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The Doors: The Morrison Legacy

Report and Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 23 December 1978

JIM MORRISON'S body may lie a-moulderin' in his grave but his soul goes marching on. ...

The Doors: John Densmore

Interview by William Higham, New Musical Express, 1991

THE DOORS avalanche begins here! Word Up corners the band's drummer and chronicler JOHN DENSMORE, reviews his book and checks out an investigation into Morrison's ...

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The Doors (1983)

Interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages audio, 1 November 1983

Messrs. Manzarek, Krieger and Densmore – in London for a Doors conference at the ICA – discuss new live album Alive, She Cried: the tracking down of the original recordings including tapes from their Roundhouse show in 1968; Danny Sugerman's new Illustrated History of the band; and what the trio are doing now... including Ray Manzarek's "jazz-rock" version of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.

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Paul Rothchild Speaks, March 1967

Book Excerpt by Paul Williams, Outlaw Blues, 1967

This interview was taped in Englewood, New Jersey, in March 1967, shortly after the release of the first Doors album, which Paul Rothchild produced. Last ...

Peter, Paul & Mary, the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield: Valley Music Centre, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Tracy Thomas, New Musical Express, 4 March 1967

P, P & M protest ...

The Doors: Ondine, New York NY

Live Review by Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 23 March 1967

OPENING NIGHT at Ondines, that Queensboro Bridge of the soul, vast enough to encompass local beasts of prey, an occasional Rolling Stone on holiday, and ...

New Albums From The Doors, Roy Orbison, Sonny & Cher et al

Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 22 April 1967

Orbison Gibson album — a fine LP but could be depressing... ...

The Doors: The Doors (Elektra)

Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 22 April 1967

IT'S ALWAYS interesting to see what they're up to on America's wild West Coast and the Doors are a well-talked-of group from over there. Unfortunately ...

The Doors: A Discussion of a Doors Song

Essay by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, May 1967

VERY FEW PEOPLE have the balls to talk about "rock and roll" anymore. Revolver made it difficult. Between the Buttons, Smile, and the Doors lp ...

The Rolling Stones: Got Live If You Want It! (London); The Doors: The Doors (Elektra)

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, May 1967

BOLTS OF LIGHTNING ...

The Doors: The Doors (Elektra)

Review by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 13 May 1967

THE RAVING R&B musical content of their first single, 'Break On Through To The Other Side', falls well short of the high standard the Doors ...

The Doors: Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 1967

Doors Rattle Hinges at Whisky a Go Go ...

New Albums from the Doors, Country Joe & the Fish et al

Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 1967

The Doors: A Fascinating New West Coast Sound ...

Platter Chatter: New Albums from Jefferson Airplane, The Byrds, The Doors et al

Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, July 1967

SURREALISTIC PILLOW will make anyone with good musical taste a Jefferson Airplane admirer. A beautiful blend of vocal and instrumental harmonies flows through everything this ...

Interview with the Doors

Interview by Greg Shaw, Mojo Navigator, August 1967

MOJO NAVIGATOR: You just played in New York and Los Angeles and San Francisco. What are the differences you've found in the audiences in the ...

The Doors Are Different, Part 1

Interview by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, September 1967

PHRASES LIKE "the hottest group in town" or "everybody's talking about..." or "an exciting new sound" are used so indiscriminately that any editor with a ...

Jeffersons, Doors are Tops

Profile by Tracy Thomas, New Musical Express, 2 September 1967

LET ME TELL you about the two groups which are currently the most popular in America: the Doors and Jefferson Airplane. Both have been playing ...

The Doors

Report by Danny Fields, Hullabaloo, October 1967

It was a different New York they returned to this time, and the underground they remembered seemed almost as remote as the subways in which ...

The Doors Are Different, Part 2

Interview by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, October 1967

We hope a lot of Hit Parader readers have been responsible for the good fortune the Doors are currently enjoying. The success of their first album and ...

Loraine Alterman on Pop Records: The Shattering Impact of the Doors

Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 5 November 1967

THE DOORS, with Jim Morrison singing lead in his urgent, compelling voice, lead you into the strange world of their music after the freaky album ...

