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3 days ago · In 1978 the remaining former Doors gathered again to record backing tracks for poetry Morrison had recorded before his death, releasing the result as An American Prayer by “Jim Morrison, music by the Doors.”. The band and Morrison’s story came to the motion picture screen as The Doors (1991), directed by Oliver Stone.
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4 days ago · He remembers the singer fondly, though he remains in awe of Morrison’s drug intake, “I can see how his heart gave out,” he recalled, “He’d walk into a room, there’d be a bowl full of pills – uppers, downers, acid, you name it – and he would gobble them down the way you and I would eat M&M’s. Then he’d wash them down with ...
3 days ago · The Doors were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore. They were among the most influential and controversial rock acts of the 1960s, primarily due to Morrison's lyrics and voice, along with his erratic stage persona and legal ...
1 day ago · He referred to this incident in the Doors' song "Peace Frog" from their 1970 album Morrison Hotel, and in his spoken word performances "Dawn's Highway" and "Ghost Song" on the posthumous 1978 album An American Prayer. Morrison described this incident as the most formative event of his life, and made repeated references to it in the imagery in ...
6 days ago · The first Doors song Jim Morrison ever wrote: “We’re going all the way with this”. The Doors always made songs that sounded like they were coming from another planet. Regardless of the amount of blues and jazz that they threw into the mix, you weren’t going to get someone like Jim Morrison in any other genre of music, playing the role ...
3 days ago · Jim Morrison, 'An American Prayer' Jim Morrison tragically died of a drug overdose in Paris in 1971. In the years prior, he had been working on some spoken word that had never been published.
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1 day ago · Don't name a library after me, please, I'm still writing. I had a long talk with my friend George Latimer, the mayor of St. Paul, last Monday, which went on for 54 minutes, which is a long time for a dying man, but Mayor Latimer is quite feisty at 88, has been in and out of hospice a few times so his intentions aren’t clear, and he was very funny, which is how I want to be when I am dying ...
