Ammon News - Rock 'n' roll icon Jim Morrison, a towering figure of the 1960s psychedelic music scene, will have a central Paris footbridge named after him, the city has decided.

The grave of The Doors frontman in the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris is already a magnet for nostalgic rock fans, who pay their respects in such numbers that the cemetery has put up barriers around the American singer's final resting place.

Morrison, who moved to the French capital a few months before he died in July 1971, "made Paris the location for his last inspirations", said Laurence Patrice, a senior city official and sponsor of the footbridge idea that was adopted by the council this week.

The bridge crosses the Arsenal, a basin near the Bastille in the centre of the capital, only a short walk from the bohemian Marais neighbourhood where Morrison last lived. AFP