Famed photographer Kate Simon has countless tales to tell from a five-decade career in which she captured a treasure trove of iconic images featuring the likes of Bob Marley, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones and David Bowie.
But a chance encounter with Jim Morrison before her career even started may be her best story of all.
Simon, in a recent podcast interview on “WTF With Marc Maron,” recounted the time she met The Doors frontman in Paris two months before his death, in 1971.
“During that year, I met Jim Morrison and got him to help me write my term paper for ‘Long Day’s Journey into Night,’” Simon told Maron, quickly and matter-of-factly before the host could interrupt her.
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