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Billboard Article – Gold Albums
Doors Set Gold LP Record NEW YORK- The Doors have become the first American hard rock group to achieve five consecutive gold albums with the RIAA certification of more than $1 million in sales of “Morrison Hotel,” their latest Elektra Records Album, in less than three days after the pressing’s…
The Doors and All That Rock
Published in the New York Times By DON HECKMAN MORRISON HOTEL: The Doors. (Elektra EKS- 750070 The Doors have shown remarkably little inclination toward change in their years on top of the pop heap. The elements of their music are still basically the same as when “Light My Fire” seemed…
Creem Magazine Article
by Dave Marsh The Doors are truly the most American rock and roll band I’ve ever heard; like this country, when they’re good, they’re unbeatable and when they’re awful, they’re horrifying. And sometimes they’re horrifyingly good. It isn’t just that Jim Morrison is a real, or imagined, motherfucker, nor that…
Long Beach Opens Doors Concert
Published in the Los Angeles Free Press Written by JUDITH SIMS I’d heard about Long Beach; I knew it was south just about everyone, on the ocean. I’d actually been to the Long Beach Arena once, in 1965 when the Rolling Stones, the Byrds, and Paul Rivere and the Raiders…
THE DOORS: SAD WHEN FAD SITS IN FOR MUSICIANSHIP
VALLEY NEWS & GREEN SHEET- FEBRUARY 13, 1970 By MIKE MOORE The Doors are faltering, a racehorse with the greatest potential but temperamental and with hoofs of clay. They were top bill in a convert Saturday night at the Long Beach Sports Arena, along with Albert King and the Flying…
Doors: Their Music and Their Hassles by Tony Glover
Caption under Picture 1, Page 1 – “We went off the stage, and, 10 minutes later, they started breaking chairs and going crazy. So we got in a whole bunch of trouble – and got a terrible review. “ A little history never hurts. Just a short time ago, the…
Doors at Seattle
Published in Poppin Magazine By EDD JEFFORDS Something has happened to the Doors. Ray Manzarek knows it, several thousand people who attended the Seattle Pop Festival know, and probably so does Jim Morrison. Once one of the vital influences in rock, the Doors apparently have been captured entirely by the…
CASHBOX – THE SOFT PARADE
THE SOFT PARADE- The Doors- Elektra EKS 75005 This, the Doors long-awaited fourth LP is a furiously exciting and intense program of rock poetry. At the top of his form is vocalist-writer Jim Morrison whose work here is his finest to date, and the work of the group as a…
Jim Morrison Tells All
Published in ROLLING STONE By JERRY HOPKINS NEW YORK—Jim Morrison, looking like Che Guevara with heavy beard and long cigar, was in town with the Doors last week taping a Critique show for the National Educational Television network. The Gig (an Elektra Records brainchild) consisted of a ten-minute interview with…
The Mayor of Honolulu cancels DOORS concerts
TOP POPS – JULY 12, 1969 AMERICAN NEWS BEAT “THEY CAN KEEP THEIR DIRTY HABITS TO THEMSELVES” The Mayor of Honolulu cancels DOORS concerts Three more doors concerts have been cancelled – thanks to city authorities in St. Louis and Honolulu who think the group’s vocalist Jim Morrison is “obscene.”…