1- Jim Morrison Formed the Doors in 1965 with keyboardist Ray Manzarek, who also attended UCLA.
2- Jim Morrison first met his father at the age of 2.
3- Jim owned a ’67 Mustang
4- Jim made 2 films in college, ‘First Love’, and ‘Obscura’.
5- Jim Morrison buried in Paris, and his grave has become a popular tourist site for visitors to the city.
6- Jim was notoriously shy on stage and performed a lot of their early sets with his back to the audience.
7- JimMorrison was ranked number 22 on Classic Rock magazine’s “50 Greatest Singers In Rock”
8- Jim Morrison Morrison famously spent most of his adult life in a relationship with Pamela Courson
9- Jim Morrison wrote a poem called The Celebration of the Lizard that first appeared on the sleeve of Waiting For The Sun.
10- In 1993, Morrison, as a member of the Doors, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
11- Jim Morrison banned (along with the rest of the Doors) from The Ed Sullivan Show after failing to censor the lyrics to “Light My Fire” during the band’s first appearance on the program.
12 -Jim Morrison loved to go fishing
13- JimMorrison was ranked #47 on Rolling Stone’s list of the “100 Greatest Singers of All Time”
14- Jim Morrison’s favorite singer was Frank Sinatra
15- Jim Morrison had really bad asthma and it may have even caused his death! He took a drug called Marax by inhaler for his asthma, which the FDA later banned because it turned out that it could cause death when taken in conjunction with alcohol.
16- Jim Morrison had an IQ of 146
17- Jim Morrison had a dog called Thor
18- His ancestors were Scottish, Irish, and English.
19- Morrison had three dogs, named Sage, Stoner and Thor. His dog named Sage outlived both Morrison and his long-term girlfriend.
20- Patti Smith was a great admirer of Jim Morrison
“Jim Morrison probably got the closest to being an artist within rock and roll, I think. His death made me sadder than anyone’s. He was a really great poet.” – Patti Smith
21- Jim had completed Bachelor’s Degree in Theatre Arts Department of UCLA
22- Jim’s band’s title was derived from the title of the book written by Aldous Huxley on the effects of drugs on human perception, ‘The Doors of Heaven and Hell’.
23- Jim Morrison had a lot of nicknames, most notably “Mr. Mojo Risin’,” which is an anagram for Jim Morrison and also the bridge of “LA Woman.” People also called him The Lizard King, which was from a poem he wrote called “The Celebration of the Lizard.” In the poem he says, “I am the lizard king, I can do anything.”
24- Jim believed that one of the souls of the dying Indians had entered his body
25- While in college at UCLA, Morrison liked to sketch bizarre, morbid and often macabre figures. He would often draw sketches depicting sexuality, violence, and even sometimes pedophilia
26- Jim was obsessed with reptiles and called himself the Lizard King
27- One of the wildest Jim Morrison facts is that he fought with Janis Joplin.
It happened at a party in 1967 in L.A that Jim and Janis attended. Apparently, Jim was teasing her and Joplin threw a bottle at his face.
28- Ray Manzarek, who co-founded the Doors with him, said Morrison “embodied hippie counterculture rebellion.
29- Jim Morrison had a younger sister, Anne Robin, who was born in 1947 in Albuquerque, New Mexico
30- Jim’s father was an Admiral
31- Jim Morrison Liked Blues More Than Rock and Roll
32- The single “Light My Fire” spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in July/August 1967
33- Jim Morrison is part of the 27 club. A club of eminent and influential musicians (and artists or actors) who died at the age of 27
34- Jim Morrison is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris
35- Iggy and the Stooges are said to have formed after lead singer Iggy Pop was inspired by Morrison while attending a Doors concert in Ann Arbor, Michigan
36- On 3rd July 1971, Jim was found dead in his bath tub by Pamela Courson.
37- Morrison has the “honor” of being the first musician ever arrested on stage, which happened in 1967. He was arrested for saying too many obscenities was charged with indecency, but he was later released.
38- Jim Morrison on Led Zeppelin
“Tell the truth I don’t listen to rock and roll so I’ve never heard them. Normally I listen to classical music, or Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley.”
39- In June 2013, a fossil analysis discovered a large lizard in Myanmar. The extinct reptile was given the moniker Barbaturex morrisoni in honor of Morrison. “This is a king lizard, and he was the lizard king, so it just fit,” said Jason Head, a paleontologist at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
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