The Doors, American band that, with a string of hits in the late 1960s and early ’70s, was the creative vehicle for singer Jim Morrison, one of rock music’s mythic figures. The members were Morrison (in full James Douglas Morrison; b. December 8, 1943, Melbourne, Florida, U.S.—d. July 3, 1971, Paris, France), Ray Manzarek (b. February 12, 1939, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—d. May 20, 2013, Rosenheim, Germany), Robby Krieger (b. January 8, 1946, Los Angeles, California, U.S.), and John Densmore (b. December 1, 1945, Los Angeles).
The Doors’ instrumentalists—keyboardist Manzarek, guitarist Krieger, and drummer Densmore—combined backgrounds in classical music and blues with the improvisational daring of a jazz band. It was the dark-edged eroticism of Morrison’s baritone and pseudo-poetic lyrics, however, that set the Los Angeles-based quartet apart from the prevailing hippie utopianism that pervaded West Coast rock in the late 1960s. Morrison’s early death only enhanced his reputation as the quintessential rock showman and troubled artiste for subsequent generations.
Morrison and Manzarek, acquaintances from the film school of the University of California at Los Angeles, conceived the group after the singer recited one of his poems to the keyboardist on a southern California beach. Morrison took the band’s name from Aldous Huxley’s book on mescaline, The Doors of Perception, which in turn referred to a line in a poem by William Blake. The Doors acquired a reputation for pushing the boundaries of rock composition, both musically and lyrically, in performances on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. Their breakthrough hit, “Light My Fire,” was an anthem in 1967, but it was songs such as “The End”—an 11-minute Oedipal drama with sexually explicit lyrics and a swirling ebb-and-flow arrangement—that established the Doors’ reputation as one of rock’s most potent, controversial, and theatrical acts. Indeed, the group was banned from the Whisky-a-Go-Go in Los Angeles after an early performance of the song.
Though the group’s ambitious music encompassed everything from Chicago blues to German cabaret, their string of pop hits caused them to be dismissed by some critics as a teenybopper act; this deeply troubled Morrison, who craved acceptance as a serious artist. By the time of the release of the Doors’ third album, Waiting for the Sun (1968), Morrison had created a shamanistic alter ego for himself, the Lizard King; the singer’s poem “The Celebration of the Lizard King” was printed inside the record jacket. His concert performances were marked by increasingly outrageous stunts, and Morrison was arrested in 1969 for exposing himself onstage in Miami. The charges were eventually dropped, but the incident served notice of Morrison’s physical decline, in part because of his addiction to alcohol.
The singer took increasing solace in his poetry, some of which was published, and the group’s tours became less frequent. The Doors reestablished their artistic credibility with the blues-steeped Morrison Hotel (1970), but after the quartet’s sixth studio release, L.A. Woman (1971), Morrison retreated to Paris, where he hoped to pursue a literary career. Instead, he died there of heart failure in 1971 at age 27. Without Morrison, the Doors produced two undistinguished albums before breaking up. They reunited briefly in 1978 to record An American Prayer, providing backing music for poetry Morrison recorded before his death. Manzarek also produced albums for the punk band X.
In death Morrison was lionized by generations of fans, both as a youth icon and as an influence on singers such as Iggy Pop, Echo and the Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch, and Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder. The Doors’ releases continued to sell in the millions, and The Doors, a 1991 movie directed by Oliver Stone, was a critical and popular success. The Doors were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 and received a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement in 2007.
