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Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, music critic and widow of Jim Morrison, dies

2021-08-05T17:23:38.734Z


DISAPPEARANCE - The journalist, a pioneer in the rock world, was editor-in-chief of several magazines in the 1970s. After the singer's death, she notably made a career in science fiction literature.


She was a prolific author, in love with rock 'n' roll and Jim Morrison.

Patricia Kennealy-Morrison died on July 21 at the age of 75.

She is one of the pioneers of music criticism, long closed to women, and has published numerous works of science fiction.

Her place in the world of music was sealed the day she interviewed Jim Morrison in January 1969. The beginning of a romance, concluded with a Celtic ceremony that will be immortalized in a sequence from

Oliver Stone's

film

The Doors

, in 1991. The author appeared in the film as a priest and administered the pagan marriage.

Read also: Jim Morrison, unquiet days in Paris told on Arte

In 1970, Patricia Kennealy-Morrison wrote in

Jazz & Pop

magazine

, of

which she was editor-in-chief:

“rock is just another patriarchal world filled with chauvinistic men, with the only difference that the movement itself is smart enough to change from within

”.

“Patricia, as a woman, is the embodiment of pride and freedom,

” her colleague, Ellen Sander, told the

Los Angeles Times

. They roamed the rock circuit together at a time when women were still few in number.

Patricia Kennealy was born on March 4, 1946, in Brooklyn, New York.

She graduated from Harpur University with a journalism degree before moving to Manhattan, "which

she never left again,

" according to her brother.

She lived not far from Fillmore East, Bill Graham's club, where a whole generation of rockers began.

Read also: In the Parisian footsteps of Jim Morrison

Back then, music was tearing down walls, creating a sense of community,

” she wrote in her 1992 book,

Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison.

It's the time of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane ... And of his meeting with one of the most powerful figures of the movement: Jim Morrison. “

The moment I shake his hand, I feel a very strong electricity. I knew right away that he was different, that I was too, that it was no longer an interviewer-author or a groupie-star relationship. It is about something different, more real ... ”,

she recalled in her biography.

Read also:

Jim Morrison and the lame devil

, by Michel Embareck: journey to the end of life

Less than two years later, Jim Morrison died of an overdose.

Were they still together then?

Fans are torn over the issue.

The journalist assures us that it is.

In 1979, she changed her last name to Kennealy-Morrison and will continue to fight for recognition of her talent as a journalist, eclipsed by her relationship with a "star".

She said she was tired of "

the condescension of all these men, who used to think that we are only groupies a little better connected than the others, and who are surprised to hear me talk to them about the influence of John Cage, Django Reinhardt or even cinema on their work

”.

To read also: Jim Morrison: the shattering declaration of Marianne Faithfull

After Jim Morrison's death, Patricia Kennealy-Morrison worked for RCA and Columbia Records, then went into advertising.

In the 1980s, she published her first works of science fiction, strongly inspired by Celtic legends.

Source: lefigaro

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