My visit to Jim Morrison's Final Resting Place/Grave (Paris 2023)

Greg Potters from AlbumReview.net visits "The Doors" singer, Jim Morrison's grave at Pere Lachaise in Paris, France.
Greg is a music lover, Writer, Creator, and President of ALBUM REVIEW INDUSTRIES, LLC (ALBUMREVIEW.NET).

[@MM-ig1iv]

I can't believe someone stole his old original head stone!? what losers, and beyond disrespectful! That's cool you put them songs in.. really brings out the vibe. RIP Jim.

[@archeewaters]

i just got back yesterday, actually 3 this morning, from paris. went to the grave wednesday the 26th of july 2023. it was hard to find. bumped into a family from new jersey who kindly let me join them as we searched. i got to throw a rose to the edge of his grave. it was surrounded by a fence. it was a beautiful sunny day and other people were there on a tour of the cemetary. we were told that jim's grave is the most visited.

[@lucas1527]

just use google map and enter "grave jim morisson " EASY

[@kaindog1007]

We used google maps after a tip off from a French guy.

[@jadeblues357]

Do you know what frustrates me, the fact that there are so many people in the past that destroyed Jim’s grave and they’ve now had to resort to putting a fence around it. And to those people who originally stole the bust that was on his tombstone that is just disgraceful😢

[@archeewaters]

@@jadeblues357 i totally agree with you. it did put somewhat of a damper on the experience, but i have a picture of his statue in my phone and a good throwing arm. :)

[@rolandlastname5532]

@@jadeblues357 seen that glass wall, more solid than that little fence, to protect the grave of Oscar Wilde?

[@chadgazi9454]

I was lucky enough to visit in the first lockdown. There was no one else there and I had a cry. I'm in recovery from addiction and it just meant so much to be there alone 🙏🏽

[@albumreviewwithgregpotters8095]

Thank you for sharing. Congratulations on your recovery. Best of luck to you!

[@chadgazi9454]

@@albumreviewwithgregpotters8095 🙂 thanks....a prolonged derangement of the senses to atain the unknown....🙏🏽 I had a lucky escape

[@tyu346]

That cementery is pure art

[@xanderztasdelen7666]

I still miss you. ❤❤❤❤❤God bless all the Doors members legend never die ❤❤❤❤

[@willtheangrydudeist9120]

I was able to visit there just a few days after his new tombstone was dedicated in 92..... Intense place for sure

[@thomasmuller1425]

If I ever to France one day, one of the first places I'm going to visit is Pére Lachaise cemetery & I'm gonna pay Mr. Jim Morrison a visit.

[@jimmorrison6421]

Me too man I've been thinking about doing it since I was 14 years old I am 55 now man so I'm starting to run out of time but I always wanted to do it it's like on my bucket list I got to get there one day man have you seen so much video about it online and it just seems so cool and the to find out that it's the most visited grave in the cemetery it's really cool to think there's so many people still know of him and the doors music and want to visit his grave only wish that the original bust of his head was still there among other things although andthe original stone although I've seen pictures of it at the time and it was really kind of disrespectful with all the markers written all over the tombstones of other people like this way to Jim and Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix forever what kind of graffiti even one that said Jim was a junkie

[@billcox1995]

Music and poetry can portray what we cannot understand and might be enough for some to glimpse another dimension.

[@MM-ig1iv]

The last song he ever did or sang was riders on the storm.. makes it even more special and haunting.

[@lucas1527]

Every year on 3 rd of july , lots of people come from all Europe , and sometimes from all over the W . It can be hundreds of people . Often they start to sing Doors songs :) Awesome

[@jimmorrison6421]

Yeah and on December 8th that's his birthday that's a big day to cemetery for his grave too

[@bspg53]

Guitar intro to "The End" was a perfect fit for the visuals in your video. Nice work.

[@albumreviewwithgregpotters8095]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks @bspg53

[@MrKotenkoV]

Спасибо за память !

[@yalerich7417]

This trip is on my "Bucket list"!

