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Having Fun with Elvis on Stage: Colonel Parker released an Elvis talking instead of singing album. The album became the worst-selling Elvis Presley album ever.
Paris offers lottery burial plots near Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, and Chopin in famous cemeteries like Père Lachaise, Montparnasse, and Montmartre.
From "Light My Fire" to "L.A. Woman," Immersed 1967–1971 lets fans relive The Doors’ evolution through rich, immersive Dolby Atmos sound.
Explore 60 years of The Doors with Apple Maps' new guide featuring 20 legendary locations—from Los Angeles music venues to Jim Morrison’s grave in Paris.
Is Jim Morrison still alive? A new documentary explores the enduring theory that The Doors’ frontman faked his death to escape fame and live in secrecy.
Step inside The Chateau Marmont Hollywood Handbook, a dazzling insider’s guide to Hollywood’s most legendary hotel, where glamour, scandal, and history collide.
Celebrate The Doors' 60th anniversary with Night Divides the Day, a limited edition anthology featuring rare photos, interviews, and a foreword by Krist Novoselic.
"Forever Changes: The Authorized Biography Of Arthur Lee And Love" by John Einarson is a top rock read. Look out for the updated edition with Johnny Echols' new foreword.
Robby Krieger and The Soul Savages craft an immersive musical narrative that transcends traditional genres, delivering a dynamic and diverse experience for avid listeners.
‘I See You Live On Love Street: Music From Laurel Canyon 1967-1975’ charts the scene’s birth and gradual development until a relocated Fleetwood Mac 70s new sound.
Doors fans got an early Christmas present this year with a newly released song. The unsalvageable "Paris Blues" surfaced this year as a brand-new polished song.
Bob Batchelor presents Roadhouse Blues: Morrison, the Doors, and Death Days of the Sixties, an enthralling, epic tale of one of rock’s most significant periods.
That question has haunted Jeff Finn since 1985 when he first researched the infamous vocalist and lyricist of the legendary 1960s rock band, The Doors. Finn is the writer, director and narrator of Before the End: Searching for Jim Morrison, a forthcoming limited film series that rips the hinges off Morrison's purported official story. Indie film production company Z-Machine has released a new extended preview of this hard-boiled but empathic documystery. What If everything we think we know about Jim Morrison is wrong?
At long last Robby Krieger has written his first book that Doors' fans will fall in love with. He is of the last three surviving band members after the death of Jim Morrison kept his silence from book form. Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying, and Playing Guitar With the Doors with a little help from Jeff Alulis brings to the forefront an added view of perhaps the greatest band from the 60s. The legend of Jim Morrison has grown in 50 years and still keeps growing. I think we can put to rest that Jim Morrison is not alive. All the literature and music out there sustain Jim and the rest of the group alive for many generations to follow.
It was 50 years ago that Jim Morrison died. Morrison's death is still shrouded in mystery. His legend grew 9 years later with the release of No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman and The Doors' Greatest Hits album in 1980. The celebration of the Lizard King still continues as The Collected Works of Jim Morrison was released this month.
This year marks 50 years since the passing of Jim Morrison. Jim took the route of stardom as the singer of The Doors. He always fancied himself as a poet and wanted to be taken seriously in that craft. The Lords and the New Creatures, Morrison's first book, was published in 1970 and was considered pretentious at best. His Dionysus complex made him a drunkard buffoon in the eyes of the literary world. Doors fans on the other hand consider his poetic material differently. Morrison is getting the royal treatment with a definite anthology of all his writing. For the first time, unpublished material will be released to the public. The Collected Works of Jim Morrison is an almost 600-page anthology of the writings that promises to please all fans of Jim Morrison.
2001: A Space Odyssey changed cinema and art in 1968. Jim Morrison and the Doors were present at the world premiere in Los Angeles. Both Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison graduated as film students from UCLA. This was a big cinematic experience for them.