The Doors
One of the most iconic bands to rise from the Sixties California
counter-culture, Jim Morrison's poetic lyrics and magnetic charisma gave a dark
under-current to The Doors' psychedelic pop rock. Named after the Alduos Huxley
novel The Doors of Perception, they earned their spurs as a house band at the
notorious Whisky A Go Go club on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles before signing with
Elektra Records and releasing the classic debut album The Doors (1967). Light My
Fire gave the band a huge US Number 1 single but in a haze of drugs, sexuality
and Eastern mysticism it was Morrison's wi...
