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    Break Through 'The Doors'
    Break Through 'The Doors'
    Break Through 'The Doors'
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    Break Through 'The Doors'

    By Christopher Goulart

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    The Doors were among the most intense and revolutionary bands of the Sixties. The impact of their meteoric career has resonated far beyond their brief half-decade as a recording and performing entity. Their words and music captured the Sixties zeitgeist with undeniable power. A cult of personality continues to surround Jim Morrison, their tempestuous lead singer. Morrison was a brooding, charismatic front man in the classic mold of Elvis Presley and Mick Jagger. Morrison pushed himself to the limit with drugs, alcohol and hard living, becoming one of rock’s most celebrated martyrs when his body gave out at the age of 27. Only six years passed from the Doors’ formation in 1966 to Morrison’s death in 1971. During that time, the group released six studio albums and left a smoldering trail of memorable and often controversial concert performances that cemented.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateJun 8, 2014
    ISBN9781304949714
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      Break Through 'The Doors' - Christopher Goulart

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      © 2013 by Christopher Goulart

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      The Doors

      Morrison and Manzarek, acquaintances from the UCLA Graduate School of Film, conceived the group at a 1965 meeting on a Southern California beach. After Morrison recited one of his poems, Moonlight Drive, Manzarek — who had studied classical piano as a child and played in Rick and the Ravens, a UCLA blues band — suggested they collaborate on songs. Manzarek's brothers, Rick and Jim, served as guitarists until Manzarek met John Densmore, who brought in Robby Krieger; both had been members of the Psychedelic Rangers. Morrison christened the band the Doors, from William Blake via Aldous Huxley's book on mescaline, The Doors of Perception.

      The Doors soon recorded a demo tape, and in the summer of 1966 they began working as the house band at the Whisky-a-Go-Go, a gig that ended four months later when they were fired for performing the explicitly Oedipal The End, one of Morrison's many songs that included dramatic recitations. By then Jac Holzman of Elektra Records had been convinced by Arthur Lee of Love to sign the band.

      An edited version of Krieger's Light My Fire from the Doors' debut album (Number Two, 1967) became a Number One hit in 1967, while progressive FM radio played (and analyzed) The End. The band's two sides came to a head during their 1967 appearance on The Ed Sullivan show when Morrison kept the word higher in the lyrics to Light My Fire despite the show's request to remove it (whether it was intentional or not remains up to debate). Sullivan banned them from making future appearances.

      Morrison's image as the embodiment of dark psychological impulses was established quickly, even as he was being featured in such teen magazines as 16. Strange Days (Number Three, 1967) and Waiting for the Sun (Number One, 1968) both included hit singles and became best-selling albums. Waiting for the Sun also marked the first appearance of Morrison's mythic alter ego, the Lizard King, in a poem printed inside the record jacket entitled The Celebration of the Lizard King. Though part of the poem was used as lyrics for Not to Touch the Earth, a complete Celebration didn't appear on record until

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