Jim Morrison was born on December 8, 1943, in Melbourne, Florida, 200 miles up the Atlantic coast from the location of the riotous scenes he would provoke nearly 26 years later.

A bust of Jim Morrison made in 1981 by Croatian artist Mladen Mikulin was recovered by French ... were early pioneers of the psychedelic blues-rock that would define the late 1960s and early 1970s.