Paying tribute at one of rock's most enduring shrines, hundreds of fans pressed around the Paris grave of the Doors cult singer Jim Morrison yesterday, 30 years after drug and drink excess claimed his life.
On alert for the trouble that has marred previous anniversaries, French security guards hovered as ageing hippies and teenage fans laid wreaths at his plot in Pere Lachaise cemetery.
But with alcohol and music now banned there - and not a whiff of marijuana - the mood was more that of an ordinary family funeral than a late 1960s `happening.'