European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Focus by Kominicki staff writer the signs pointing the Way to Jim Morrison grave begin As soon As you step inside the crumbling Wall that surrounds per Lachaise cemetery in not official but chalked and painted Graffiti sprayed and scratched on the stones that cover other you May have trouble locating Sarah Bernhardt remains but you will find Morrison go says the arrows Point suddenly you passed an italian girl in a led Zeppelin shirt had had no she was maybe her body still and she was sniffling a rearranging the wine bottles full of brushing a dead Leaf from Between the she tucked a note to Jim under a Corner of the Headstone and still walked Zeppelin tour dates disappearing behind the rows of jumbled the girl could have been no More than two years old in the year Morrison body was found in his no matter Morrison remains a kind of ageless perfectly preserved on Vinyl and in a couple of Low Grade Hes forever forever the wild and obscenely creative Lizard Jim Morrison lives on in a generation that has never known him As anything but its a posthumous popularity eclipsing anything the doors experienced during their late 1960s Morrison and keyboardist Ray Manzares formed the doors 20 years the idea being to put some of jims oedipal epics to Early Morrison promised something much More were going to be the greatest Rock band he the bands first albums suggested Morrison might not be too far the doors the name was from poet William Blake As quoted in Aldous Huxley treatise on the doors of perception hit the charts with cuts like Light my fire and people Are Morrison dragged his fans behind through the More menacing themes of the through the Rock parody of his mythical alter the Lizard it was All self destruction followed Success with amphetamine by 1968 he was completely off causing near riots at provoking fights on exposing himself on Jim Morrison an american rebel lives in Paris photos by Dave Didio Morrison started doing Elvis overweight and usually too stoned to he predicted his own after the drug deaths of Janis Joplin and Jami Morrison told youre drinking with the decision to give it All up came in a depressed and world weary saying he wanted not headed for Paris was to be his a port in the Legal storm that was brewing he faced obscenity charges in Miami and 20odd paternity it was to be an Oasis surrounded by the ghosts of the French he could write his dark poetry and Patch things up with wife he succeeded Only in beating the he apparently of heart on july Pamela had him quietly buried at Pere Lachaise she died a Short while later of a heroin among the Small crowd of people huddling around Morrison grave one Day in july were two Exchange students from North in the City of Light to perfect the slur parisians give their they they taken snapshots of each other and were sitting off to one trying to look a Little sorrowful but obviously excited by the we had to come see one of them you cant visit Paris without visiting you gotta see there Are 38 of us in our group and i think All of us have come Here at least once to see but were not Morrison her companion added i the doors Are great for but were not really crazy about i have a Friend Back Home who Shes got All his Shes got buttons everything Wailtl she sees my Shell her and emerging yuppies like buy a couple million doors albums a since Morrison death but especially since when the end was featured in apocalypse now All the doors records have gone Gold or a Morrison biography was a bestseller a doors is currently moving up the billboard a Rock video is making the rounds and a movie is the father Jim always claimed was a retired rear collects his sons Morrison his does not the publishers of his 1971 Book the lords and the new creatures can offer you a first edition the original printing never sold its jims poetry that really interests said Seiko an 18yearold dutch he was crouched within the ring of Graffiti covered tombs that give Morrison plot a new York subway look Prince sucks and we want the world and we want it now among much Seiko had been removed earlier by cemetery but he was longhaired and almost looking like the Young Jesus in illustrated he was hauling around one of those knitted bags you see on the Walls in greek i know i was Young when Jim was he but i have his his books of i think i understand what he was trying to Veikos interpretation is for at 2 francs a jims the inspiration for my own my own i sell them to get a Little Money for per Lachaise is the resting place for the Rich and including Sarah Bernhardt and Oscar Wilde the 2 francs gets you Veikos ode into burning  Ces Flowers on Morrison a handful of stanzas on what else Seiko Woudstra admires Morrison Stormy Graffiti Points the Way to Morrison open per Lachaise is open year hours March to 6 6 to 5 and 16march 8 to prices entry is most visitors tip the guards for a map of the cemetery celebrity How to get there per Lachaise is in Paris 20th the main Entrance is on Boulevard de metro station per Lachaise is at the cemetery Northwest Morrison grave is off the cemetery Avenue Casimir near Chemin death and despair As i left the dead City i went to the burned my clothes and gave Freedom to the awoken snakes inside a few Days later a closely cropped German youth named Karl was sitting on the Corner of jims grave rolling a he was the Advance guard of the 50 or so people expected to show up for the 14th anniversary of Morrison i was Here last he Licking the cigarette there was music and a lot of people getting off on the memory of it was All but you he i dont believe Jim is really i dont think this is his this is More like a shrine to first it was an unmarked grave and then someone added the it was an from that did the in i now someones painted in not sure i like it and Karl cannot resist bringing up the Morrison mystery the big question is whether Jim Ever Only Pamela saw his body and Shes you Jim always said he would like to give up the life of being a Rock Star and go somewhere to write maybe he is doing maybe in Africa or someplace like a few of the assembled 15 Heads nodded Seiko still burdened with the greek restaurant Hows the poetry someone All sold he said in taking the Money and going to Southern 10 stripes Magazine jury stripes Magazine 77