Published in RECORD WORLD Elektra Records has resigned the Doors – Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, and John Densmore—to an exclusive recording agreement, announces President Jac Holzman. “The history of the Doors and their success,” Holzman said, “closely parallels that of Elektra Records. All of us at the company who have worked for so many years …
Published in the LA Times BY DAN KNAPP Riders on the storm, Riders on the storm Into this house we’re born, Into this world we’re thrown Like a dog without a bone, An actor on alone Riders on the storm… Lyrics by Jim Morrison. The beginning of the last number on the last album cut …
Do you know the warm progress under the stars! Do you know we exits? Have you forgotten the keys to the Kingdom Have you been borne yet & are you alive? An American Prayer, copyright James Douglas Morrison, 1970 Jim Morrison looked his life like a movie. A subtle fantasy in which he was both …
Published in Melody Maker The best album The Doors have ever done was put out a couple of months ago. It was called “13” and it was a compilation essentially of their singles and a few others cuts. In fact, it might have been re-titled “The Doors Greatest Hits.” In a way, it was an …
Los Angeles: Jim Morrison, 27, lead singer of The Doors rock group, died Saturday night of natural causes in Paris, France, his public relations firm said yesterday. Details of the death were not released but the firm, and a spokesman said no information would be available until Morrison’s agent returned from Paris. The spokesman could …
Er war der Sanger und BoB der Doors, Amerikas Top-Rockgruppe von 1967 bis 1971. Ein Außenseiter, der Gedichte schrieb und Filme machen wollte. Unter mysteriösen Umstanden kam er am 3. Juli 1971 in Paris ums Leben. BRAVO schildert die Hintergrunde . . . Photo Caption 1 (Band Pic): Oktober 1968: Jim Morrison mit den …
The album has an original cover. It is the top of a pair of jeans with a gimmick zipper done by Andy Warhol. You grab the zipper with trebling hands, and pull down slowly to reveal OH NO! It’s Jim Morrison! Why you sly dog, you, Jim, and after all the trouble you’ve been through! …
By Mike Jahn The Doors have a new album out called “L.A. Woman”, and it is a continuation of their tend back to the hard rock of their birth. “L.A. Woman” [Elektra] is nearly all blues. The first album the Doors produced themselves; it is stark, bare and simple; it is more driving and rocking …
By Pat Patrick Just to begin, I’d like to say that I am and have been for quite a while, one of those sock-em-and bop-em, tried and true, Doors fans. Even more to the point, I am an even more devoted Jim Morrison fan. (I Love Him!) And how, I am going to write a …
Sitting, watching and waiting for a possible doom factor to happen with no way to halt it is a gut wrenching, nerve racking experience. Then the waiting was over, Jim Morrison faced Judge Murray Goodman in Miami. “You are a person graced with a talent, admired by many of your peers. Man tends to imitate …