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May 20, 2013 · You are now with Jim and Ronnie!" Ray Manzarek, the legendary keyboardist who founded The Doors in 1965 with fellow UCLA film school alum Jim Morrison, died of cancer Monday at age 74. Manzarek ...
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May 24, 2013 · DAVIES: Ray Manzarek, whose keyboard work helped define the distinctive sound of the '60s rock band The Doors, died Monday in Germany after a long battle with cancer. He was 74. Manzarek was ...
Co-founder of the Doors whose keyboard playing shaped the band's trademark style. Adam Sweeting. Tue 21 May 2013 13.33 EDT. Ray Manzarek, who has died of bile duct cancer aged 74, created...
- He could have been another Francis Coppola. As a graduate student in UCLA's film school, Manzarek was so talented that Colin Young, the director of the program, said that he could have gone straight to directing films.
- He was the reason the Doors didn't need a bass player. When the band auditioned at an L.A. nightclub, Manzarek noticed another group's Fender Rhodes keyboard bass onstage, and it occurred to him that he could play it with his left hand while playing piano and organ riffs with his right.
- He got into a legal battle over the Doors' music. Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger got into a bitter legal dispute with Doors' drummer John Densmore over Cadillac's 2003 offer to pay $15 million to use "Break on Through" in a TV spot.
- He was a successful author. Manzarek wrote a best-selling memoir about his experiences, Light My Fire: My Life with The Doors, in 1998, and a 2oo2 novel, The Poet in Exile, about a Morrison-like rock star who fakes his own death and then, decades later, resurfaces.
May 21, 2013 · Manzarek, who was responsible for the piercing electric organ sound on “Light My Fire” and most of the L.A. group’s cornerstone songs, died Monday at a medical clinic in Rosenheim,...
May 21, 2013 · Ray Manzarek, the founding keyboardist of the Los Angeles rock band The Doors, died in a clinic in Germany on Monday after a lengthy battle with bile duct cancer, according to his publicist. He...
