The Tragic Death Of The Doors' Jim Morrison

May 2024 ยท 2 minute read

Per the New European, in 1965, a 19-year-old Pamela Courson met Jim Morrison. "The rebellious daughter of an ex-navy man turned high school principal," she was an art student who inspired the spirited lyrics to multiple Doors songs. "My Wild Love" sings her crazes: "My wild love is crazy/ She screams like a bird/ She moans like a cat." This could also be read as a description of Morrison, who, as Biography describes, was the insubordinate son of a naval aviator. And as the Lincoln Journal Star's Scott Bauer complained, "Morrison's unbelievably grating screaming and moaning [seems to] go on forever on some tracks."

These screaming birds of a feather drank and did drugs together, and Courson encouraged Morrison to focus on his poetry. Fittingly, their deaths would almost sound poetically linked. Morrison bought her a fashion boutique called Themesis . After he died, according to Goldmine Magazine, her boutique went belly up amid financial troubles. Though Morrison named Courson as his only heir, they were never officially married, and she ended up embroiled in court battles over his estate. Forced to say goodbye to Themesis, Courson crashed her vehicle through the window.

Some have alleged that one of Courson's dealers dealt the death blow to Morrison by giving him heroin on which he supposedly overdosed. Courson would ultimately die of a heroin overdose at 27 years old. It seems that when Morrison's fire went out, in truth two flames were extinguished.

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