New Wave USA

Report by Nick Jones, Melody Maker, 25 November 1967

NICK JONES SORTS OUT THE NEW U.S. SOUNDS ...

Captain Beefheart — electric magic!

Report by Hugh Nolan, Disc and Music Echo, 6 January 1968

CAUTION: ELECTRICITY can be hazardous to health — but Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band are as Safe As Milk. And London is due for ...

The Doors: Strange Days (Elektra)

Review by uncredited writer, Disc and Music Echo, 13 January 1968

Title Track; 'You're Lost Little Girl'; 'Love Me Two Times'; 'Unhappy Girl'; 'Horse Latitudes'; 'Moonlight Drive'; 'People Are Strange'; 'My Eyes Have Seen You'; 'I ...

The Doors by the Doors

Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 27 January 1968

JAZZ IS DYING By Robby Krieger ...

Platter Chatter: Albums from the Doors, Sopwith Camel, Beach Boys, Procol Harum and Pink Floyd

Review by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, February 1968

STRANGE DAYS, The Doors' second album, is another cauldron of energy, excitement and improvisation. (That's Review Number 34, Ray.) ...

Strange Days with the Doors

Interview by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, February 1968

"We want the world and we want it now!" say the Doors, who open wide for HULLABALOO. They hail from the West and are definitely ...

The Doors: Strange Days (Elektra)

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, March 1968

COMPARED TO the Beatles and the Stones, the Doors are minor leaguers, very talented, very promising, but not quite There yet. Compared to nearly everybody ...

Jim Morrison is Sex Symbol

Profile by Mike Jahn, Pop Scene Service, 6 April 1968

MORRISON STOOD at the microphone, left foot firmly planted on its base, both hands holding it to his lips like a 7-year-old gnawing a Baby ...

16 Hours of Rock in Dismal Surroundings

Report by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 20 May 1968

SIXTEEN HOURS of the same thing gets to be an enervating experience even if one is a super-rock fan and many of the nation's outstanding ...

The Doors, the Chambers Brothers, Steppenwolf: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 1968

THE DOORS' concert at the Hollywood Bowl Friday night should have been an exciting event, the high point of the career of a local rock ...

The Doors: Waiting for the Sun (Elektra EKS- 74024)

Review by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 1968

The Doors Find Love ...

Jim Morrison: Is He The American Mick Jagger?

Profile by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 3 August 1968

LOOK OUT, England! Jim Morrison is coming to get you! ...

The Doors: The Shaman As Superstar

Report and Interview by Richard Goldstein, New York, 5 August 1968

"Morrison's eyes glow as he discusses the Apollonian-Dionysian struggle for life's force. It's an easy guess which side he's on." "The shaman... he was a man ...

The Doors/Jefferson Airplane: The Roundhouse, London

Live Review by Derek Grant, New Musical Express, September 1968

THE RUMOURS were flying. Doors drummer John Densmore was missing. The groups were arguing as to who would go on first. There was some speculation ...

The Doors: The Doors (Elektra); Strange Days (Elektra); Waiting for the Sun (Elektra)

Review by Miles, International Times, 6 September 1968

Jim Morrison (Vocal); Ray Manzarek (Organ, Piano, Bass); Robby Krieger (Guitar); John Densmore (Drums). ...

Jim Morrison's Presley Scene

Report and Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, 21 September 1968

IT WAS worrying enough to be asked to go along and interview Jim Morrison of the Doors. Worrying because stars who make a speciality of ...

Albums from the Band, Cream, Country Joe & the Fish, Donovan, Randy Newman, the Incredible String Band, Phil Ochs, and the Doors

Review by Paul Nelson, Hullabaloo, October 1968

HERE WE are, talking to ourselves again, still waiting for the new releases by the Rolling Stones, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Doors, the Byrds, ...

An Interview with Jim Morrison and The Doors

Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Hullabaloo, October 1968

THE DOORS' OFFICE is in a brightly painted yellow stucco building set back off Santa Monica Boulevard. Located over an antique shop, it boasts a ...

