Jim Morrison BBC Icon Of The Century Xmas 1999.

It's interesting that in a day and age that has polls and awards for just about everything how relevant The Doors are.
The Channel 4 Poll was massive and had half a million people involved in the vote.
The BBC Icon Poll was promoted by both BBC1 and BBC2, BBC radio including the flagship Radio 1. It featured in Radio Times which is the BBC magazine and also the national press. Voting if I recall correctly was via phone and post and lasted for a large slice of 1999. I don;t know how many votes were cast but like Ch 4's poll it was a major event.
I was frankly gobsmacked when the result for the Musical Icon was announced as I thought Lennon was a certainty (he came 3rd) with possibly Elvis as an outside bet as he was very popular here.
For Jim to win was pretty seismic and considering during the 70s I did not even know a Doors fan in my area outside of myself.
It was annoying that no follow up programmes were made which I am sure would have been the case if a Beatle had won.
Taken in conjunction with the Ch4 Poll it shows how far The Doors have become ingrained in the musical psyche of generation after generation. No mean feat for a band that was dead on it's feet by the end of 1970. To recover with an album like LAW and then slowly work it's way into the very fabric of the musical population shows that something special was at work.
Of course the Morrison Myth was a big part of this but the music sounds as fresh and relevant today as it did in 1971 when Jim died. For me this is one of the most remarkable feats in Doors History as when the band existed barely anybody in the UK gave a crap about Morrison or The Doors.
Remarkable.

Ch4 Music Of The Millennium 1999