[@shammon1]

Was at the grave way back in 2006 and there was a security guard stationed at it to stop people taking parts of the grave.

[@dopacwiew2980]

Was für ein fürchterlicher Friedhof, welch trauriges Grab. Eingepfercht und ungepflegt. Nur …weil soo viele Besucher kommen wird es nicht schöner. Ich finde diese Grabstätte würdelos. Frage mich ohnehin warum ihn damals seine Familie nicht nach Hause geholt hat. Armer Jim..du hättest ein wunderschönes Grab verdient. Vielleicht mit dem Bildnis welches du so sehr verehrt hast.

[@kimsullivan-wz8wz]

I agree with you it isn't a very well kept place, and at one point they wanted to throw him out of there, I guess you rent your space in the graveyards there, but when they found out how much money they make of people traveling there to visit his grave they renewed the lease, so generous of them lol

[@jimmorrison6421]

​@@kimsullivan-wz8wzyou're 120% right they wanted to throw them out of there because like you said you got to renew the grave every 10 years and because of all the graffiti on other grades and everybody was complaining families of other people that have died there and had tombstones and once he saw how big it was it supposed to be like the third biggest tourist attraction in all the fucking Paris in France and all the money it made for the cemetery

[@lisaparsons4124]

Jim Morrison a awesome singer so sad he passed away May Jim Morrison RIP 🙏💐

[@secretsofthepastsparahisto2993]

Hello from Canada I just subbed too your channel great video next year I hope too visit his grave like you I too have been a Jim Morrison Doors fan since I was 13 or 14 I am 45 now you truly are lucky too be at his grave FYI Debalzak Oscar Wilde and other great poets and writers of classic literature are also buried there as well .

[@albumreviewwithgregpotters8095]

Thanks for the sub! Hope you continue to enjoy the content!

[@gustavnovak]

Been there in 1989...yes I'm old...🖖😊👍

[@katy9433]

Always wondered Jim Morrisons family did not want to have his body flown back to the USA. Los Angeles or Florida his birth place.

[@kimsullivan-wz8wz]

I could never understand that either. But one sight I was on one time, this guy said he went to visit the grave site, and one of the workers in the grave yard said the family came there and did have his body removed, and had that headstone thats there now left as a memorial to him for the fans to visit

[@jimmorrison6421]

​@@kimsullivan-wz8wzI can't really believe that man I would think that somehow that would have gone out and all the world would know

[@jeffhsipepi]

Greg thanks for sharing, this is awesome!!

[@albumreviewwithgregpotters8095]

Thank you sir! Wish you had been there to join me! What an experience!

[@albumreviewwithgregpotters8095]

Thanks Jeff. It was quite a trip. Walking on cobblestone streets with a broken leg/ankle that is in the healing process was not easy. But this was a pilgrimage I HAD to make. Glad you enjoyed!

[@jamesonhills266]

hes still a rock legend its too bad his life was cut short by drugs and alcohol but his work still lives on

[@stevencopley5487]

Wow.. 😢

[@fotis1964]

In early 80's my brother visited his grave and was different than is today.

[@jimmorrison6421]

I see pictures of the grave in the late seventies maybe the early days I think and there was graffiti all over the place man the kind of really I want him fucked it all up on the other hand I had some friends who thought it was kind of cool

[@ilmarlacerdadealmeida466]

meu sonho visitar o túmulo desse poeta tão incrível, 😢❤Tim Morrison. Obrigado KZbin.

[@fudroaster6291]

Visited in the Spring of 92'. We snuck in at night, no bother finding it....followed the graffiti showing the directions. We had a bottle of JD which almost broke climbing the high wall. Spooky at night. Security guards caught us after a while and flung us out.

[@kimsullivan-wz8wz]

what a cool experience

[@jimmorrison6421]

Yeah that's why you wanted this phone number one time there was a lot of graffiti that pointed the way to his grave and another other people's tombstones

[@peterrex8191]

I went in 1998…you could just walk right up to grave..take pics leave flowers etc..too bad a few bad apples ruined it for everyone…although I have been to Paris many time since that was the only time I went…it’s a grave stone and dirt..I’d rather listen to the music..that’s where the life is.

