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

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 conventional standpoint of funky, pub piano jives ('You Make Me Real'), to lengthy, moody Morrison drawls like 'Blue Sunday'. The atmosphere may be "my girl is waiting for me", but our Jimmy is clearly in no mood to drop 'em any more.

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