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Billboard Article – Doors Ring Bell, Fans Wail at Garden Date
NEW YORK- A 20-minute intermission seemed almost too long to wait for some 20,000 fans as they booed and stomped their feet waiting for the Doors’ concert Saturday (25) at Madison Square Garden. The Doors capped the bill which also starred the Staple Singers. But the highly excitable audience cheered…
Variety – January 29, 1969
THE DOORS (MADISON SQ. GARDEN, N.Y.) The Doors, one of the top rock combos which is now flying high on the success of a new Elektra single. “Touch Me,” made a triumphant return to New York Friday night (24) after many months in absentia. The Doors pulled some 20,000 very…
Ooo, They Lit The Garden’s Fire!
Daily News article by Donald Flynn A West Coast rock group called the Doors slammed into Madison Square Garden last night and 20,000 screaming teenyboppers tried to rip them off their hinges. The Doors, for the benefit of any squares who read this, are the new Beatles led by and…
Alexandra Tacht Article – 1969
Morrison finally did it. He culminated his career as sex symbol of the decade by dropping his pants in front of umpteen thousand screaming teenies in Miami. Exit Morrison who hopped the country and lef in his wake 35,000 teens turning on a Decency Rally behind Jackie Gleason and Anita…
Doors New Riot – Concert Tour a Smash in Phoenix, AZ
Published in Rolling Stone PHOENIX, ARIZ.—The Doors will never play the Arizona State Fair again. And a relatively small riot (for the Doors) has been blown up into a bad publicity campaign that has already cost them a TV special date. The Doors were booked into the Veterans War Memorial…
Doors Can Provide Instant Enlightenment Through Sex
Published in the Los Angeles Free Press BY GENE YOUNGBLOOD The Doors’ new album, “Strange Days,” is a landmark in rock music. It ventures beyond the conventional realm of musical expression: it has become the theater. The cruel theater of Artaud, and of “Marat/Sade.” The theater of shock, and of…
The Doors Prove a Slam Here
Published in the Madison (WIS) Journal By John W. English (Of The State Journal Staff) Jim Morrison lead vocalist of The Doors, demonstrated his explosive style Friday before a half-filled Dane County Memorial Coliseum crowd of hard-rock devotees. The effect was both chilling and numbing. The Doors’ music, while emphasizing…
AMERICAN PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU
All four members of the Doors- vocalist Jim Morrison, pianist-organist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore- have college backgrounds. Ray Manzarek holds a master’s degree from UCLA in psychology; Morrison, singer and writer of their original material and songs, has a bachelor’s degree in math. Krieger and…
‘Acid’ Rock Singers Etch Their Messages
Published in the MILWAUKEE (WIS) JOURNAL By PIERRE-RENE NOTH The Doors to acid rock opened at the Arena Friday night to a large crowd that helped the proper key: Youth. The Doors, to the uninitiated, are no wooden set of guitar pickers and brassy vocalists. They are perhaps the leading…
Courier – Journal By Glenn Rutherford
In keeping with the spirit of Halloween, something weird happened last night at Freedom Hall. The weird thing happening was a concert by the Doors, a singing group from the Los Angeles area. Many strangely dressed people showed up among the 4,500 persons attending the program. Actually, they weren’t dressed…