THE official story goes like this: on the last night of Jim Morrison’s life, the rocker went to a movie in Paris, listened to records, fell ill and died of heart failure in his bathtub, aged 27. But rumours have always surrounded the death of the Doors frontman and, 36 years later, a former Paris nightclub manager is telling a different story. In a new book, Sam Bernett claims Morrison died in a toilet stall at his nightclub after what he believes was a heroin overdose. He writes of his shock on finding Morrison’s body: “The flamboyant singer of the Doors, the beautiful California boy, had become an inert lump crumpled in the toilet of a nightclub.”
