Not everyone loves a rock star. In fact, plenty of people don’t like them at all, or at least aren’t willing to forgive them their trespasses when they act like … well, rock stars.
Call them The Man, The Right or Señor Killjoy, but some people insist on holding rock stars accountable to the same laws that govern the rest of us.
Ridiculous, I know. Which makes it all the more momentous that legendary frontman Jim Morrison may finally be forgiven for a now-legendary bit of rock-star impropriety connected to a Doors concert at Miami’s Dinner Key Auditorium in 1969.
After the concert, a warrant was issued to arrest Morrison, a native Floridian, citing lewd behavior during the show, including intentionally exposing himself, public drunkenness and swearing – you know, normal rock-star stuff.
When he refused to play a free concert in Miami as part of a proffered plea bargain, Morrison was handed a six-month prison sentence and a $500 fine. Morrison left the country and died in a bathtub in Paris on July 3, 1971, before serving any of his sentence.