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On the occasion of Jim Morrison’s 50th day of death, a collection of his lyrical works appears, on which his sister Anne Morrison Chewning also affects. In an interview with the Del Mar Times Now talked about the difficult relationship of Morrison to his father.
Child of a naval officer
Long before James Douglas Morrison became The Doors singer Jim Morrison, he spent the typical childhood of a American “military child”. His father, a naval officer who fought, among other things in World War II and Vietnam, had the family firmly in his hand. So George Stephen Morrison and his lively son kept coming together, as Morrison’s sister reports: “He played pranks and alberte all the time. That often brought us into trouble on the navy basis.”
He pretended that his parents were dead
With Morrison’s beginnings as a rock musician, the relationship with his father continued. This was so little impressed by his son’s professional ambitions that he pushed him in a letter to hang the music on the nail. Jim, on the other hand,, at the time in his early 20s, whenever he was asked, his parents had already died.
Posthumous reconciliation
Confronted the growing awareness of his son and his public escapades, Marine’s soldier George Stephen Morrison finally offered his employers to turn their back on the military career, but this never occurred. “He loved the navy and didn’t want something to do that Jim did,” says Morrison’s sister. It was only after the early death of the singer that his father, who only died in 2008, seemed to have closed peace with his son’s moving life. When Morrison’s grave in Paris fell victim to vandalism, it was George Stephen who took care of the design of a new tombstone.