Gone 30 Years, Lizard King Still Draws a Crowd
Paying tribute at one of rock’s most enduring shrines, hundreds of fans pressed around the Paris grave of Doors cult singer Jim Morrison, 30 years after he died.
Security guards hovered as aging hippies, teenage fans and bemused tourists took photos and laid wreaths at his modest plot in Pere Lachaise cemetery. But with alcohol and music now banned at the cemetery, the mood was more that of a family funeral than a late 1960s “happening.”
For the record:
12:00 a.m. July 11, 2001 FOR THE RECORD
Los Angeles Times Wednesday July 11, 2001 Home Edition Part A Part A Page 2 A2 Desk 1 inches; 31 words Type of Material: Correction
Jim Morrison--A wire service news brief published July 4 incorrectly stated why the late rock singer Jim Morrison left the United States for France, where he died in 1971. He was not seeking to escape narcotics officials.
Morrison came to France in early 1971 to escape groupies and narcotics officials. He was found dead July 3 in the bath of his Paris flat, apparently having succumbed to a mix of alcohol, medication, drugs and asthma. He was 27.
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