For all the Jim Morrison fans out there.

For all the Jim Morrison fans out there. 

Jim Morrison, a saggitarian born on 8 Dec 1943 was only 27 years old when he died in July 1971. Just 27!!! If he was alive today, he would have been 78 years old, alongside Paul McCartney, Barbara Streisand, Harrison Ford, Calvin Clien and even Joe Biden.

So, after founding The Doors in 1965, all that he achieved was done over a span of a mere 6 years. In six years, the first two of which were spent in obscurity, they went from small time band to international fame in 1967 and all the great music we hear today was composed between 1967-1970.

The fame of Doors shot up even higher after his death of an alleged heroin overdose after which he was found in his bathtub (ala sridevi). Others who died at 27yrs in that same year were Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, just within months of each other.

It still took years for The Doors to be known worldwide, mostly posthumously, due to the cult following they generated and the 21 compilation albums that followed. We are still listening to them today.

Just think about it, what did all of us do from the age of 21 to 27 to make such an impression on the world?

How much amazing music has the world been deprived of, due to the untimely death of awesome singers due to overdosing on drugs and related stuff. 

Imagine what a rich music world this would be if Jim Morrison had lived on longer, like Frank Zappa who made over 100 studio albums in another wild career spanning 30 years, until he too died at age of 52. Or Elvis Presley releasing over 60 albums before dying at age of 42. The Doors only released a total of 9 studio albums and 5 Live albums, in a span of 5 years. And thats it. We are missing more than 50 albums, gone from a world that never happened for Jim Morrison.

Heroin has single-handedly killed off amazing talent from the music world, followed only by plane crashes that also caused similar shock untimely departures. But on the other hand, could heroin have been the very reason for unlocking so much talent, creativity and perspective, and therefore, the ultimate price to pay for all the fame that followed. Perhaps these super talented musicians end up living life on the edge only to please their fans, to give them more and more of their talent until one day it just goes dry, and the overdose happens when they push the limits a bit too far.

If all these singers went early and unwillingly to the big happy stage in the sky, today its the Cloud that is taking them to fans across time, across generations.

Jim's dying at 27 has however kept him young, we never got to see an old version of him, he was always the youthful Lizard King and it's perhaps the only way to stay forever young, by dying young.

I raise my single malt glass to great musicians who have made our days and evenings memorable.