{"id":29846,"date":"2024-07-03T15:02:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T15:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-3-1971-jim-morrison-dies-at-the-age-of-27\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T15:02:43","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T15:02:43","slug":"on-this-day-july-3-1971-jim-morrison-dies-at-the-age-of-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-3-1971-jim-morrison-dies-at-the-age-of-27\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, July 3, 1971: Jim Morrison dies at the age of 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-03\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, July 3, 1971 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Doors<\/strong> frontman <strong>Jim Morrison<\/strong> was found dead in a bathtub in his apartment in Paris, France. He was discovered by his girlfriend, <strong>Pam Courson<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Morrison was 27 at the time of his death, with the official cause of death\u00a0listed\u00a0as heart failure, although there have been conspiracy theories surrounding his death for years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He was buried in P\u00e8re Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, where both <strong>Oscar Wilde<\/strong> and\u00a0<\/span><strong>\u00c9dith Piaf\u00a0<\/strong><span class=\"s1\">are buried. The location has since become a tourist attraction.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Morrison co-founded The Doors with\u00a0<strong>Ray Manzarek\u00a0<\/strong>in July 1965. Drummer\u00a0<strong>John Densmore\u00a0<\/strong>joined in August of that year, followed by guitarist\u00a0<strong>Robby Krieger<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The band released their self-titled debut in January 1967, containing future classics \u201cLight My Fire\u201d and \u201cBreak On Through (To The Other Side).&#8221; \u201cLight My Fire\u201d has since been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, with the album chosen by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry in 2015.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Doors went on to sell over 34 million records worldwide and were inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, July 3, 1971 &#8230; The Doors frontman Jim Morrison was found dead in a bathtub in his apartment in Paris, France. He was discovered by his girlfriend, Pam Courson. Morrison was 27 at the time of his death, with the official cause of death\u00a0listed\u00a0as heart failure, although<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-july-3-1971-jim-morrison-dies-at-the-age-of-27\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}