Jim Morrison’s recruitment video for FSU

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Here’s a pre-famous, pre-fat and pre-dead Jim Morrison appearing in a 1964 ad for Florida State University. Turns out Jimbo went to FSU for a couple of years before transferring to UCLA, where he traded in his clean-cut image to become one of the most decadent rock stars of his era (no small accomplishment). Had Morrison been exposed to a good Christian school, like the one Russell Crowe used to advocate, maybe history would have been different.

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