Bill Siddons Bill Siddons Bill Siddons (born 1948) is an American music manager, best known for managing the Doors from 1968 to 1972. Siddons began his career as a teenage roadie with the Doors while attending Cal State Long Beach and six months later was asked to be the manager of the band in 1968. Siddons had this to say about his initial meeting with Jim Morrison: "So what was my first impression of Jim? He scared me to death." When Morrison died in Paris on July 3, 1971, Pamela Courson (Morrison's girlfriend) immediately contacted Siddons. He flew to Paris and arranged
Jim Morrison Hinton in his book "Celtic Crossroads: The Art of Van Morrison": "Jim Morrison learned quickly from his near namesake's stagecraft, his apparent recklessness, his air of subdued menace, the way he would improvise poetry to a rock beat, even his habit of crouching down by the bass drum during instrumental breaks." On the final night, the two Morrisons and their two bands jammed together on "Gloria." In November 1966, Morrison and the Doors produced a promotional film for "Break on Through (To the Other Side)", which was their first single release. The film featured the four members of the group