Misura I’ve posted before that in the post-punk years The Doors were as influential as Bowie and the Velvets, and that without them Joy Division, The Teardrop Explodes, the Bunnymen and a host of others wouldn’t have sounded the way they did. In the years since though they’ve been more and more dismissed. Jim Morrison is too male a presence for our times: macho, Romantic with a capital R, not carrying his genius lightly. Compare with the androgynous Bowie and sexually slippery Reed and rest of Warhol’s Factory. But the music’s fantastic. All those wonderful songs and albums in 4 or so years.
This was on Radio 4 a few weeks ago:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001thnp?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Includes a visit to Morrison’s grave at Pere-Lachaise. There’s not just Morrison’s grave but Oscar Wilde, Chopin, Edith Piaf, Heloise and Abelard, the monument to the Paris Commune defenders etc. It’s fantastic . I took my wife there on her one time in Paris, though and she was a bit nonplussed.