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The Doors

December 2023

  • ‘I honestly, truly hate being online’: Liam Parsons (left) with bandmate Stefan Blair.

    The funniest things on the internet
    Good Morning: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

    We asked the very online band to share their favourite clips – including multiple videos of misbehaving animals and men getting emotional

November 2022

  • A woman stands at the grave of the Doors frontman Jim Morrison at the Pére-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

    Brief letters
    What happened to the bust from Jim Morrison’s grave?

    Brief letters: Père-Lachaise cemetery | Days brightened by John Crace | Lessons for the left | Eric Allison’s million-pound answer

December 2021

  • Robbie Krieger

    Doors guitarist Robby Krieger: ‘The music will outlast the crazy Jim stuff’

    In the musician’s new memoir, he aims to tell the true, uncensored story of one of the greatest bands of all time while dispelling some long-running myths

June 2021

  • Jim Morrison

    Ranked
    The Doors’ greatest songs – ranked!

    Ahead of the 50th anniversary of singer Jim Morrison’s death, we rank the LA band’s best tracks, from the summer of love anthem Light My Fire to the apocalyptic The End

February 2020

  • Bland … The Doors: Break on Thru.

    The Doors Break on Thru: A Celebration of Ray Manzarek review – pale fire

    In this lacklustre documentary, surviving members of the Doors reunite to pay tribute to the band’s late keyboard player

January 2020

  • John Densmore … ‘I hated his self-destruction …’

    Doors drummer John Densmore: ‘It took me years to forgive Jim Morrison’

    When he was at the centre of the US counterculture, he lived in terror of his bandmate. Yet after the singer’s death, he fought ferociously to protect his legacy. But, he says, he still regrets not calling out Morrison on his abusive relationships with women

October 2018

  • From left: Behind the Candlabra; Liberace; Tina Turner; What’s Love Got To Do With It?

    From The Doors to Behind the Candelabra: which classic biopic is best?

    With the long-awaited Bohemian Rhapsody finally released, here are the best music biopics rated on dodgy plots, bad wigs and nightmarish production

September 2018

  • ‘This is not the next Mick Jagger’ … Jim Morrison.

    How we made
    How we made the Doors' Hello, I Love You

    ‘Jim thought the studio was on fire and sprayed everything with an extinguisher. But it wasn’t on fire. He’d just taken acid’

April 2018

  • Apple Corps Office, 1968 From left to right the back row includes Denis O'Dell, Paul McCartney, Alexis Mardes (known as Magic Alex), Peter Brown (bearly visible behind John Lennon's head), Brian Levis and Ron Kass; Neil Aspinal, who died earlier this week, sits in the middle ground; in the foreground, John Lennon and Derek Taylor. O'Dell would produce the Magical Mystery Tour; Magic Alex was head of the Beatles' Apple Electronics and broke the news to Lennon's first wife, Cynthia, that John wanted a divorce; Brown worked as an assistant to Brian Epstein; Kass was an american businessman involved in Apple Records; Taylor wored as the Beatles Press Officer for 30 years; Aspinall started as the Beatles' road manager and personal assistant and eventually came to run the Apple Corps. The photo of the Beatles on stage in the background is by Graham Finlayson who worked for the Guardian. GNM Archive ref: OBS/6/9/3/2/B box 4

    Book of the day
    As Time Goes By by Derek Taylor review – a poignant insight into the Beatles

    This updated memoir from the Fab Four’s press officer is an astute but self-effacing take on a unique era

January 2018

  • Spotify have been hit with another in a string of lawsuits.

    Spotify sued for $1.6bn in unpaid royalties as it reportedly files for IPO

    The music streaming service faces a claim on behalf of artists including Neil Young and Janis Joplin as it prepares a share sale

December 2016

  • The Doors band in 1968

    The Doors: London Fog 1966 review – embryonic sound of stars in the making

November 2016

  • Eve Babitz

    Eve Babitz: return of the LA woman

    Jim Morrison wrote a song about her, Ed Ruscha romanced her, and she played chess with Marcel Duchamp nude – but it’s her books, to be adapted for TV, that have ensured Babitz’s reputation will last

October 2016

  • Jim Morrison of the Doors.

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend playlist: your songs about being scared

    We asked for your nominations of songs that spoke of fear and being scared – a reader picks the best of the bunch, from the Doors to prog rockers Rush

September 2016

  • DOORS DENSMORE KRIEGER MANZAREK MORRISON<br>FOR USE WITH FEATURE PACKAGE FOR SUNDAY NOV. 30--FILE--Members of the Doors pose for an undated publicity photo. From left; John Densmore, Robbie Krieger, Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison. Morrison died in 1971 at age 27. A four-CD boxed set of Doors material has been released, breaking sales records for boxed sets this year in its first week of release, according to Electra Records. (AP Photo/file) DOORS.JPG

    Quiz – how well do you know this week in music history?

    A delinquent Door; a rapping Ramone; a generation of Whitesnakes; and a TV dispatch from our own correspondent

May 2016

  • Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin

    1971 by David Hepworth review – the very best year in rock music?

    The veteran music writer makes his case with reference to Led Zeppelin, the Who, the Doors and Carole King’s Tapestry. But what about the popular singles – and how can he dismiss T Rex?

July 2015

  • Neil Young<br>FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2015, file photo, Musician Neil Young speaks during a session at the International CES, in Las Vegas. Advocates like Neil Young and major record labels say the format that’s the high end of what’s known as “high-resolution” audio restores textures, nuances and tones that listeners sacrifice when opting for the convenience of music compressed into formats like MP3s or Apple’s AAC. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

    Don't play Neil Young or the Doors, BBC tells DJs and programme makers

    The two acts are among four that the corporation cannot play for fear of breaching copyright

June 2015

  • Rock group "The Doors" pose for a promotional photos circa 1966. Left to right - Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger.

    10 of the best
    The Doors: 10 of the best

    The Doors remain one of the most influential band of the 60s, with charismatic frontman Jim Morrison and songs that swirl with poetry, sex and death

September 2014

  • Photo of Jim Morrison, Sept. 1968; Frankfurt, Germany. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

    Unreleased Doors film from 1968 tour out in November

    Filming for the rarely seen Feast of Friends took place across five months and 20 US cities

May 2013

  • mama cass photographed by henry diltz

    Henry Diltz: caught in the Canyon

  • The Doors

    From Rock's Backpages
    The Doors: 'You could call us erotic politicians' – a classic interview

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