Ghost Song - An American Prayer - Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGkUdLXTq-M&list=PLy5yrMKIAvv_9nh5II8r56eZEtfkVVTGU&index=2
Dawn's Highway - An American Prayer - Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n2pLaWRs2A&list=PLy5yrMKIAvv_9nh5II8r56eZEtfkVVTGU&index=3
Newborn Awakening - An American Prayer - Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPn5H9AdTn4&list=PLy5yrMKIAvv_9nh5II8r56eZEtfkVVTGU&index=4
Black Polished Chrome - An American Prayer - Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMrJuxyiZhA&list=PLy5yrMKIAvv_9nh5II8r56eZEtfkVVTGU&index=5
To Come Of Age - An American Prayer - Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgZYMvz9epA&list=PLy5yrMKIAvv_9nh5II8r56eZEtfkVVTGU&index=6
Latino Chrome - An American Prayer - Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZXetDcAsiE&list=PLy5yrMKIAvv_9nh5II8r56eZEtfkVVTGU&index=7
Angels And Sailors - An American Prayer - Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2JrSZod6Ng&list=PLy5yrMKIAvv_9nh5II8r56eZEtfkVVTGU&index=8
Stoned Immaculate - An American Prayer - Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA4xrOYIoCs&list=PLy5yrMKIAvv_9nh5II8r56eZEtfkVVTGU&index=9
Curses, Invocations - An American Prayer - Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxi4fHatuMc&list=PLy5yrMKIAvv_9nh5II8r56eZEtfkVVTGU&index=10
The Movie - An American Prayer - Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LEYWCJPwR4&list=PLy5yrMKIAvv_9nh5II8r56eZEtfkVVTGU&index=11
American Night - An American Prayer - Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jnn2LoM3A4&list=PLy5yrMKIAvv_9nh5II8r56eZEtfkVVTGU&index=12
Roadhouse Blues - An American Prayer - Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6TLCdlSGdc&list=PLy5yrMKIAvv_9nh5II8r56eZEtfkVVTGU&index=13
The World On Fire - An American Prayer - Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLl-MHW7RqA&list=PLy5yrMKIAvv_9nh5II8r56eZEtfkVVTGU&index=14
Lament - An American Prayer - Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0oslP3C54Q&list=PLy5yrMKIAvv_9nh5II8r56eZEtfkVVTGU&index=15
The Hitchhiker - An American Prayer - Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cg3_4s9iUw&list=PLy5yrMKIAvv_9nh5II8r56eZEtfkVVTGU&index=16
An American Prayer - An American Prayer - Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHKDhpqxHTU&list=PLy5yrMKIAvv_9nh5II8r56eZEtfkVVTGU&index=17
Hour For Magic - An American Prayer - Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-hDKGIfk44&list=PLy5yrMKIAvv_9nh5II8r56eZEtfkVVTGU&index=18
Freedom Exists - An American Prayer - Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6knYGM6Cu4E&list=PLy5yrMKIAvv_9nh5II8r56eZEtfkVVTGU&index=19
A Feast Of Friends - An American Prayer - Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BETlAA-SjE&list=PLy5yrMKIAvv_9nh5II8r56eZEtfkVVTGU&index=20
Babylon Fading [Bonus] - An American Prayer - Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4KM6Wnk2A0&list=PLy5yrMKIAvv_9nh5II8r56eZEtfkVVTGU&index=21
Bird Of Prey [Bonus] - An American Prayer - Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xrczl02gFxo&list=PLy5yrMKIAvv_9nh5II8r56eZEtfkVVTGU&index=22
The Ghost Song (Extended Version) [Bonus] - An American Prayer -Jim Morrison (Music By The Doors) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbZnX21KwUQ&list=PLy5yrMKIAvv_9nh5II8r56eZEtfkVVTGU&index=23
The Doors - Music Video - L.A. Woman 1971 | HQ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMiAQPABgHA
The Doors - Riders On The Storm - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv8GW1GaoIc&list=RDEM1GboVrDFJL_nlitGwJbmzA&index=1
The Doors - The End - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VScSEXRwUqQ&list=RDEM1GboVrDFJL_nlitGwJbmzA&index=2
The Doors - People are strange ( original 1967 demo) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shrmKRGJ-vs&list=RDEM1GboVrDFJL_nlitGwJbmzA&index=3
The Doors - Light My Fire - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbj1RFaoyLk&list=RDEM1GboVrDFJL_nlitGwJbmzA&index=11
The Doors - Love Me Two Times (Live In Europe 1968) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcAS_i79WYE&list=RDEM1GboVrDFJL_nlitGwJbmzA&index=17
The Doors - Roadhouse Blues - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2_X4VTCoEo&list=RDEM1GboVrDFJL_nlitGwJbmzA&index=22
The Doors - Love Her Madly (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvI4c2EjpvM&list=RDEM1GboVrDFJL_nlitGwJbmzA&index=23
The Doors - The Changeling [Remastered] (Official Audio) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtN8UPjN5WU&list=RDEM1GboVrDFJL_nlitGwJbmzA&index=30
The Doors - Gloria - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ3bOIYUSg8&list=RDEM1GboVrDFJL_nlitGwJbmzA&index=40
The Doors - Rock Me Baby (2020 Remaster) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnrVMoI6UN0&list=RDEM1GboVrDFJL_nlitGwJbmzA&index=38
The Doors - Peace frog (nathan's stop.... carry on edit) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ma1IU82jm4&list=RDEM1GboVrDFJL_nlitGwJbmzA&index=48
