THAT DAY

Jim Morrison flies to Paris , March 11, 1971

While he finished recording the vocal parts for the album "LA Woman" (his last contribution on the album being the addition of whispers containing the words "Riders on the Storm") and he was condemned to a prison sentence for the Miami case against which he is appealing...

Jim Morrison, free because his bail has been paid, but particularly depressed, flies away on March 11, 1971 for Paris. He never returned to the United States and died in the French capital on July 3, 1971...

This particularly melancholic photograph was found in his personal effects and seems to have been taken by Pamela Courson in the Parisian apartment occupied by the couple...