20 Revolutionary Singles, as requested

Letter by Geoffrey Cannon, unpublished, 28 October 1968

25 FLORENCE TERRACE, FALMOUTH, CORNWALL TELEPHONE: FALMOUTH 1840 23rd October 1968 ...

An Interview with Jim Morrison and The Doors, Pt 2

Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Hullabaloo, November 1968

Q: Are you doing anything with films at the moment? ...

An Interview with Jim Morrison and The Doors, Pt 3: A Doors Rap

Interview by Jacoba Atlas, Hullabaloo, December 1968

Jim, Ray, Robby, and John rap about the similarities and differences between rock and jazz, commercialism, Waiting for the Sun, singles, and the Jim Morrison ...

The Doors: Speaking Out, Their Manager, Bill Siddons...

Interview by uncredited writer, Flip, December 1968

Who knows the guys in a group better than their manager? He works with them, knows their secrets and their worries and often practically lives ...

The Explosive Jim Morrison

Report and Interview by Mike Grant, Rave, December 1968

Read RAVE'S Mike Grants report on the man behind the exploding sound of the Doors, and find out why Jim Morrison has been called the ...

1968: The Shaken City Walls

Overview by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 24 December 1968

"AN ELECTRIC caterwauling of power... burning it, flashing it, whirling it down some arc of consciousness, the sound screaming up to a climax of vibrations ...

The Doors: Can They Still 'Light My Fire'?

Profile and Interview by Michael Lydon, The New York Times, 19 January 1969

"PLAY 'LIGHT MY FIRE’!" "Yeah, ‘Light My Fire.’" Out of the vastness of the Los Angeles Forum, its 18,000 seats filled on a December Saturday ...

The Doors: Madison Square Garden, New York NY

Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 25 January 1969

20,000 Hear Doors Give Rock Concert In a Packed Garden ...

Tim Hardin: Hobnobbin' With The Superstars

Report by Tom Nolan, Rolling Stone, 19 April 1969

LOS ANGELES – The Chateau Marmont is one of the nicest places and reasons to stay in Los Angles. It retains the charm of old ...

Column: Around About, And Then Some

Report by Anne Moore, World Countdown News, 13 June 1969

I HAVE JUST attended a happening, one that in a year or less will become another legend in the cycle of Jim Morrison. The event ...

The Doors, Lonnie Mack, Elvin Bishop: Cow Palace, Daly City SF

Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 26 July 1969

Morrison Closes Doors on Fans ...

Doors' Soft Parade leads US underground LP releases

Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 13 September 1969

THE DOORS: The Soft Parade — 'Tell All The People'; 'Touch Me'; 'Shaman's Blues'; 'Do It'; 'Easy Ride'; 'Wild Child'; 'Runnin' Blue'; 'Wishful Sinful'; 'The ...

New albums from the Doors, Country Joe, Johnny Cash, Creedence, CS&N and Blind Faith

Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 16 September 1969

Finding a new faith: GEOFFREY CANNON reviews pop music ...

The Doors: The Soft Parade (Elektra)

Review by Miller Francis Jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 20 October 1969

"Callin' on the gods" ...

The Doors: Felt Forum, New York NYC

Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 19 January 1970

The Doors Draw Active Audience. Rock Group's Singer Has to Be Saved From Fans. ...

The Doors, Commander Cody, Cold Blood: Winterland, San Francisco CA

Live Review by Mark Leviton, Van Nuys Valley News, 20 February 1970

I HAD THE good fortune of being present at Winterland in San Francisco before the Doors came out for their Long Beach concert, which I ...

The Doors: Morrison Hotel (Elektra EKS 75007 American copy) ****

Review by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 28 March 1970

POSSIBLY THE best LP the Doors have made, this is split up the middle in it's musical categories. Side one is hard rock from the ...

The Isle of Wight Festival: Five Days That Rocked Britain

Report by Mark Plummer, Michael Watts, Chris Welch, Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 5 September 1970

MM's Richard Williams, Chris Welch, Michael Watts and Mark Plummer present a five-page report on an amazing weekend of music and other scenes... ...

