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  When friends told Jim of the death of Janis Joplin (Shortly after the death of Jimi Hendrix) Morrison replied, "Your drinking with number 3". Death Disclosed: Jim Morrison, twenty-seven, rock superstar, The lead singer of The Doors. Though his manager fueled suspicion by keeping Morrison's death a secret for six days - until after his burial last week - there was no evidence of a drug connection as in last year's deaths of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, nor was Morrison's fifth-a-day booze habit officially a factor; police listed a heart attack as the cause after Morrison was found dead in the bathtub of his apartment in Paris, where he had been living as a writer in recent months. His trademarks in the rock culture included his arcane, keenly suggestive lyrics, sung in a throaty baritone, by turns sullen and frenzied. But with his skintight pants and lascivious style, the Florida-born admiral's son was best known as an erotic male performer in the line of succession that runs from Elvis Presley to Mick Jagger; Morrison once overdid it to the extent of being found guilty of indecent exposure at a rock concert in Miami. Morrison leaves his wife, Pamela his parents, a brother, and a sister. SOURCE: NEWSWEEK - July 3, 1971 

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