They came together 60 years ago in Venice, California: Jim Morrison, a poet in leather pants, backed by Ray Manzarek on keys, Robby Krieger on guitar, and John Densmore on drums. The Doors soon got ...
The first time Jim Morrison yelled at his Doors bandmates, it was in 1968, and the other three musicians committed what to Morrison amounted to a cardinal sin. They had arranged for one of their songs ...
The fourth annual American Music Honors, put on by the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music, took place Saturday at ...
Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt and Doors drummer John Densmore perform “Light My Fire” as others are honored at the Springsteen ...
The Doors will finally release the previously unheard "Paris Blues" — described as the band’s "last known unissued studio recording" — as part of a new blues-themed compilation of the same name. Paris ...
Before the Doors made a record, they developed their signature sound onstage in front of audiences. "A lot of the songs in the beginning, me or [guitarist Robby Krieger] would come in with a basic ...
The Doors haven’t put out an album of original material since the 1970s, but that hasn’t stopped them from returning to the Billboard charts. The rock band is back on the weekly rankings with a ...
It certainly wasn’t The Doors’ biggest hit, as it was only released as a B-side to a single that flamed out quickly. And it wasn’t all that emblematic of the band’s signature sound, as it largely ...
The Doors' Strange Days 1967: A Work in Progress debuts on Billboard’s Vinyl Albums and Top Album Sales charts, earning the band another win. The Doors L-R Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Ray Manzarek ...
In the summer of 1967, The Doors burst open onto the Billboard Hot 100 with their chart-topping signature tune “Light My Fire.” The classic tune, from the band’s self-titled debut album, spent three ...
J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...