Jim morrison childhood biography
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Jim Morrison
(1943-1971)
Who Was Jim Morrison?
Jim Morrison was an American rock singer and songwriter. He studied film at UCLA, where he met the members of what would become the Doors, an iconic band that would have hits like "Light My Fire," "Hello, I Love You," "Touch Me" and "Riders on the Storm." Known for his drinking, drug use and outrageous stage behavior, in 1971 Morrison left the Doors to write poetry and moved to Paris, where he presumably died of heart failure at the age of 27.
Family Background
Singer and songwriter Jim Morrison was born James Douglas Morrison on December 8, 1943, in Melbourne, Florida. His mother, Clara Clarke Morrison, was a homemaker, and his father, George Stephen Morrison, was a naval aviator who rose to the rank of Rear Admiral. George was the commander of U.S. naval forces aboard the flagship USS Bon Homme Richard during the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident that helped ignite the Vietnam War. Admiral G
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A short biography on Jim Morrison, who was the lead singer of The Doors and a legend in his own time.
Jim Morrison was born on månad 8, 1943 in Melbourne, Florida to Rear Admiral George Morrison and Clara Morrison. Jim had two siblings, Anne Robin Morrison, born in 1947 and Andrew Lee Morrison, born in 1948. Because Mr. Morrison was an Admiral in the Navy, the family moved around a lot durning Jim’s childhood.
In 1947, when Jim Morrison was 4 years old, he witnessed a car accident involving American Indians. Morrison claimed that there were bodies scattered around, and a spirit of one jumped in to his soul. Jim talks about it on Dawn’s Highway on the American Prayer CD, which was taken from an interview…..He also sang of it in the song Peace Frog from the Morrison Hotel CD.
Jim Morrison was said to have an IQ of 149 and had a voracious appetite for reading. He studied Friedrich Nietzsche and Arthur Rimbaud as well as Jack Keruac and Allen G
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Jim Morrison was the lead singer of The Doors from 1965 to his untimely death in 1971, and is known for his unique voice and presence on the blues and psychedelic rock scene. He was also known as ‘The Lizard King’ and ‘Mr Mojo Risin’, an anagram of his name, and became iconic in his representation of youth counter-culture.
Family life and influences
Jim Morrison was born as James Douglas Morrison on December the 8th, 1943, to parents Clara Virginia and George Stephen in Melbourne, Florida. He had two younger siblings, a sister, Anne, and a brother, Andrew. In terms of the formative events of his early life, Jim often put much emphasis on an accident that he witnessed as a child, when a truck overturned and left a group of Native Americans bleeding at the side of the desert highway.
Many references to this particular event are made in songs produced by The Doors, namely ‘Peace Frog’ from the Morrison Hotel album in 1970 –
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