The Isle of Wight Festival: 5 Days of Peace, Music and Love

Report by Mick Farren, uncredited writer, International Times, 10 September 1970

2011 note: this report on the 1970 IoW festival is led off by Mick Farren but includes contributions by other, unnamed IT writers. The title ...

Over His Dead Body: Memories of Jim Morrison

Obituary by Al Aronowitz, New York Post, 1971

WE ALL MAKE our deals with the devil. I suppose Jim Morrison must have realized that he made his. Listen to Jac Holzman, the president ...

The Doors: Thirteen

Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, March 1971

THE UNFORTUNATE situation epitomized here is that of the record company which has to resort to the "greatest hits" ruse when a band doesn't meet ...

Jim Morrison, Dec. 1943-July 1971

Obituary by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 17 July 1971

AMERICA DIDN'T have a Jagger. It did have Jim Morrison... the first major American male sex symbol since James Dean. ...

Jim Morrison: This is the End, Beautiful Friend

Obituary by Al Aronowitz, Melody Maker, 17 July 1971

Al Aronowitz on the death of Jim Morrison ...

The Doors: L.A. Woman (Elektra EKS.75011; £2.15)

Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 24 July 1971

CONTROVERSIAL DOORS ...

The Doors: LA Woman (Elektra K 42090)

Review by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 24 July 1971

MORE HEAVY organ rock with dripping sex from the cultured voice of the late Jimmy Morrison. ...

Why Manager Kept Silent About Jim Morrison's Sudden Death

Interview by Ann Moses, New Musical Express, 24 July 1971

Ann Moses in Hollywood ...

The Doors: L.A. Woman (Elektra)

Review by Hugh Nolan, International Times, 26 August 1971

TITLE TRACK sounds like a typical Ballard fantasy — 'Woman viewed as linear plan of the City' or something — a beautifully imperceptible change from ...

The End of Jim Morrison

Obituary by Al Aronowitz, Fusion, 17 September 1971

WE ALL MAKE our deals with the devil. I suppose Jim Morrison must have realized that he made his. Listen to Jac Holzman, the president ...

The Doors: "Out here on the perimeter there are no stars"

Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 20 March 1972

Update, 2019. Yes, folks are still listening to the Doors. An extract from their album LA Woman, mentioned in the review of Jim Morrison's lyrics ...

Elektra: The House That Jac Built

Interview by Loraine Alterman, Melody Maker, 23 September 1972

The story of Elektra, one of rock's most influential labels. As told to Loraine Alterman by founder JAC HOLZMAN ...

The Doors Come Full Circle

Review by John Tobler, Let It Rock, October 1972

ROCK JOURNALISTS ARE not born. Probably they’re not made either – it doesn’t work to tell someone that they’re a rock writer, although people do. ...

The Doors: When The Music's Over

Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 13 October 1973

HELPING HIMSELF to one of my British cigarettes and inhaling deeply, Ray Manzarek coldly and without emotion spoke about why The Doors finally decided to ...

The Doors: An Interview with Ray Manzarek

Interview by Steven Rosen, Sounds, 22 December 1973

SR: THE BREAKING up of the Doors was kind of a mysterious circumstance and I'm sure not many people know really what happened. ...

Jim Morrison: Remembering Morrison

Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Fusion, June 1974

THE rock world was still staggering from the back-to-back deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin when they were suddenly and mysteriously joined in pop ...

Pam Morrison: A Final Curtain on Her Affair with Life

Report by Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 6 June 1974

LOS ANGELES — "Pamela was Jim's other half," said ex-Door Ray Manzarek. "The two of them were a perfect combination; I never knew another person ...

Butts Band: Double Doors Get Jammed

Interview by Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 15 August 1974

LOS ANCELES — Already they've split up. The five-piece Butts Band is now back to its original twosome, looking for more members. Drummer John Densmore ...

