NP: How to explain Jim Morrison to your children

[Bandwraith at aol.com]

I have a friend who's a lawyer and does not read fiction.  He's a 
fanatical Yankee fan- into the biz as much as the ball- and, so,
I tried to get him to try DeLillo's Underworld, at least Pafko at
the Wall, figuring the N.Y. baseball/history tie in, but it was no go.
-Frustrating, because he is a big reader of history and biography
and I know he would love it.

Inspite of this, I know that if I were to give him a copy of Ray
Manzarek's new novel: The Poet in Exile, an apparently thinly
disguised projection of Jim Morrison's future if he had not
really died in Paris, which probably sucks, he would at least
start it, and probably finish it.

Why is this? I ask myself. What was it about Morrison that
captured the imagination of so many teenage boys of that era?
Manzarek, b/t/w feels that Stone's movie was crap and 
completely misrepresented Morrison and the Doors. Needless
to say, my friend enjoyed the film.