Down on Us is a low budget 1984 movie about a US government plot to assassinate 1960s rock stars Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix, using an elite force of killers.

The movie does not use any of the original songs of the artists portrayed due to high royalty fees.

Author F. Paul Wilson used a similar premise in his 1987 short story "The Years the Music Died."

The story of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin, and how their message for their generation made them targets of a US government plot.

The review read, in part, "Pic's only revelation is the claim that Morrison faked his own death in order to regain his privacy".