The Life And Death Of The Butts Band

Report and Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, December 1974

DEFUNCT GROUPS are not normally my stock in trade, or that of ZigZag in general, but very occasionally the opportunity arises to learn something of ...

The End Is Always Near: Dread, Drunkenness and The Doors, Pt. 1

Retrospective by Lester Bangs, unpublished, 1975

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF the Doors should not be underestimated; it has been too often already. When you consider that they represented, in the positivist context ...

The End Is Always Near: Dread, Drunkenness and The Doors, Pt. 2

Retrospective by Lester Bangs, unpublished, 1975

HE BEGAN, like all drunks who have arrived at this stage of the movie, to get in trouble. Havoc on planes, arrested in airports. Pulling ...

The Doors: Strange Days

Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 4 January 1975

WAS THIS ALBUM WEIRD? You bet yer snakeskin mitts it was. ...

The Doors (part 1): The Hunting of the Lizard King

Retrospective by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 27 September 1975

Visionary? Poet? Revolutionary? Or was he simply a narcissist with a drink problem? Either way he created a considerable legend. In the first of a ...

The Doors (part 2): Incident in Miami

Retrospective by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 4 October 1975

...and JIM MORRISON'S FINAL DECAY. Fame may have made him crazier but the money hardly affected him – all it meant was he could buy ...

The Doors Consumers' Guide, Part 1

Discography by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 4 October 1975

"There are things that are known and things that are unknown; in between are the doors." ...

The Doors Consumers' Guide, Part 2

Guide by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 11 October 1975

"This is the strangest life I've ever known" ...

The Doors: The Best Of (Elektra)**

Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 30 October 1976

DOES THE WORLD honestly need another Doors compilation? The policy makers at Elektra appear to think so. And they could be right. But The Best ...

The Doors: "I Looked Into Her Eyes And Pretty Much Felt That Jim Was Dead"

Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, July 1977

FOR SOME YEARS now, I've had this big problem. One which often leads to incredulity in those to whom I explain it. It concerns my ...

Danny Fields: The Fields Connection

Interview by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 9 July 1977

The Doors, MC5, Iggy & The Stooges, John Cale, Lou Reed, Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers and The Ramones — without them the last ten years of ...

Jim Morrison: An American Prayer (Elektra 5E-502)*****

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 2 December 1978

Flashes from the archives of oblivion (Thank you, Roy Harper) ...

The Doors: An American Prayer

Review by Nick Tosches, Rolling Stone, 1 January 1979

WHAT JIM MORRISON wanted more than anything – more than fame, more than wealth, more than the women's wet submission that fame brought with it ...

The Doors: Stoned Immaculate

Review and Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, March 1979

"The man's been dead for seven years — or gone for seven years — and he's still causing trouble!" — Ray Manzarek ...

No One Here Gets Out Alive: The Biography Of Jim Morrison by Jerry Hopkins and Daniel Sugerman (Warner Books)

Book Review by Dave DiMartino, Creem, October 1980

Dead Pigeon On Love Street ...

Jim Morrison: Bozo Dionysus A Decade Later

Essay by Lester Bangs, Musician, August 1981

WE SEEM TO BE in the midst of a full-scale Doors Revival. It had been picking up steam for a while, but when Jerry Hopkins' ...

The Doors and Joy Division: 2 Dead Bands Still Going Strong

Essay by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 6 September 1981

TWO OF the most intriguing rock 'n' roll bands of the '80s exist on the airwaves, on vinyl and in the consciousness of fans in ...

Jim Morrison: An Hour For Magic

Book Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 12 June 1982

"BY THE TIME he left for Paris in March of 1971", Jim Morrison: An Hour for Magic tells us, "the friends he could depend on ...

Culture shock as Bob Dylan is outshone by the Boy Wonder

Review by Max Bell, The Times, 5 November 1983

Culture Club: Colour By Numbers (Virgin V2285); Bob Dylan: Infidels (CBS 25538); John Hiatt: Riding With The King (Geffen GHS4017 Import); The Doors: Alive, She ...

The Doors: Alive, She Cried

Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, January 1984

WHAT WAS that he said? "No time to wallow in the mire." Tell that to the folks who have somehow managed to turn a band ...

