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Who is Mr. Mojo Risin? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is it truth that Jim Morrison left the States with a fake passport, under this imaginary name, in reality an anagrammatism of his real one? And that he is still alive?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But all the legends, such as Morrison, are accompanied with myths about their life and death. And the Doors’ millions of fans couldn’t ever accept that Morrison died so young, so beautiful. And they always want to believe that “Mr Mojo Risin” is not dead but alive, maybe on a remote sunny tropical island along with his beloved Pamela, drinking whiskey and smoking weed, as he used to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It sounds peculiar but the other Doors’ members found out what “Mr Mojo Risin” means after the recordings of LA Woman album, when Morrison was already dead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
LA Woman was recorded in the city of angels during the first months of 1971 and was released on April 19 of the same year. It had reached number 9 on Billboard chart, while both singles of the album, Love her madly and Riders on the storm, reached top 20. A few months later, Jim was found dead in Paris, where he was with Pamela. He was only 27 years old. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many Doors’ fans consider LA Woman the band’s best album. LA Woman is, indeed, a great album, maybe an all time TOP-100. But, in my opinion, the first, raw, ripe and very personal homonymous band’s album is better than LA Woman. In fact, it is a unique diamond, only comparable with Pink Floyd’s The dark side of the moon and the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s lonely heart’s club band. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let’s see the most important songs of the album:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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“I had money, and I had none”<\/em> Jim Morrison sang at the first track of the album, the funky “Changeling”<\/strong>, a song referring to the homonymous and legendary human-like creature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Ray Manzarek wrote about it, trying to explain Morrison’s words: “The lyrics are prophetic – I’ve lived uptown. I’ve lived downtown, but I’ve never been so broke that I couldn’t leave town.- He’d lived on the beach and in the hills. He’d had money and been broke. He’d had his L.A. adventure, and he was out”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Rolling Stone critic Narendra Kusnur considered The changelling one of Morrison’s 10 most underrated songs, while Elektra Records president called it “a tribute to James Brown”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n