[@loganstroganoff1284]

I was there 2 weeks ago. Donno why ppl say its hard to find i scanned the QR code on a map walking in and followed it. Beautiful cemetery and peaceful. Fed the ravens and pigeons and had a great experience.

[@rosariodominguez3476]

Si yo también estuve este verano, su tumba y la de E. Piaff, las más visitadas❤

[@gabrielaelizabethescobed-sq6xg]

Cuando vaya a París le llevaré flores a su tumba.

[@seh581]

🙏

[@jimm3205]

Great but why record this in portrait mode?

[@nanaboosha3840]

Je l'ai visité en 2007 et je lui ai offert ma boucle d'oreille

[@erichetherington9899]

ty Greg Potters :)

[@susanborkenhagen58]

I went to his grave in 1997 to leave a note and a cork from a bottle of wine and so many people were looking for it. It was covered in candles, notes, etc. It was on July 3, the date of his death.

[@mben-david2064]

Alcohol kIlled him, hardly a thoughtful gift, Sparky,

[@erichetherington9899]

likes here may God Bless in all His salvation kk E. :)

[@pabloadame652]

Me hiciste llorar 😢😢 Jim me acordé de mi padre i primos fallecidos 😢😢

[@mullin99]

I was there in 2000 when you could go right up to it ..I took a picture ,I remember some booze there ,lots of cigarette butts ,poetry

[@fararden75]

Was there in Nov 1998

[@Uytaryn]

That is nice, been there in 1991, smoked it, but there were rumours of his remains doug up and shipped to america. Thank you, and don't forget, Elle by Paul Verhoeven ends there, and eh, the doors really are infinite and immortal but there ar no doors among the emoticons

[@kimsullivan-wz8wz]

heard the same thing, after the bust of him was stolen of the grave

[@tommy2times277]

I'll be in Paris in Oct 2024. I told my friend whom both of us are Doors fans that we should go see the burial of Jim Morrison. Hopefully we will be able to find it. I was watching your video, sir. So is it head right as soon as I see the statue where no walking is permitted on 3:45?

[@albumreviewwithgregpotters8095]

Hi @tommy2times277: Yes but there are several entrances to the cemetery. It is very large. You can go on Google Maps, type in his gravesite and it should map you right to him...It's that easy...

[@vincentweyerts-bu3jp]

I was there in the summer of 1991 for the 20th anniversary of his death. There were guards, but you could still access his grave. There were no fences then. Sad.

[@walterhomburg]

At the 20th anniversary, there also where things happened, what was one of the reason they put fences around his grave.. But these days, the security only come at the anniversary days

[@toxotis]

‘ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΝ ΔΑΙΜΟΝΑ ΕΑΥΤΟΥ’ … such a wise words .. and that’s how Jim lived, according to his way of thinking, his moral rules !

[@danielhutchinson7115]

It's not a yard of Graves. Rather a Shrine of sorts for people who s destiney placed them here forever. Jim Morrison , my mentor , my employer , my old friend and my Example of a Ceremony called The Dithyramb. Join in on it as the music starts and understand ,

[@briancorbin5542]

4:32 i see Jim Morrison

[@thehappywerewolf]

Back in the 2000s the 30 year lease on Jim's plot ran out not to burst anyone's bubble but he's not in there. The French government payed for a life time lease AKA forever. but moved him so he can rest in peace under one of his alias,s. That's just for fan's and tourism The lease running out is public record.

[@rolandlastname5532]

Life time is not the jargon for a grave in case you are dead :-) Many graves at Pere Lachaise have inscripted: license perpetuelle, that is what you mean. The 30 year lease should have expired a few days after 3 july 2001. But are you sure his remains are moved? That would not make sense to me. Any clue as moved to where? By the way, the tomb of Oscar Wilde nearby has more protection: a 2 m tall solid glass wall all around, provided by the City of Paris

[@mben-david2064]

The lease was re-designated in 2001, 30 years after he passed. He is now the permanent and sole owner/ resident of that plot. You're what the French call " Le Imbecile".

