Rick Stein on Jim Morrison

Great Lives

BBC

History, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

As a twenty-one year old man travelling the world, a young Rick Stein discovered The Doors and became fascinated by the band's lead singer, Jim Morrison. Over the subsequent fifty years, the life and legend of one of rock and roll's brightest stars had a lasting impact on the restauranteur. Joining Matthew Parris and Rick Stein to uncover the mysteries of Jim's life is the broadcaster Paul Gambaccini, who found The Doors when he was a student radio disc jockey at university. With contributions from Frank Lisciandro, filmmaker and friend of Jim, and Kirsten Norrie, poet and singer. Producer: Camellia Sinclair

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0:36.2	fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.
0:41.6	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:45.0	This is a podcast of an addition of great lives about Jim Morrison.
0:50.0	It was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and this is an extended edition of the original program.
0:57.0	For Wright's reasons, we're unable to play the music of the doors in the podcast version.
1:04.0	In the northeast of Paris amongst 5,000 trees,
1:08.0	you'll find the resting place of Oscar Wilde, Edith Piaf, Marcel Proust, Sarah Bernhardt and Frederick Chopin.
1:16.3	And this is Pear Lacheres Cemetery.
1:19.1	Surrounded by the hundreds of thousands of gravestones lies a small plinth, a site of pilgrimage for many
1:25.8	a young dreamer, music lover or bedroom rock star.
1:29.8	A famous figure was laid to rest there almost 50 years ago at the tender age of 27.
1:36.5	His death certificate read James Douglas Morrison poet.
1:42.2	How is James better known?
1:44.0	Jim Morrison, of course.
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