It’s a hardly-known fact that in the same way that Fab Four fans could buy Beatle wigs and suits, a limited amount of merchandising around their Stateside contemporaries The Doors was also released. Costing $4.95 in 1969, the ‘realistic-looking’ Jim Morrison wig/beard combo transformed any wannabe Lizard King into an approximation of the iconic frontman. A pair of squeaky snakeskin slacks, and jug of cheap Californian wine to swig from, completed the ensemble. Although taken off the market when the great man died in 1971, Jim Morrison beard/wigs sets do occasionally come up on eBay.
Little wonder then that the authenticity that some newly-discovered footage of Morrison – to be included in When You’re Strange, a new cinema documentary about the insobrietous would-be shaman – has been questioned. Is it the genuinely hirsute Jimbo seen in the frame? Or a Morrison look-alike sporting prefabricated face fur? Judge for yourself at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8608139.stm.
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- Siemens closes down last solar energy business after failing to sell June 17, 2013German engineering firm Siemens is closing down its last solar energy business, thereby calling off a seven month search during which it failed to find a buyer.
- Huawei wants to crack smarphone market with Ascend P6 June 17, 2013Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei introduced the world's slimmest smartphone - Ascend P6, underlining the company’s ambition to compete with Apple and Samsung.
- HMS Queen Elizabeth nears completion June 16, 2013The final section of the HMS Queen Elizabeth has left BAE Systems's shipyard at Scotstoun in Glasgow, bound for Rosyth in Fife, where the final assembly will commence.
- Chinese fastest supercomputer beats the US June 17, 2013
