James Douglas Morrison was an American singer, songwriter and poet. He was the lead vocalist of the rock band The Doors. He died unexpectedly at the age of 27 in Paris, among conflicting witness and alleged witness reports. Morrison is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential frontmen in rock history.
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James Douglas Morrison was an American singer, songwriter and poet. He was the lead vocalist of the rock band The Doors. He died unexpectedly at the age of 27 in Paris, among conflicting witness and alleged witness reports. Morrison is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential frontmen in rock history. In 1993, Morrison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Doors. In 2008, he was ranked 47th in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Morrison was born in Melbourne, Florida, to Clara Virginia and Lt. George Stephen Morrison, a future rear admiral in the U. S. Navy. His father commanded U.S. naval forces during the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964, which provided the pretext for the Vietnam War in 1965. In 1947, when he was three to four years old, Morrison allegedly witnessed a car accident in the desert, during which a truck overturned and some Native Americans were lying injured at the side of the road. Morrison believed this incident to be the most formative event of his life, and made repeated references to it in his songs, poems, and interviews. His family does not recall this traffic incident happening in the way he told it. In the same book, his sister is quoted as saying, “He enjoyed telling that story and exaggerating it. He saw a dead Indian by the side road, and I don’t even know if that’s true” Morrison spent part of his childhood in northern Virginia. The family moved back to northern Virginia in 1959 and he graduated from George Washington High School in June 1961.
He then attended Alameda High School for his first semester of his freshman and sophomore year of his sophomore year. He continued at St. John’s Methodist School in Albuquerque, and then Longfellow School in Long Island, New York. In 1957, Morrison attended the San Diego High School Program Program. In 1961, Morrison went on to attend San Diego State University, where he majored in English. In 1962, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, San Diego. In 1964, Morrison married his longtime girlfriend, singer-songwriter and bandmate Ray Manzarek. The couple had three children. Morrison died in Paris in 1973, and the cause of Morrison’s death remains disputed. The band recorded two more albums after Morrison died, but his death severely affected the band’s fortunes, and they split up in 1973. Morrison developed an alcohol dependency during the 1960s, which at times affected his performances on stage. He recorded a total of six studio albums with the Doors, all of which sold well and received critical acclaim. He referred to this incident in the Doors’ song ‘Peace Frog’ on their 1970 album Morrison Hotel, as well as in the spoken word performances ‘Dawn’s Highway’ and ‘Ghost Song’ on the posthumous 1978 album An American Prayer. He also wrote or co-wrote many of the doors’ songs, including ‘The End’, ‘The Soft Parade’, and ‘Roadhouse Blues’
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