Episode #279 | 7.7.26
Jim Morrison: Who Killed Jim Morrison?
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But wait, Jim Morrison overdosed on heroin because he was a drug addict rockstar just like Janis Joplin, right? Wrong. Who exactly was "the Count," the French aristocrat who was there at the scene of Jim's death? The same man who was with Janis Joplin hours before she died? Was rumored to somehow be involved with Jimi Hendrix? The friend of Keith Richards and Gram Parsons? And why did Jim Morrison hate him so much? And why was Mick Jagger's ex-girlfriend Marianne Faithfull so insistent that she knew how Jim really died?
Sources
No One Here Gets Out Alive: The Biography of Jim Morrison, by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman
The End: The Death of Jim Morrison, by Bob Seymore
Faithfull: An Autobiography, by Marianne Faithfull with David Dalton
Alain Ronay’s account of Jim’s passing-what Alain knows? (Jim Morrison the Lizard King)
Ed Sanders of The Fugs on Marianne Faithful, Jean de Breteuil and Jim Morrison’s death (Dangerous Minds)
Marianne Faithful: My boyfriend killed Jim Morrison (The Guardian)
Jean de Breteuil: The French Count Who Dealt Heroin to Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison & Rock’s Elite (Emma Rosa Katharina)
Club manager tells his version of Jim Morrison’s death (Seattle Times)
The Mysterious Death Of Jim Morrison-His Final Hours (Tragedy & Hope)
Credits
Hosted by Jake Brennan.
Written by Jake Brennan.
Copy edited by James Sullivan.
Mixed by Sean Cahalin.
Produced in partnership with the Exactly Right Network and iHeartPodcasts.
DISGRACELAND theme song, “Crenshaw Space Boogie,” written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava, and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.
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