The Doors Albums for song lyrics and biography.

	L.A. Woman (The Doors - 1971)
	Morrison Hotel (The Doors - 1970)
	The Soft Parade (The Doors - 1969)
	Waiting For The Sun (The Doors - 1968)
	The Doors (The Doors - 1967)
	Strange Days (The Doors - 1967)

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The Doors Biography

The Doors were a musical band of the 1960s and early 1970s, consisting of Jim Morrison (lead vocals), Ray Manzarek (organ, keyboard), Robby Krieger (guitar), and John Densmore (drums). The group started in 1965 in Los Angeles, California, after a meeting between UCLA film school students Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek. Morrison sang Manzarek some of his poetry and song lyrics including Moonlight Drive. Manzarek was already in a band called Rick And The Ravens while Krieger and Densmore were playing with The Psychedelic Rangers, but knew Manzarek from shared meditation instruction. The latter two, with a female bass player, were rapidly recruited and the band took up a number of club residences first at LA's London Fog and later the Whisky A Go-Go. The band took their name from the title of a book by Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, which was in turn borrowed from a line of poetry by the 18th century artist and poet William Blake: "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it truly is, infinite." After being spotted by producer Paul A. Rothchild, the band were signed to the Elektra Records label beginning a long and successful partnership with Rothchild and engineer Bruce Botnick. Their self-titled debut LP featured most of the major songs from their set, including the ten-minute musical drama, "The End". With the band at the peak of their form and bristling with energy and ambition, the album was recorded in only a few days, almost entirely live in the studio, with most songs captured in a single take. Morrison and Manzarek also directed an innovative promotional film for the single "Break On Through", which was an important stepping stone in the development of the music video genre. Released in January 1967, the album caused a sensation in music circles and the first single released from it, "Light My Fire", became a major hit, establishing the group alongside Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead as one of the top new American bands of 1967. With his saturnine good looks, magnetic stage presence and skin-tight leather trousers, Morrison quickly became one of the major pop sex symbols of his day, although he soon became frustrated with the strictures of stardom. The second Doors LP Strange Days was almost as strong as the first and it cemented the group's reputation. Their third LP Waiting For The Sun (1968) showed the band beginning to branch out from their initial format as they exhausted their original reportoire and began writing new material. It became their first #1 LP and the single "Hello, I Love You" was their second US #1 single. It also included the song "The Unknown Soldier", for which they created another superb self-directed music video, and "Not To Touch The Earth", excerpted from their legendary thirty-minute concept piece Celebration of the Lizard, although they were reportedly unable to record a satifactory version of the entire piece for the LP. In 1969, with the release of The Soft Parade, the band further augmented their sound with the use of a horn section, strings, and other sounds on choice tracks (their single, "Touch Me," featured saxophonist Curtis Amy). To fans of the Doors, the music included socially, psychologically and politically charged lyrics mostly written by 'The Lizard King', Jim Morrison. The jazz drumming of John Densmore, the swirling keyboards of Ray Manzarek, whose left hand played the parts typically associated with bass guitar, and Robby Krieger's guitar playing, which showed the influence of flamenco, Indian, the blues and classical music, combined to form a distinctive sound. The Doors were unusual among rock groups in that they did not use a bass guitarist in concert, with Manzarek playing the bass lines on an Fender electric keyboard bass, an offshoot of the well-known Fender electric piano. However, guitarist Lonnie Mack guested on bass on several tracks on their Morrison Hotel LP and Jerry Scheff (longtime bassist for Elvis Presley) played bass on their L.A. Woman LP. Many of the songs made by The Doors were done in a communal way, reflected Manzarek, with Morrison usually contributing the lyrics and some melody, while the others hammered out the beat and flow of the song. While Morrison and Manzarek were walking on the beach in California, they passed an African-American girl, and Morrison wrote the lyrics to Hello I Love You in a single night, referring to the girl as the "dusky jewel". The song received some criticism at the time for its resemblance to The Kinks' 1965 hit "All Day And All Of The Night". The Doors quickly earned a reputation as a challenging and entertaining live act, as well as having a rebellious reputation. In one appearance on September 17, 1967 with a live performance on the Ed Sullivan Show on the Columbia Broadcasting System network, the network's censors demanded the group change its lyrics in its song, Light My Fire, altering the line, "Girl we couldn't get much hig...
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