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Strange twist on dead rockers:
Kurt Cobain - 27 years old.
Janice Joplin - 27 years old.
Jimi Hendrix - 27 years old.
Jim Morrison - 27 years old.
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How did one of the legends of the rock age die in a Paris bathtub in 1971 at age 27, of what the Paris police report said were "natural causes"?
Strange days, indeed, as new revelations suggest the true manner of The Doors frontman's death has been covered up for 36 years.
He did not, according to Sam Bernett, whose French book The End ? Jim Morrison has just appeared here. Bernett, then 21, ran the hottest Paris club, the Rock 'n Roll Circus, which (as the name suggests) drew a nightly crowd of stoners. After midnight on July 3, Bernett claims he discovered Morrison's lifeless body in the club's bathroom, having clearly overdosed on heroin. Angelic images of Morrison still grace countless T-shirts ($22 at funeral stores around Pere Lachaise), but Bernett paints an uglier picture. "There was foam coming out of his lips," the former nightclub owner told TIME. A doctor who was in the club that night concluded that Morrison had overdosed, and "said Jim was dead," he says. "I wanted to call the police or rescue people to help. They [Morrison's drug dealers] said no," and instead had the body driven back to the apartment the singer had rented with his girlfriend, Pamela Courson. It was then soaked in the bath tub.
http://www.time.com/time/world...643884,00.html?cnn=yes
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