‘Weird and wonderful’ fans mourn Jim Morrison in Paris, 50 years on

The Doors frontman died on 3 July 1971, but to the pilgrims by his grave, his charisma remains undimmed

Under a grey and menacing sky, fans gathered at Paris's Pere Lachaise cemetery on Saturday to pay tribute to 1960s rock singer Jim Morrison on the 50th anniversary of his sudden death.

They came despite the threatened - and eventually real - downpour to lay flowers on the stone grave that has been a place of pilgrimage to the Doors frontman for half a century.