Jim Morrison may have been one of rock’s most unpredictable frontmen, but he had an interest that wasn’t widely publicized during his life. The Doors legend was known for his love of art, poetry and music, but he was also apparently a fan of Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip.
Two years before his death, Morrison extended an unusual invitation to the young voice actor who brought Schulz’s Linus Van Pelt character to life on television. It became a surprising meeting of two vastly different corners of 1960s pop culture that’s hard to imagine decades later.
Christopher Shea was just seven years old when he voiced Linus in A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965 and eight years old when he did it again for It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
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A few years later, Christopher Shea went to summer camp, where he met an older kid who was a Doors superfan. His brother, Stephen, recounted the story in a 2014 interview with Noblemania.
“My brother was born in 1958, and he did the [Charlie Brown] Christmas special,” Shea shared. “Around 1969, he went to a camp called Gold Arrow or something like that. There, he ended up meeting another camper who was about three years older, Danny Sugerman. Turns out Danny was the president of the Doors Fan Club.”
Shea noted that Sugerman was “ahead of his time” and had “a fair amount of personal interaction with Jim Morrison.”
“He told Jim of this kid he had met who was the voice of Linus,” Shea continued. “Jim thought that was really cool—Linus was his favorite character and he said he wanted to meet this guy. Danny called my brother, and through my dad they actually met and went to a Doors concert in Long Beach. My dad got a photography pass and shot all these photos. I have all these unseen photographs. All the people in that bizarre ‘Jim Morrison meets Linus’ have since passed away. I love this connection between Peanuts and the Doors.”
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Sugerman had made his way into the Doors’ inner circle after first seeing the band play live at age 12. He began showing up at the Doors’ office, so the bandmates hired him to answer fan mail for them.
“He was very persevering,” Doors guitarist Robby Krieger told The Los Angeles Times in 2005. “We’d tell him to leave and he’d always come back…. He was just this crazy kid who really loved the Doors.”
Sugerman eventually worked his way up to managing the Doors.
As for Morrison’s Peanuts obsession, it took a strange turn at some point. According to the Lelands auction site, Morrison, who died in 1971 at 27, once created signed original artwork using Peanuts character cut-outs with his own handwritten dialogue that was not family-friendly. The X-rated Peanuts art sold for over $4400 at auction.
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