Front man of The Doors, Jim Morrison, is set to receive a posthumous pardon for flopping his one eyed trouser snake out on stage during a concert in Miami, Florida in 1969. The American Poet was convicted of indecent exposure and open profanity by a jury in 1970, although he managed to get himself off the hook when it came to associated felony counts of lewd and lascivious behaviour and public drunkenness. Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who no doubt smoked a few cones while listening to LA Woman while he was a high school student, has been lobbying for Morrison to receive a pardon. The outgoing Governor, who was a Republican but is now aiming for a Senate seat as an independent, told Florida’s The St Petersburg Times ‘The more I looked in to it, the more I felt the right thing to do would be to try to bring about a pardon. And i’ve reached that conclusion now, that’s what i’m going to do.”
Although Morrison supposedly took his little red rooster for a walk out of the chicken coop, no-one actually testified in court that they saw the Lizard King’s errr … lizard, and no footage of the gig showed any part of his anatomy attempting to Break on Through. Nor, for that matter did any part of his manhood leap out to say Hello, I Love You to the crowd, or if it did, it was certainly part of The Soft Parade. Morrison was sentenced to six months jail for the indecent exposure and open profanity charges, but died in a Paris bathtub two years later while the charges were still on appeal.