The Doors "Been Down So Long (Alternate Version)" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgw5j9h8528
The Doors - Back Door Man - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTwNzhLvRGs
Doors - Strange Days,You're Lost Little Girl (vinyl) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f245OOOjOeU
The Doors - Riders on the Storm (Vinyl, LP) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ_lu3ltFJo
The Doors - Riders on the storm ( Chemical Broz chill out remix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsV_0Vseg3s
The Doors Riders on the Storm Chill remix & video Tellyasomethin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIIu-Ji0WUk
The Doors - Waiting For The Sun DNB REMIX BY SAFRA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzRDvKfU1Sk
The doors - riders on the storm (Haji black rain mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8PseXIKLws
The Doors - When The Music's Over (Mitch D Edit) parte 22 de 44 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2IqDyBbWz8
The Doors - Soul Kitchen - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLbfviLC09k
THE DOORS -SOUL KITCHEN- (DEEP HAZEX REMIX) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO-EcdpugBI
The Doors - Break on Through (To the Other Side) (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATW2f-hVwiQ
The Doors - Touch Me (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U0H7py5n6w
The Doors - Love Street (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDxnHGsB1fk
The Doors - The Crystal Ship (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm9Xue6MyfY
The Doors - Spanish Caravan (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsyORrfmHK8
The Doors - Strange Days (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWks4zlMF0A
The Doors - Moonlight Drive (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8FhI94DMl0
The Doors - End of the Night (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aMamzJUdCc
The Doors - Tell All the People (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYJAGEb2Ejg
The Doors - Wishful Sinful (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IREgeT8GveM
The Doors - Peace Frog (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NTg4Z_R_sU
The Doors - The Changeling (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4py-jtiCtfc
The Doors - My Eyes Have Seen You (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C24HquhEh0
The Doors - Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KQaLRfOiG4
The Doors - Not to Touch the Earth (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQBWYYGgkYY
The Doors - The End (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFfch6-D_60
The Doors - The Unknown Soldier (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgbvuuVovb0
The Doors -Twentieth Century Fox (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg5o-t9l9Ro
The Doors - The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q7RhRrwfms
The Doors - Light My Fire (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56PHWxY758M
The Doors - Love Me Two Times (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMlyBF1lXn0
The Doors - Roadhouse Blues (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtU0ss9Zki4
The Doors - Break on Through (To the Other Side) (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATW2f-hVwiQ
The Doors - Back Door Man (New Stereo Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9IEp_Px5tM
The Doors - Hello, I Love You (Adam Freeland Fabric Mix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM0txAV0Ngw
The Doors - Roadhouse Blues (Crystal Method Remix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdnDfu3lJb8
#The DOORS REMIX ROadHouse BLUES♤ TACKLEONE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SimPWH1sCRM
The Doors - Roadhouse Blues Remix - DJ Nando Mix - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I-nQT7wPKA
The Doors - Roadhouse Blues (Mappler Remix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl2DVmM3BCQ
The Doors - Roadhouse Blues (Best Seller Remix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxpFJp-jxV8
Fender Bender - The Doors- Roadhouse Blues Remix - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Ag_DFlPeA
The Doors - Roadhouse Blues (Jorge Araujo Remix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPYKuKTiwhU
The Doors - Riders On The Storm (Nuts Musique Edit) // OFFICIAL VIDEO - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoA4x8MbPEg
The Doors - When The Music's Over (Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2pOoqDzEh8
The Doors Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival East Afton Farm, Isle Of Wight, UK Sun. August 30, 1970 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51SAvWieaNc
Jim Morrison: The Final 24 (Full Documentary) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsR298DD5aw
