As the Doors get more and more famous, Jim Morrison rides the coattails of his band to ever greater infamy. His run-ins with Ed Sullivan and Andy Warhol are the stuff of legend, but his more dangerous run-ins with the police and with a telephone pole illustrate a widening divide between what is real and what is fantasy.

Sources: No One Here Gets Out Alive, by Jerry Hopkins & Danny Sugerman The Lizard King: The Essential Jim Morrison, by Jerry Hopkins Becoming Elektra: The True Story of Jac Holzman’s Visionary Record Label, by Mick Houghton The Doors Interactive Chronological History