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| − | '''Jim Morrison''' ([[birth|born]] [[1943]] [[December 8]]) was an [[United States of America|American]] [[rock music|rock]] singer/lyricist and cult figure since his death. His collections of [[poetry]] include An American Prayer (1970) and The Lords and The New Creatures (1971). Dead, a better selling poet than most live ones.
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| − | Morrison studied theatre arts at the University of California and formed a group which was in 1965 christened The Doors after Aldous Huxleyʼs book on mescaline, The Doors of Perception, which quoted William Blakeʼs poem.
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| − | If the doors of perception were cleansed<br/>
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| − | All things would appear infinite.
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| − | Their first album, “The Doors†(1967), mixed performances from Bertolt Brecht/Kurt Weilʼs “Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)†to Willie Dixonʼs “Back Door Manâ€.
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| − | Francis Ford Coppola used The Doorsʼ performance of “The End†in Vietnam War film, Apocalypse Now, and in 1991 director Oliver Stone made the film biography The Doors, starring Val Kilmer.
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| − | Oliver Stoneʼs movie “The Doors†depicted three true incidents.
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| − | Author Tom Robbins (Another Roadside Attraction) covered a Doors concert for Seattleʼs undergound “Helix,†describing them as “late patricidal, lunchtime in the Everglades, Black Forest blood sausage on electrified bread, Jean Genet up a totem pole, artists at the barricades, Edgar Allan Poe drowning in his birdbath, Massacre of the Innocents, tarantella of the satyrs, L.A. pagans drawing down the moon.â€
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| − | ==External link==
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| − | * [http://www.doors.com/ Doors]
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Revision as of 10:36, 10 February 2009
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