Billy James on Columbia, Elektra and the L.A. music industry

Interview by Richie Unterberger, unpublished, 1986

Author’s note: This was based around one of the first significant historical interviews I did. The essay wasn't published anywhere, just typed out for a ...

The Doors: Velvet Menace and Sudden Rage

Retrospective by 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 ...

James Douglas Morrison, 1943-1971

Essay by Nick Tosches, Foreword to David Dalton's 'Mr. Mojo Risin'', 1991

JERSEY CITY, June 1968. 'Hello, I Love You'. I remember not only where I was but also whom I was with when it came through ...

Jim Morrison: Last Meeting With a Fallen Star

Memoir by Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle, 1991

NEAR THE END of his 27-year life, was Jim Morrison – as depicted in Oliver Stone's new movie, The Doors – a fat, abusive, alcoholic, ...

The Doors: a profile of Jim Morrison

Profile by Simon Witter, Sky, 1991

IN THREE YEARS Jim Morrison went from being a rock icon to dying a bloated alcoholic at just 27 years old. But in that time ...

The Doors: When The Movie's Over

Report by Steven P. Wheeler, Music Connection, March 1991

Did you have a good world when you died?Enough to base a movie on?– Jim Morrison ...

Take out a Subscription to the Resurrection: Jim Morrison

Retrospective by Steve Turner, The Independent, 23 March 1991

PÈRE-LACHAISE CEMETERY is bizarre enough in itself – 100,000 sepulchres crowded into a busy Paris suburb and rolling down hillsides like an invading army from ...

John Densmore: Riders On The Storm

Book Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, April 1991

GOD PRESERVE US from brilliant pricks. John Densmore played drums alongside one in The Doors for six years and he's still attempting to recover from ...

Jim Morrison: The Anatomy Of Madness

Essay by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 13 April 1991

This year's superstar is a bloated, bearded would-be poet who died 20 years ago. SIMON REYNOLDS investigates the dark influence and deep fascination JIM MORRISON ...

Paul Rothchild: Open Doors

Retrospective and Interview by Tom Doyle, Melody Maker, 4 May 1991

As producer of nearly all of The Doors' albums, PAUL ROTHCHILD knew Morrison and the band better than anyone else. TOM DOYLE relives the invention ...

The Doors: The Doors in Concert

Review by Tom Graves, Rock & Roll Disc, Spring 1991

AS MUCH AS I would feel vindicated by a kick-ass live set by the Doors, who I have defended against some of rock criticism’s biggest ...

The Doors

Interview by Harvey Kubernik, MOJO, July 1995

Tell us about the new American Prayer. ...

The Doors: Absolutely Live (Elektra)

Review and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Harvey Kubernik, MOJO, January 1997

THOUGH IT EMERGED to mixed reviews in July 1970 – not least from the band, who thought the set middling – Absolutely Live is an ...

10 Questions for The Doors’ Ray Manzarek

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, December 1997

EVER SINCE Jim Morrison’s death there have been many Elvis-style, alive-and-well-and- pumping-gas ‘sightings’. Has it ever crossed your mind they may be right? ...

The Doors: The Doors Box Set

Review by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, December 1997

4-CD grab-bag of rarities, outtakes, live recordings and fave tracks selected by the surviving Doors ...

The Doors: Box Set

Review by Max Bell, Uncut, December 1997

History of the LA group ...

What Killed Albert Goldman? A literary X-file

Retrospective by Victor Bockris, Gadfly, July 1999

In the 1980s, Albert Goldman became the most famous and despised biographer in the world because of his biographies of Elvis Presley (Elvis, McGraw Hill, ...

The Doors Of Perception

Interview by Alan Paul, Revolver, April 2000

It's the rock legend that everyone can recite by heart, but that no one can agree on. The surviving members of the Doors and their ...

The Doors: The Lizard King's life's work digitally remastered and packaged as vinyl replicas

Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, November 2000

Strange DaysWaiting For The SunThe Soft ParadeMorrison HotelLa WomanEssential Rarities ...

