Morrison recalled: '.all I saw was funny red paint and people lying around, but I knew something was happening, because I could dig the vibrations of the people around me, 'cause they're my parents and all, and all of a sudden I realized that they didn't know what was happening any more than I did. A truck packed with Indian workers had crashed, leaving dead and mutilated bodies of the victims strewn across the highway. He underwent a traumatic but formative experience around the age of five when driving with his family through the New Mexico desert. Morrison's younger brother Andy remembered, 'There was always a big crowd around the piano with my dad playing popular songs that he could pick up by ear.'ĭuring his early years, Morrison was a dutiful and highly intelligent child, excelling at school and taking a particular interest in reading, writing and drawing. Admiral George Morrison was also a skilled pianist who enjoyed performing for friends at parties. naval forces aboard the flagship USS Bon Homme Richard during the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident that helped ignite the Vietnam War. His mother, Clara Clarke Morrison, was a homemaker, and his father, George Stephen Morrison, was a naval aviator who rose to the rank of Rear Admiral. Singer and songwriter Jim Morrison was born James Douglas Morrison on December 8, 1943, in Melbourne, Florida. He studied film at UCLA, where he met the members of what would become the Doors, an iconic band that would have hits like 'Light My Fire,' 'Hello, I Love You,' 'Touch Me' and 'Riders on the Storm.' Known for his drinking, drug use and outrageous stage behavior, in 1971 Morrison left the Doors to write poetry and moved to Paris, where he presumably died of heart failure at the age of 27. Jim Morrison was an American rock singer and songwriter.

Morrison & Mr Moore by Michael Hyde