
Doors’ Debut Album: 10 Things You Didn’t Know
How an uncredited bassist, Jim Morrison’s acid-fuelled studio meltdown and a fateful Buick ad played into band’s legendary first LP
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Legend has it that when Jim Morrison was told not to sing “higher” in “Light My Fire,” disaster ensued. The guitarist remembers it differently
Outtake will feature on upcoming L.A. Woman reissue
Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying, and Playing Guitar With the Doors arrives October 12th
‘The Collected Works of Jim Morrison’ will feature unrecorded lyrics, excerpts from handwritten notebooks, a film treatment, and more from the late Doors frontman
Band also unveils art for special picture disc vinyl accompanying the upcoming graphic novel
Guitarist Robby Krieger reflects on outtake, which will feature on upcoming 50th-anniversary Morrison Hotel box set
Unreleased studio outtakes capture evolution of album’s “Roadhouse Blues,” “Peace Frog” and “Queen of the Highway”
Fifty years ago this month, England held its own version of Woodstock and reportedly drew an even bigger crowd
“I think the songs don’t just lend themselves to the medium, they actually cry out to be comics,” author Leah Moore says