Jim Morrison The End

“The End” is a rock song that was released on Jan. 4, 1967. It was Produced by The Doors and Paul A. Rothchild. The song is a very twisted, psychedelic, vivid song about just that – the end. It represents a time of the takeover of the counterculture and a deep divide between the people of the United States. After the “House of the Rising Sun” this song showed more and more deep and dark thoughts that were portrayed through music in the late 1960s. Likely meaning the end of days, and more specifically, the end of the singer’s days, the Doors capture a dark fantasy about a son of a wife and husband who goes insane and commits some very sick deeds. The near 12-minute ballad captures the turmoil and anti-establishment of the 1960’s. This song shows the transformation rock music made from being about teenage love of the 1950’s to the tumultuous and hectic 1970’s.

Morrison was a gifted songwriter (wrote most if not all the Doors music, although all 4 members at some point and thought of himself as a poet) with a great voice remarkable antics that typically either got him, or his band into trouble. Morrison wrote and always was on vocals; occasionally having a tambourine with him at the mic. Jim’s crazy and reckless lifestyle sent him into a spin, a violent drunk and a drug addict, this eventually would catch up to him and tragically in 1971 we lost one of the greatest entertainers ever to a death at 27 – likely attributed to heroin and other complications.