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JON FRIEDMAN'S MEDIA WEB
July 1, 2011, 12:01 a.m. EDT
Jim Morrison, Dead 40 years, Remembered
Commentary: What would the Lizard King be doing if he’d lived?
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Jim Morrison of the Doors died 40 years ago, on July 3, 1971. He was found dead at the age of 27 in a bathtub in Paris. The mystery that surrounded his death only served to increase the public’s fascination in him, to this day.
How do I know this nugget? Simple. Journalists tend to remember these kinds of factoids. And ever since President Ronald Reagan commemorated the 40th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in 1984, 40 has been the new 50 for the media — and a milestone that is worth chronicling for the masses.
Morrison sang some of the most enduring songs in rock and roll history, such as “Light My Fire,” “LA Woman” and “Break on Through,” which still can be heard today on oldies stations. The Doors were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Jim Morrison of the Doors died 40 years ago, on July 3, 1971. He was found dead at the age of 27 in a bathtub in Paris. The mystery that surrounded his death only served to increase the public’s fascination in him, to this day.
How do I know this nugget? Simple. Journalists tend to remember these kinds of factoids. And ever since President Ronald Reagan commemorated the 40th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in 1984, 40 has been the new 50 for the media — and a milestone that is worth chronicling for the masses.
Morrison sang some of the most enduring songs in rock and roll history, such as “Light My Fire,” “LA Woman” and “Break on Through,” which still can be heard today on oldies stations. The Doors were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
And what might the self-proclaimed Lizard King — “I am the Lizard King/I can do anything,” he sang in one Doors song — likely be doing today?
In five guesses, he would be::
1) Tweeting, like crazy: Morrison would find Twitter irresistible to communicate his political and artistic slogans;
2) Acting cranky. If Morrison felt out of place during the Sixties, imagine how much he would loathe such institutions as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the tea-party movement;
3) Writing poetry, exclusively: He’d have long since retired from rock and roll, moving away from it after disco became fashionable;
4) Living in seclusion, still in Paris: Morrison would have felt disconnected from society during the Reagan years. Morrison never struck me as much of a “Morning-in-America” kind of a guy;
5) Disowning his Doors legacy: Couldn’t you hear Morrison bellowing at anybody who would listen to him. “I sang rock and roll when I was a kid. But look-it: I’m a serious poet now. OK?”
MEDIA WEB QUESTION OF THE DAY: What do you think Jim Morrison might be doing today?
www.marketwatch.com/story/jim-morrison-dead-40-years-remembered-2011-07-01
Market Watch
JON FRIEDMAN'S MEDIA WEB
July 1, 2011, 12:01 a.m. EDT
Jim Morrison, Dead 40 years, Remembered
Commentary: What would the Lizard King be doing if he’d lived?
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Jim Morrison of the Doors died 40 years ago, on July 3, 1971. He was found dead at the age of 27 in a bathtub in Paris. The mystery that surrounded his death only served to increase the public’s fascination in him, to this day.
How do I know this nugget? Simple. Journalists tend to remember these kinds of factoids. And ever since President Ronald Reagan commemorated the 40th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in 1984, 40 has been the new 50 for the media — and a milestone that is worth chronicling for the masses.
Morrison sang some of the most enduring songs in rock and roll history, such as “Light My Fire,” “LA Woman” and “Break on Through,” which still can be heard today on oldies stations. The Doors were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Jim Morrison of the Doors died 40 years ago, on July 3, 1971. He was found dead at the age of 27 in a bathtub in Paris. The mystery that surrounded his death only served to increase the public’s fascination in him, to this day.
How do I know this nugget? Simple. Journalists tend to remember these kinds of factoids. And ever since President Ronald Reagan commemorated the 40th anniversary of the D-Day invasion in 1984, 40 has been the new 50 for the media — and a milestone that is worth chronicling for the masses.
Morrison sang some of the most enduring songs in rock and roll history, such as “Light My Fire,” “LA Woman” and “Break on Through,” which still can be heard today on oldies stations. The Doors were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
And what might the self-proclaimed Lizard King — “I am the Lizard King/I can do anything,” he sang in one Doors song — likely be doing today?
In five guesses, he would be::
1) Tweeting, like crazy: Morrison would find Twitter irresistible to communicate his political and artistic slogans;
2) Acting cranky. If Morrison felt out of place during the Sixties, imagine how much he would loathe such institutions as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the tea-party movement;
3) Writing poetry, exclusively: He’d have long since retired from rock and roll, moving away from it after disco became fashionable;
4) Living in seclusion, still in Paris: Morrison would have felt disconnected from society during the Reagan years. Morrison never struck me as much of a “Morning-in-America” kind of a guy;
5) Disowning his Doors legacy: Couldn’t you hear Morrison bellowing at anybody who would listen to him. “I sang rock and roll when I was a kid. But look-it: I’m a serious poet now. OK?”
MEDIA WEB QUESTION OF THE DAY: What do you think Jim Morrison might be doing today?
www.marketwatch.com/story/jim-morrison-dead-40-years-remembered-2011-07-01