Legend has it that when Jim Morrison was told not to sing “higher” in “Light My Fire,” disaster ensued. The guitarist remembers it differently Fifty years after Jim Morrison’s mysterious death in Paris, enough books on the Doors have been published to fill several shelves at your local bookstore. John Densmore and the late Ray …
On November 4th, 2021, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of The Doors final studio album L.A. WOMAN (1971), “The Doors: Live At The Bowl ’68 Special Edition” will transform movie theaters into concert venues, giving Doors fans around the world the closest experience to being there live alongside Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Ray Manzarek …
Outtake will feature on upcoming L.A. Woman reissue John Densmore vividly remembers the words longtime Doors producer Paul A. Rothchild used to describe “Riders on the Storm”: “cocktail music.” “When he heard it, it was in an early rehearsal and it hadn’t evolved into what it became,” the drummer says of the dramatic track, a …
When the lead singer of The Doors, Jim Morrison, died in 1971 at age 27, he left behind boxes filled with poetry, journals, and handwritten lyrics of what would become some of the era’s most memorable songs. His sister, Anne Morrison Chewning, has now compiled material from his archive into a new book, “The Collected …
Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying, and Playing Guitar With the Doors arrives October 12th The Doors guitarist Robby Krieger will publish his first-ever memoir, Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying, and Playing Guitar With the Doors, this October. The book, written with Jeff Alulis, tells Krieger’s story in a series of vignettes, …
Doors frontman Jim Morrison will be the subject of a new feature-length documentary that will focus on the totality of his artistry. “Jim Morrison has been known as the leather trousers-clad Dionysian rock star, the Greek god handsome, amazing singer, shaman and performer. But Jim was a polymath. Jim was a poet and a writer …
The Collected Works of Jim Morrison As a poet, writer, singer-songwriter, filmmaker and frontman to The Doors, Jim Morrison’s body of work forms one of the twentieth century’s greatest artistic legacies. Before his passing, Morrison proposed how this work might be published on a leaf of paper entitled ‘Plan for Book’. Now, with the Estate …
‘The Collected Works of Jim Morrison’ will feature unrecorded lyrics, excerpts from handwritten notebooks, a film treatment, and more from the late Doors frontman At some point before his death in July 1971, Jim Morrison handwrote a list, titled “Plan for Book,” that laid out his thoughts on a collection of his poetry, lyrics, and …
John Densmore, who grew up in L.A. and played drums for the Doors, has a new book out called “The Seekers.” It’s a collection of stories and musings about Densmore’s musical heroes, people who sought and found truth and reason in art, and also found what the drummer calls “the thread that tugs on our …
Along with 2020 box set issues from John Lennon, Rolling Stones, and Tom Petty, The Doors’ “Morrison Hotel” was listed among the best of this year’s music box sets. Click here to read the full article on rollingstone.com.