But that didn’t stop him from tying the knot-sort of-with Patricia Kennealy, a music journalist he met in 1969. During the band’s heyday, he was known as quite the womanizer. Jim Morrison got “married” in a pagan ceremony. Morrison references the grisly scene on the song “Peace Frog”-off The Doors' acclaimed 1970 album Morrison Hotel-and in the spoken-word performances “Dawn’s Highway” and “Ghost Song,” both from the posthumously released 1977 Doors LP An American Prayer. The rocker believed the souls of “maybe one or two” of those Indians landed in his own soul, which was “like a sponge, ready to sit there and absorb it.” “A truckload of Indians had either hit another car or something-there were Indians scattered all over the highway, bleeding to death,” Morrison said. At some point, they came upon the aftermath of a horrific traffic accident. As he remembered it, he was in a car with his parents and his grandfather traveling through New Mexico. Throughout his life, Morrison spoke about a traumatic incident from his childhood. Jim Morrison was haunted by something he claimed to have witnessed in 1947. He even called out Jim’s “complete lack of talent in this direction.” Jim and his father only spoke one more time, via telephone. Upon learning of his estranged son’s rock career, George Morrison wrote a letter to Jim urging him to reconsider. Jim broke away from his parents after enrolling at UCLA in 1964. The elder Morrison utilized the “dressing down” approach to discipline, wherein he’d berate and humiliate young Jim whenever he did something wrong.
Not surprisingly, Morrison didn’t get along with his straitlaced military dad.
Jim Morrison told people his parents were dead. In August 1964, George Morrison was in command of the Navy’s fleet during the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, the controversial episode that became the justification for increased U.S. Navy officer who flew missions during World War II and the Korean War and retired a rear admiral. Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesĪs a counterculture icon, Jim Morrison couldn’t have been less like his father, George S. The Doors during a press conference at London's Heathrow Airport in 1968.
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