They had no bassist to there band which was one of the reasons why there sound was so ground-breaking. Morrison's poems and lyrics about death, murder, madness, sex and drugs fit perfectly and intertwined with the dark sound of The Doors. In 1967, after a few gigs, the band got signed to Elektra Records and began recording at a real time music studio...
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There first single was the famous, "Break on through", but it wasn't until the release of "Light my Fire" when the band began reaching national stardom. There first album which featured those two singles was the self entitled, "The Doors" which now music appreciators feel is there best work. The album is labeled as one of the "top 500 albums of all time" by The Rolling Stones Magazine and by the time there second album, Strange Days came out, the band was a cultural and musical phenomenon...
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Jim Morrison Critic Lester Bangs when he said, "The Stones were dirty, but The Doors were dread" perhaps best summed up the band's appeal" Although all of the Doors songs are poetic, the ones that are most recognized for being so are, "The End" and "Break on Through...	3 / 709
Jim Morrison After graduating UCLA, Morrison read some poems to fellow student, Ray Manzarek and they both decided on the spot to start a rock band. To complete the band, two more members, Robbie Krieger and John Densmore joined the group...	3 / 756
Jim Morrison Jim ignored them. "He hated conformity; he'd always get some queer slant on things. He'd try to shock us. He loved to do that", his grandmother says. (Hopkins, Sugerman 28) He eventually transferred to Florida State University, then to UCLA...	3 / 701
The Doors Woman, Morrison decided to take some time out and with girlfriend Pamela Courson moved to Paris. Morrison died there under mysterious circumstances on 3 July 1971; his body was found in his apartment's bath tub...	2 / 368