Asbolutely Dead: How the Jim Morrison Industry lives on

Essay by The Rev. Al Friston, Rock's Backpages, June 2001

"Well, we’re all in the cosmic movie, you know that! That means the day you die, you gotta watch your whole life recurring eternally forever, ...

Jim Morrison: Death On The Instalment Plan

Retrospective by Dave Thompson, MOJO, September 2001

JIM MORRISON LAY IN A BATHTUB FULL OF WATER drawn from the same mystic spring that fed Brian Jones's swimming pool. The flesh over his ...

The Doors: Bright Midnight/Live In America (Elektra)

Review by Ian Penman, Uncut, September 2001

ONE BRIGHT MIDNIGHT: 2 songs from 1969 & 14 songs from 1970, a moment of magickal cusp, a genuine celebration, a true revelation, a breathtaking ...

The Doors: Dead Cat Bounce

Retrospective and Interview by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, September 2001

CITY OF LIGHT OR CITY AT NIGHT? It is 1968, maybe '69, and we are walking through the throngs of people crowding the Sunset Strip. ...

The Doors: The Scream Of The Butterfly

Retrospective and Interview by Alan Paul, Guitar World, February 2003

IGNITED BY THE success of 'Light My Fire,' the first two Doors albums introduced rock audiences to the tortured mind of Jim Morrison and his ...

Ian Astbury and the Doors: One door shuts... another door opens

Report and Interview by Tim Cooper, The Independent, 10 December 2003

When Jim Morrison died, in 1971, that was the end of the Doors. Or was it? Thirty years later, the remaining members have hired a ...

The Top 10 Psychedelic Moments in Rock

Comment by Lenny Kaye, Harp, May 2005

Mind expansion. The walls are breathing. Herewith, a personal list of a trip into the whirlpool of creation. ...

The Doors: Strange Days

Sleeve notes by Barney Hoskyns, Rhino Records, 2006

WHO, HAVING HEARD IT, could forget the creepy line that opens the title track of the Doors’ second album? Recorded at the height of the ...

The Doors return to Sunset Boulevard

Retrospective by Michael Simmons, Huffington Post, 8 November 2006

EVER SINCE Jim Morrison cancelled his subscription to the resurrection in 1971, the Lizard King phenom has raged on. If you saw the Doors live, ...

The Doors: Perception Box Set

Review by Todd L. Burns, Stylus, 7 December 2006

IT'S NOT LIKE I knew any better. You're stuck in the Midwest, you look up to your significantly older brother, and then he thrusts an ...

The Doors: Perception

Review by David Cavanagh, Uncut, January 2007

The Compleat Jimbo and co on six CDs and six DVDs… "No one here gets out alive!" ...

The Doors

Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, Clash, May 2007

IN EARLY 1967, John Peel started playing tracks from the debut album by a new Californian group called The Doors. With no knowledge of the ...

The Doors In 1967: From Zeroes To Heroes In Six Months Flat

Retrospective by Dave Thompson, Goldmine, August 2007

"I've always been attracted to ideas that were about revolt against authority. When you make your peace with authority, you become an authority. I like ...

The Doors: Album by Album

Interview by Mick Houghton, Uncut, October 2007

"We were delving into the realms of the psychedelic... We created a new American music that was universal." So says keyboard player Ray Manzarek, deftly ...

Ray Manzarek on the Doors' 1970 Boston concerts

Report and Interview by Gillian G. Gaar, Goldmine, 21 December 2007

ON FRIDAY, April 10, 1970, The Doors were scheduled for two shows at the Boston Arena. The 7 p.m. show was respectable enough, beginning with ...

The Doors' Summer of Love

Retrospective by Martin Aston, MOJO, Summer 2007

ED SULLIVAN has an awful lot to answer for. It's a delicious irony that the stiff-necked, neo-conservative host of The Ed Sullivan Show, the country's ...

School of Rock: Monterey to Altamont

Guide by Barney Hoskyns, iTunes, 2008

BETWEEN 1966 and 1970, there was a seismic change in British and American pop. Within a few short years "pop" became "rock", and teenagers who'd ...

