In the mid-1960s, Los Angeles was a mecca of American music, and it was where Pamela Courson decided she wanted to be, escaping her suffocating conservative community in nearby Orange County. Pam was an intelligent but restless young woman, and she found a home among the outcasts of her generation who frequented the nightclubs and parties all over town. On one of these nights, she’d meet a sensitive and handsome poet who’d been thrust into the role of lead singer of a strange rock band called The Doors. Pam and Jim would quickly fall in love and over the next few years; their time together would be a rollercoaster. Ultimately, it would lead them to Paris.

SOURCES:

• Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend by Stephen Davis

• When You’re Strange (2009, d. Tom DiCillo)

• forthe-sun.net/Pages/Articles/jims_last_days.htm">Jim & I: Friends Until Death (Alain Ronay essay)

• Angels Dance and Angels Die: The Tragic Romance of Pamela and Jim Morrison by Patricia Butler

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