Jim Morrison of The Doors is the subject of a new docuseries called 'Before the End: ... She later updated and expanded the book in 2013, ... where he hoped to focus on writing poetry.

Morrison and Manzarek were big book fiends and conjured the band's name from a line in a William Blake poem: "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is ...

Journalist Sam Bernett claimed in his 2007 book The End: Jim Morrison that the late singer's ... With an affinity for literature and poetry, Morrison managed to pay homage to his bookish roots ...

Morrison and Manzarek were big book fiends and conjured the band's name from a line in a William Blake poem: "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is ...

Morrison enjoyed reading and writing poetry which is possibly how the band found the book in the first place to inspire their name. When the band would perform live Morrison would on occasion read ...

"He came up to me and said, 'Hi Robby, I'm Val Kilmer, I got the gig, I'm going to play Jim,'" Krieger recalls, reflecting with fondness on that encounter in light of Kilmer's passing on April 1 ...