Jim Morrison

James Douglas Morrison (8 December, 1943 – 3 July, 1971) was an American singer, poet, songwriter, writer, and film director. He is best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors, and is widely considered to be one of the most charisma and influential frontmen in rock music history. He was also the author of several books of poetry, and the director of a documentary and short film. Morrison was born in Melbourne, Florida, in 1943 to future Admiral George Stephen Morrison and Clara Clarke Morrison. Morrison had a sister, Anne Robin, who was born in 1947 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a brother, Andrew Lee Morrison, who was born 1948 in Los Altos, California. He was of Scottish and Irish ethnic heritage. He had an IQ of 153. In 1947, Morrison, then 4 years old, purportedly witnessed a car accident in the desert, where a family of Native Americans were injured and possibly killed. He referred to this incident in a spoken word performance on the song "Dawn's Highway" from the... full article at wikipedia