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New photos from Père Lachaise by fans around Europe
Photos by Jörg Hensel from Germany March 1991 © Jörg Hensel April 1992 © Jörg Hensel Photos from fans in the U.K. and Spain October 31, 1998 © Francisco de Borja Gonzàlez September 2001 © Graham Mills...
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Perimeter around Jim’s grave expanded
Jim, tied with fences This weekend was Nature Festival throughout France. On Sunday, I decided to take advantage of one of the several walking tours offered by the city to learn more about the...
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Deleted animatic from Family Guy
Brian and Stewie visit Jim’s grave Season 3. Episode 20. Road To Europe This the Lizard King man. this is a poet who spoke to me in a way that no one has before or since. The fragile wild child, who...
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This one’s a beauty
June 1981 June 1981 © Mitch Olson Photo courtesy of Mitch Olson. Filed under: Jim Morrison’s grave Tagged: cemetery, grave, Jim Morrison, Paris, Photography
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New photos from the 70s and 80s
Courtesy of Rainer Moddemann My sincerest thanks to Rainer for providing the following photos. It is an honor to include a selection of his vast collection of photos to the visual history of Jim...
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“Rock Around the Grave” by Michelangelo Giampaoli
Ethnologie française 2012 N°3 The Presses Universitaires de France (PUF) has just published issue No. 3 for 2012 of their scholarly journal, Ethnologie française. This issue’s main topic is Paris and...
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Round and round we go…
New signs added to fence surrounding Jim’s grave Cemetery services for the City of Paris have placed new signs on the barrier surrounding Jim’s grave. See my previous post for more information on the...
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Jim Morrison's Grave - A Metamorphosis
Reblogged from Wish I Were Here: The first time I went to Paris, in late August of 1988, I was nineteen years old. I had never expected that I would travel so far. None of it felt real. I visited the...
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"Où est Jim Morrison?” Looking for the Lizard King's grave at Père Lachaise
Reblogged from Travel Oops: Not long ago, I was a substitute teacher for a high school French class. Right away, I confessed to the students that my knowledge of French was very limited. Basically, it...
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Happy Halloween
By creativecarie at www.halloweenforum.com Filed under: Artwork, Jim Morrison’s grave Tagged: Artwork, cemetery, grave, Jim Morrison, Paris, Père Lachaise
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Frank Lisciandro on Père Lachaise and Jim Morrison
Acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, writer and producer Frank Lisciandro is a key figure in the history of The Doors. He worked as an editor on the Doors’ documentary, Feast of Friends, as a...
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Jim, Philip Ryland
Reblogged from Philip Ryland: Read more… 18 more words Acrylic on plywood 13 x 21 cm Painted in 2010 “This piece was painted in 2010 as part of a series of works called ‘99 Objects’. This consisted of...
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New photo, April 1989
Visual history of Jim Morrison’s grave Photo courtesy of Bill Hillman Photo gallery 1971–2012 April 1989 © Bill Hillman Filed under: Jim Morrison’s grave, Père Lachaise Tagged: cemetery, grave, Jim...
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6 popular rock star graves around the world
via @CNNTravel Jim Morrison au Père Lachaise à Paris: en 2eme position pour le classement des tombes les plus rock du monde #CNNTravel on.cnn.com/TsJ28n— CNN France PR (@CNNFrancePR) November 29, 2012...
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A soldier’s visit to Jim Morrison’s grave in 1972
Brian Minnis saw on the website that I was looking for past photos of Jim’s grave in an effort to complete the visual history. He reached out to me and kindly offered to scan and share his photos from...
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Bust photo by British photographer, Kevin Cummins
Photo posted on Twitter by photographer, Kevin Cummins @KCMANC Rare photos from my archive: 5. Jim Morrison's tomb. Le Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris, France. The bust was stolen...
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Jim’s first gravestone surfaces briefly in New Orleans, ca. 1998
Tales of the unexpected I received an incredible and unexpected email the other day from Lue Isaac informing me that her brother, Keith Keller, was briefly the guardian of Jim’s first gravestone in the...
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Who stole Jim Morrison’s bust?
The backstory Croatian artist, Mladen Mikulin, sculpted a bust effigy of Jim Morrison and placed it at his grave days before the 10th anniversary of Jim’s death on July 3, 1981. See Rockin’ The Dead In...
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Ian Astbury of The Cult at Jim Morrison’s grave
Photos posted on Twitter by photographer, Kevin Cummins @KCMANC Here’s a photo I took of Ian Astbury of The Cult at Jim Morrison’s graveside in Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise Paris...
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When idol worship leads to desecration
L’HISTOIRE DU JOUR | La délinquance par amour des vedettes ou quand l’adoration mène à la profanation. bit.ly/15gCUVv — France Info (@franceinfo) March 18, 2013 An interesting article, despite several...
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