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The Doors: Velvet Menace and Sudden Rage

Mat Snow, Q, November 1990

Oblique visionaries, pioneering musicians, "missionaries of apocalyptic sex", The Doors cast a giant shadow forward over the new wave music and have come to symbolize the dark night of the modern American soul. Mat Snow revisits their back catalogue.

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