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Born on December 8, 1943 in Melbourne, Florida, United States, Jim Morrison was a vocalist, director and singer-songwriter. Death is recorded on July 3, 1971, at the age of 27. Jim Morrison was educated at Alameda High School and St. Petersburg College.
My Take
I'll be honest — Jim Morrison is one of those figures who could easily become a cliché, the brooding leather-pants poet on every college dorm wall, but the more you actually sit with the Doors' catalog, the more you realize the man genuinely earned the mythology. His baritone had this low, almost threatening gravity that turned a three-minute rock song into something closer to a ritual, and lyrics like those on "The End" or "Riders on the Storm" hold up as real literature, not just rock-radio filler. He studied film at UCLA, devoured Nietzsche and Rimbaud, and you can feel all of it bleeding into the music in a way that never quite sounds pretentious — just dangerous. Gone at 27, buried in Paris, forever young in the worst and most beautiful sense of the phrase.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Jim Morrison
- Name (Japanese)
- ジム・モリソン
- Reading
- じむ・もりそん
- Born
- December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Goat
- Origin
- Melbourne, Florida, United States
- Occupation
- vocalist / director / singer-songwriter / lyricist / composer
2. Background
- High school
- Alameda High School
- University
- St. Petersburg College
3. Links
- Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Morrison
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3
- Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44301
4. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.
Frequently asked questions
When was Jim Morrison born?
Born December 8, 1943.
When did Jim Morrison die?
Died July 3, 1971, aged 27.
Where was Jim Morrison from?
Jim Morrison was from Melbourne, Florida, United States.
What did Jim Morrison do?
Jim Morrison worked as vocalist, director, singer-songwriter, lyricist, composer.
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