Various Artists: Where The Action Is! – Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968 (Rhino)

Review by Jeff Tamarkin, MOJO, October 2009

The latest in the Nuggets franchise documents the most fertile few years in southern Californian music history, taking in curios, weirdos, hipsters, freaks and a ...

When You're Strange: A film about the Doors…Finally!

Film/DVD/TV Review by Gary Pig Gold, Rock and Roll Report, 16 July 2010

THE SUMMER OF 1970 was certainly a strange one in, for, and around what we may now quaintly call the pop/rock scene: Paul had just ...

L.A. Woman and the Last Days of Jim Morrison

Retrospective and Interview by Max Bell, Classic Rock, August 2010

Forget what you think you know. How Jim Morrison REALLY died, by the people who found the body, moved the body and buried him… ...

Jac Holzman: Indie-Label Folkie to Rock Patriarch

Retrospective and Interview by Fred Goodman, The New York Times, 4 March 2011

JAC HOLZMAN, the 79-year-old founder and former chairman of Elektra Records, might be expected to rest on his laurels. Yet Mr. Holzman, who will be ...

Cars Hiss By My Window: The Doors' L.A. Woman landmarks

Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, February 2012

Sunset Sound Recorders, 6650 Sunset Blvd.The Doors had made their first two albums in this celebrated Hollywood studio, but it was also here that L.A. ...

When the music's never over: L.A. Woman and the Doors (or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Wasps)

Retrospective by Rob Steen, Rock's Backpages, 28 February 2012

BY NOW, they said, I would have outgrown it. When imagining myself plunged deep into the darkest inner recesses of middle age, I, too, once ...

Ray Manzarek was the key to the Doors

Comment by Laura Barton, The Guardian, 21 May 2013

As a teenager, I stuck a picture of Ray Manzarek on my school pencil tin — no other musician could make you feel like you ...

What a shame about Ray

Comment by Rob Steen, Rock's Backpages, 21 May 2013

"RAY RIP", texted my long-time muso pal Graham at 7am. Since neither of us, to my almost certain knowledge, has ever befriended a Raymond, my ...

The Doors: Out there in Golden Square, there were plenty of stars

Memoir by Geoffrey Cannon, Rock's Backpages, March 2014

ALL COUPS have a context. Here is the story of The Doors are Open, and how this Granada Television hour-long show came to be made ...

Vinyl Icon: The Making of the Doors' L.A.Woman  

Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, January 2015

AS 1970 DREW to a close, The Doors were widely considered a spent force. ...

The Domino Effect: How One of Toronto's Most Iconic Rock Concerts Almost Never Happened

Retrospective by Juliette Jagger, Noisey, 13 April 2015

FOR MANY, the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival of 1969 is the stuff of legends. For some, like famed rock promoter and pop culture icon ...

The Doors: The Soft Parade/Dance on Fire

Film/DVD/TV Review by Kieron Tyler, The Arts Desk, 4 June 2017

Jim Morrison and Co.'s confusing visual legacy suffers from lack of upgrades ...

Jim Morrison at Thee Experience

Book Excerpt by Kirk Silsbee, 'The Doors: Summer's Gone', September 2017

AFTER THE DOORS had tasted success, Hollywood was Jim Morrison's playground. The Whisky a Go Go in West Hollywood, which launched the band, showcased all ...

Jerry Hopkins

Memoir by Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, 5 June 2018

MY WRITER FRIEND Jerry Hopkins, who died at the weekend aged 82, was a grizzled old veteran of rock's seminal years. ...

Rock is Dead: The Doors' Soft Parade

Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, May 2019

NOTE: When Rhino asked me to write liner notes for their upcoming reissue of the Doors' worst album, they must have known they might not ...

Elektra: When Worlds Collide

Retrospective by Larry Jaffee, Record Collector News, February 2020

Former Manhattan home of Elektra Records faces demolition. The Doors' heyday coincided with label being at 1855 Broadway ...

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