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American singer-songwriter and lead vocalist of The Doors, known for his poetic lyrics and charismatic stage presence.

Mentions Over Time

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Bonus Episode: The Count Who Killed Jim Morrison?

Anyhow, following this line of thinking, following this little bit of research I was doing this morning, if you were to do this, it would inevitably bring you to a fascinating character from the late 1960s and early 70s jet set, a friend not of Jim Morrison's, but of his girlfriend Pam's, and also a friend of Graham Parsons, and a friend of Janis Joplin, and of Keith Richards, and Marianne Faithfull, and Miss Mercy from the GTOs, and a whole lot of other famous rock stars who regularly used heroin.

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Bonus Episode: The Count Who Killed Jim Morrison?

His official cause of death, heart failure, the sort of understood to be cause of death for Jim Morrison, heroin overdose.

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Bonus Episode: The Count Who Killed Jim Morrison?

Jim Morrison could, of course, just tried heroin and died, of course.

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Bonus Episode: The Count Who Killed Jim Morrison?

It doesn't prove that Jim Morrison, I guess, didn't die from heroin, that he didn't take heroin, that he didn't die in a Paris bathtub.

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Bonus Episode: The Count Who Killed Jim Morrison?

Because here's the thing, Jim Morrison didn't use heroin or at least many of his friends recounted over the years about how Jim hated the drug and that he actively spoke out against using heroin in the company of his friends and that he hated the fact that his girlfriend, Pamela Corson, AKA Pamela Morrison, she wasn't really his wife, common law wife, sometimes went by Pamela Corson, sometimes by Pamela Morrison.

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Bonus Episode: The Count Who Killed Jim Morrison?

Maybe I just bought the line of bullshit that had been fed to me, to all of us anyways, until now, that Jim Morrison died from a heroin overdose.

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Bonus Episode: The Count Who Killed Jim Morrison?

And they're all used as fodder for the conspiracy theorists who claim that Jim Morrison faked his own death, that the heroin overdose never happened, and that Jim pretended to off himself so that he could, or pretended to die, I should say, so that he could live in peace.