
A desire to rebel and break out that, unfortunately, will also live outside the rules by abusing alcohol and drugs.
A desire for change that will stop in front of overdose deaths and the reality of a society that wants to change, where the powerful have a vested interest that things will not change and do everything possible not to change it.
Some of his sentences, riportarte in graffiti and diaries from around the world: Sometimes the winner is simply a dreamer who never gave up.
After his blood, the best thing a man can give himself is a tear.
Some say that rain is bad, but do not know who can turn their heads held high, their faces covered with tears.
We are good at nothing but capable of anything.
would give my life to stay alive.
Give me a dream to live in, because the reality is killing me.
terrible and fascinating relationship with his death, Speg recounted an incident he experienced in 1947 traveling with his family
"The first time I discovered death. .. I, my mother, My father, my grandmother and my grandfather were traveling by car through the desert at dawn.
Navahos A truckload of Indians had either hit another car or something else: there were bloody Indians who were dying all the way around.
I was just a baby and so I had to stay in the car while my father and my grandfather came down to watch.
All I saw was a funny red paint and people lying around, but I knew what was happening, because I could feel the tremors of the people around me, and suddenly I realized they no longer knew what was happening to me.
That was the first time that I was afraid ... and I felt at that moment, that the souls of those Dead Indians, maybe one or two of them were running around, and entered my soul, and I was like a sponge, ready to sit there and absorb them. "
An artist and a few remained in popular culture, a name that everyone knows and even if they do not know his music, knows his poems, his life, his life against, his always be the character.
His music today is very dated, too much of the keyboards that use is no longer the public's tastes, but as I said now his fame comes from the music to come right in the history of costume and culture of this century.
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