PARIS (Reuters) - The man in charge of preserving France's most famous cemetery wishes that Jim Morrison would just go away.
The former Doors frontman, who died aged 27 in 1971, is the main draw at the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, eclipsing other famous denizens like Irish writer Oscar Wilde, Polish-born composer Frederic Chopin and French singer Edith Piaf.
For historian Christian Charlet, who is responsible for the upkeep of the graveyard's 70,000 tombs, the crowds who come to commune with their deceased idol are nothing but an expensive headache.
"We would like to kick out Morrison because we don't want him, he causes too many problems," he told Reuters in an interview. "If we could get rid of him, we would do it straight away, but unfortunately the Americans don't want him back."
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