{"id":94252,"date":"2025-05-21T14:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/missing-jim-morrison-bust-found-after-37-years-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T14:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:57:08","slug":"missing-jim-morrison-bust-found-after-37-years-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/missing-jim-morrison-bust-found-after-37-years-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Jim Morrison bust found after 37 years | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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French police have recovered by chance the long-lost bust of the American singer Jim Morrison that once adorned the grave of the iconic frontman of The Doors, 37 years after it was stolen from a Paris cemetery.<\/p>\n

The sculpture, missing since 1988, was found during a search tied to a fraud case led by the Paris public prosecutor’s office, a source close to the investigation told AFP.<\/p>\n

Nostalgic rock fans still flock to Morrison’s grave at Paris’s P\u00e8re-Lachaise cemetery, where he was buried after his death in the French capital in 1971 at the age of 27.<\/p>\n

The sculpture, by the Croatian artist Mladen Mikulin, had been placed at the grave to mark the 10th anniversary of Morrison’s death.<\/p>\n

It was found by the financial and anti-corruption brigade of the judicial police department of the police.<\/p>\n

The exact circumstances of the singer’s death are still shrouded in mystery, with most early accounts saying he died of cardiac arrest in his bathtub.<\/p>\n

A French journalist, Sam Bernett, alleged in a 2007 book that close friends and family spun the official version of Morrison’s death to sanitise his reputation.<\/p>\n

Bernett alleged that Morrison died from a heroin overdose on the toilet of a nightclub that the journalist owned at the time, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus on Paris’s Left Bank.<\/p>\n

The Doors, founded in Los Angeles, were among the most influential rock groups of the late 1960s and early ’70s and a mainstay of the counterculture of the times.<\/p>\n

Their hits include Riders on the Storm, Light My Fire, and The End, a haunting song that features prominently in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 Vietnam war film Apocalypse Now.<\/p>\n

In February, Paris named a bridge after the iconic singer, located just steps from the bohemian Marais district where he last lived. afp<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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