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The story begins in 1969, on an exceptionally hot night in an overcrowded concert hall in Miami. An exceptionally drunk Jim Morrison, slurring and screaming, stops singing "Touch Me," and what happens next destroys the Doors' meteoric career.

Forty years later, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has successfully obtained a pardon for the long-dead singer on public indecency charges. Florida's Clemency Board unanimously voted to grant the pardon today, according to The Associated Press.

Crist had said Morrison most likely never dropped his pants and exposed himself to a packed, screaming audience at the Coconut Grove's Dinner Key Auditorium.

"I just don't think there is sufficient evidence in the file or on the record -- no photos or video -- that would indicate that the alleged act occurred," Crist said, according to CNN. "My heart bleeds for [Morrison] and his family."

Nonetheless, the talented but tormented Morrison was convicted, in a highly publicized trial, of indecent exposure and public profanity. The hard-living, hard-drinking singer was sentenced to six months in jail. He was still appealing that verdict when he was found dead in a Paris bathtub in 1971.

He was 27 years old. The cause of death was listed as cardiac arrest. His 67th birthday would have been Wednesday.

Former band mates and fans have been petitioning Crist, a Doors fan whose term ends next month, for clemency since 2007.

The band's career essentially died on that hot March night. The Doors were late coming onstage because Morrison was so drunk, members have said. The concert lasted only an hour. Fans stormed the stage, and the music stopped. "Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute!" Morrison yelled, according to audio of the concert posted by NPR.

What was supposed to be a 20-city national tour was canceled after Miami police arrested Morrison for allegedly simulating a naked sexual act onstage.

"It ruined their career," Doors manager Bill Siddons told NPR. "It ruined Jim's life. He never really recovered from it. He really stopped caring about that work anymore and, in fact, retired shortly thereafter."

Band members have long maintained that the incident never happened. "I think it was a mass hallucination," keyboardist Ray Manzarek says."He told the audience he was going to do it. And I think they saw it. They saw what they needed to see on a strange, hot Southern night."

But the clemency drive is not without critics, including Morrison's widow.

Patricia Kennealy Morrison, in a letter to Crist, called the effort silly, saying her former husband "would hate, loathe, detest and despise the whole idea," CNN reported. "He would think it is yet another pathetic attempt by the state of Florida to use him for its own cheap and cynical, publicity-hungry purposes."

There are still fans who attended the concert who insist Morrison did expose himself.

"He actually unzipped and pulled his pants down a little bit, enough where you can see everything," 56-year-old Lee Winer of the Bay Area told the AP. "I can still picture it like it was yesterday."

Helene Davis of Miami was an 18-year-old with front-row tickets that night. Morrison was playing with his belt and teasing the audience. Davis and her friend were caught up in the frenzy and eagerly awaited the unwrapping of their idol.

"We were watching and waiting because it was obvious that's where he was going with it," Davis said. "I just remembered thinking, 'Yes, it's going to happen! It's going happen! It's going to happen!'

"And it never did."