[@rolandlastname5532]

@@mben-david2064 tu veux dire: l'imbecile ?

[@yalerich7417]

I have this trip on my "Bucket list"!

[@jimmorrison6421]

​@@mben-david2064I thought they had a renew the lease like every 10 years or something like that

[@rski1036]

What a sad overcrowded, unkept cemetery.

[@FabienneFlici]

RIP jim😢😢

[@pedrocerda2056]

I heard that a couple of guys were putting a new bust but the constables stopped them

[@jonathanwoods9843]

Sad that a fence blocks everyone from getting close to his grave. Not just the fence, but the security guard giving you the eye as he walks behind the tombstones.

[@philippebryndzia3646]

Was there in 82,probably because of the sugerman’s book ….dirty,filthy broken statue,drug deal..no respect whatsoever started to say few things….,went back less than 2y later maybe, as bad than ever…..but no more statue stolen….

[@adamx6000]

I heard his epitaph translates to “TRUE TO HIS OWN SPIRIT” but Google translate has, “AGAINST THE DEMON WITHIN THYSELF”. For such a strait laced father that Morrison had, that is a great fiting epitaph.

[@Nick-Tsat]

Its wrong translate Κατα τον δαιμωνα εαυτου has different meanning

[@ChesterBenjaminLane]

Jim Morrison's final resting place is not hard to find 😢

[@mickbrilliantfootballeroft327]

It isn't that straight forward brugh.. Hey but when I was there, O, must been 2000, they had sme flood or work issue, so you couldn't access the way one nbormaallly would. I will say this though,. WOW the French have a take on a cemetery like no other, not the greeks, the romans, the Dutch, Russian or Asian.. it is a galmourous death being dead for thos interred. :)

[@majik_man]

6:28 That security guard definately wants to throw you out. He know's a troublemaker when he see's him.

[@ColleenCupido]

This Most visited site in Paris. In Paris??? Found dead in bathtub drowned. No autopsy. Could it actually Gasp have been a heart attack

[@JulianElder-x6m]

Jim.

[@julllysergik9800]

Bonjour,le corp a été rapratié aux USA vers l année 2000

[@viqarakram9440]

MR.MOJO RISIN WAITIN 4 D SUMMER RAIN..WEN D MUSICS OVA TURN OUT D LITE..THIS IS THE END..

[@erichetherington9899]

soon

[@theantinatalismzone392]

He is in Oregon maybe

[@AMeise-vy4fk]

Was there 1992. Got Drunk for 3 Days, slept under the Eifeltower, climbed up his Legs and was beaten by the French Police. 😂

[@paulwojnar2291]

He isnt there you know. Just his empty physical remains are. He and Ray are together again . In another astral plane.

[@sr2291]

Bet his body ain't in there.

[@johnviasus93]

Jimbo

[@onlyvictoryandfreedom5107]

🇬🇪🇨🇦🇺🇲🇮🇱🇺🇦💯👍

[@erichetherington9899]

yeppers

[@marha-c1h]

Jim Morrison ad his uncontrolled addictions, I don't care. The past is gone and that's it!!

[@thomascollins1739]

I see Jim Morrison’s face on the right at 6:56.

[@sierrasky2491]

The full size bust is missing😢

[@T1971-w4c]

Stolen in 1987 . 🤦

[@gabrielsuarez7716]

But in the 1991 movie is shown.

[@vicvega3614]

Thats been missing since the late 80s, i bet whoever stole it smashed it, i feel like it would've been found by now if it was just sitting on someone's coffee table but i would like to know

[@jimmorrison6421]

​@@vicvega3614yeah me too man I heard that it was stolen by two guys I can't remember if there was more information about their names and where they were from

[@donloux]

Go back and film it again without black areas covering 70% of the view. Geez!

[@micheldutch3393]

Ok hé could sing,, so what?? I know persons Who have more. 💙

[@x-pan-x1h]

goodbye lili marleen Hitler's?

[@MM-ig1iv]

wtf? got issues don't we..