He is revered as a singer, a poet, the idol of a generation and a member of the “27 Club” of rock musicians whose lives were cut short in their prime.
Jim Morrison, the lead singer of The Doors and a thinker whose work drew on influences from the poet William Blake and Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, to Native American culture, was found dead in his Paris apartment in 1971 before his mesmeric hold on his fans could lose its grip.
Next month a leather-bound notebook offering a window into his thoughts in the last few weeks of his life is expected to fetch up to $300,000 (£186,000) when it is sold at auction in Los Angeles.
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