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'Enchanted in the mind'At the time of his 1968 New York portrait session with Yale Joel, Morrison and his Doors bandmates had released two albums, and were about to record a third, "Waiting for the Sun." As their popularity grew, 33-year-old LIFE writer Fred Powledge aimed to "dig" the weird but compelling music his 9-year-old daughter was into. "The most satanic thing about The Doors is Jim Morrison," Powledge wrote. "Morrison is 24 years old ... and he appears -- in public and on his records -- to be moody, temperamental, enchanted in the mind and extremely stoned on something." |