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It was 35 years ago today that Jim Morrison was found dead in a hotel bathtub, cementing his live-fast-die-young legacy.

Since the singer's death, Morrison's Paris grave site has become an extremely popular tourist destination, famous for being continually defaced with graffiti reading things like "Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll" and "Morrison is God." Meanwhile, the bust pictured was stolen in 1988 and replaced with a flat stone, and in 1991, on the 20th anniversary of Morrison's death, unruly mourners were dispersed by means of police tear gas.


We can't help but think that the Lizard King would consider this sort of vandalism in sync with the rock 'n' roll spirit. It inspired us to search out the graves of other entertainers whose messages live on in their burial markers.


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Rock N' Roll Spirits

    Rick James The Superfreak's Buffalo, NY headstone bears his own image in tight pants clutching a guitar.

    GG Allin The punk rocker is as subversive in death as he was in life -- his tombstone reads "Live Fast Die" and "Rock N Roll Terrorist."

    Charles Bukowski. The manliest poet to ever live has the epitaph "Don't Try."

    "Dimebag" Darrell Abbot Dimebag's death was tragic and untimely, but his Texas headstone awesomely reads "He came to rock/ And rocked like no other."

    Bob Marley The reggae master was buried with in his own mausoleum in Jamaica with his favorite guitar, a red Fender Stratocaster.

    Bette Davis She wasn't exactly rock n roll, but Bette Davis' epitaph -- "She did it the hard way" -- is pretty badass.

    Billy Wilder The Academy-Award winning motion picture writer, director and producer ("Some Like it Hot," "The Apartment") exited with a joke.

    Karl Marx The founder of modern socialism watches over his final resting place like a stern grandpa, over the inscription "Workers of all lands unite."

    Dee Dee Ramone A founding member of The Ramones, Dee Dee's epitaph -- "O.K. ... I gotta go now" -- is as short and sweet as one of his songs.

    Edgar Allan Poe The headstone at the poet's original burial place reads, "Quoth the Raven, Nevermore."