Jim Morrison

See all 295 pictures

Play Radio

Listen to Jim Morrison Radio, featuring artists like The Doors, Syd Barrett, Nigel Kennedy and Jaz Coleman, Jefferson Airplane and more…

• Search on Spotify

1,029,854 plays (137,675 listeners)
In your library (0 plays)

Shop now at Amazon | Send Jim Morrison Ringtones to Cell

Buy

• Download
• Amazon
• Send Ringtones to Cell
• Tonefuse Search

Add to my Library

James Douglas Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer, songwriter, poet, writer and filmmaker. He is best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors and is widely considered to be one of the most charismatic frontmen in rock music history. He was also the author of several books of poetry and the director of a documentary and short film. Although Morrison was known for his baritone vocals, many fans, scholars and journalists alike have referenced his theatrical stage persona, self-destructive lifestyle and his work as a poet. He was ranked number 47 on Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Singers of All Time”.

Morrison was born in Melbourne, Florida, to future Admiral George Stephen Morrison and Clara Clarke Morrison. Morrison had a sister, Anne Robin, who was born in 1947 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a brother, Andrew Lee Morrison, who was born in 1948 in Los Altos, California. He was of Scottish, Irish, and English ethnic heritage. He reportedly had an I.Q. of 149.

In 1947, Morrison, then four years old, allegedly witnessed a car accident in the desert, where a family of Native Americans were injured and possibly killed. He referred to this incident in a spoken word performance on the song “Dawn’s Highway” from the album An American Prayer, and again in the songs “Peace Frog” and “Ghost Song”.

Indians scattered on dawn’s highway bleeding
Ghosts crowd the young child’s fragile eggshell mind

Morrison believed the incident to be the most formative event in his life and made repeated references to it in the imagery in his songs, poems, and interviews. Interestingly, his family does not recall this incident happening in the way he told it.

Read more… Edit bio

Popular tags: classic rock, psychedelic, poetry, rock, spoken word  See more

Share this artist:

• Tweet
• Send

Top Albums

• Dionysus
  Jim Morrison

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $5.94
  • 7digital $9.99
  • iTunes $5.94
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search
• The Ultimate Collected Spoken Words 1967-1970
  Jim Morrison

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 $17.98
  • 7digital $9.99
  • iTunes Search
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search
• An American Prayer
  Jim Morrison

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 Search
  • 7digital Search
  • iTunes Search
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search
• The Lost Paris Tapes
  Jim Morrison

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 Search
  • 7digital Search
  • iTunes Search
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search

Top Tracks

• Last Week
• Last 6 months

1		Perceptual Notions			204
2		There's so much music			74
2		Discovery			74
4		Living in one country			73
5		Babylon			66
6		Ghost Song			63
6		Other members of The Doors (and their entourage in conversation backstage)			63
8		Resolve the past			61
9		A Feast of Friends			59
10		Black Polished Chrome			55
11		Awake			52
12		Dawn's Highway			49
13		Angels and Sailors			46
14		To Come of Age			45
15		An American Prayer			43

Buy all tracks at Amazon MP3

See more