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The Doors postersFormed in 1965 in Los Angeles, The Doors were composed by singer James Douglas Morrison (born December 8, 1943 in Melbourne, Florida), keyboardist Ray Manzarek (born February 12, 1935 in Chicago) guitarist Robby Krieger (born January 8, 1946 in Los Angeles) and drummer John Densmore (born December 1, 1945 in Los Angeles). The beginnings of the band got their start on the campus of UCLA where four members were studying film. Jim Morrison, the son of a senior military official, was a big fan of music and books. After reading William Blake with phrases like "If the Doors of Perception Were Cleansed, Everything Would Appear to as it is, infinite" and "There Are Things That Are Things That Are Known and unknown, in between Are the doors" and decided to create a group that called The Doors. In 1965 Manzarek had met an amateur group in which they played brothers named Rick & The Ravens. After the entry of Morrison, Densmore and Krieger (the latter two from the Psychedelic Rangers) in the band and leaving Manzarek's brothers (who did not like the songs written by Morrison) definitely the initial idea came from Jim Morrison, The Doors. The group began performing in the best known clubs in the city and its unique sound highlighted by Manzarek organ (one of the greatest keyboardists in the history of rock) and the strange lyrics and vocal skills and stage of Morrison managed to attract a large group of fans. It was Arthur Lee, the brilliant leader of Love, who after witnessing the spectacular performances of the Doors Elektra recommended to the signing of the band. So did the company introduced the first full length album which they called simply "The Doors" (1967). Although we tend to lock in the Doors' psychedelia inherent in its cultural context, the truth is that this is a unique and unclassifiable supernally rich sonic textures and structures (due to the greater ability they possessed as instrumentalists). In "The Doors", we find from a poetic perspective pieces rock, pop, blues, psychedelia involved in Morrison's powerful voice. Topics such as "Break on trough (on the Other Side)", "The End" or "Light My Fire" (number 1 in the U.S.) remain as one of the most lucid compositions of his time. The disc was a bestseller. His second album was "Strange Days" (1968), another extraordinary example of the quality of the band containing huge songs like "People are strange" or "When The Music's Over." In his third LP "Waiting for the Sun" (1968) come included his second No. 1 USA, "Hello I Love You" a beautiful song I remembered enough to "All day and all of the night" from the Kinks, so Ray Davies took legal action left in the pan. "Waiting for the sun" is another brilliant album with great tracks like "The Unknown Soldier", "Love Street" or "Five To One." If the vinyl of The Doors was glorious, his concerts were more than suggestive, especially by the ability of frontman Jim Morrison, who was becoming more hanging on drugs and alcohol. His European tour raised eyebrows, particularly his performances in the capital. In 1969 they completed their fourth album, "The Soft Parade" (1969), one of the most abused discs of his career that turns out to be another great collection of seductive songs like "Touch Me", "Wishful Sinful" and "The Soft Parade" , praised by a ubiquitous metal section. An incident at a concert held in Miami with an increasingly led to the cancellation Morrison lost for an extended period of further action. The singer was arrested in full concert with charges of indecent exposure, profanity, public drunkenness and lewd conduct. Previously, he was arrested in Connecticut for similar complaints. Would subsequently acquitted of all charges less than blasphemy. Morrison published some books of poetry and the Doors responded to this climate of uncertainty about the future of the band after the serious incidents, the closure of censorship in many concerts and radio stations with the valuable "Morrison Hotel" (1970), an album soaked R & B with great songs like "Roadhouse Blues", "Waiting for the sun", "You make me real," "The Spy" or "Queen of the Highway." Later appear the live "Absolutely Live" (1970) and his latest work with Morrison "LA Woman" (1971), a good album containing the classic "Riders on the storm." Jim Morrison by that time was sick of the music industry and turned all his artistic endeavors as he liked, literature. To continue his fledgling literary career with his wife Pam moved to one of the cradles of world cultural heritage, Paris. Sadly, on July 3, 1971 was found dead in the bathtub, had died of a heart attack resulting from a strong addiction to heroin. He was 27 years, surprisingly the same as Brian Jones, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix at the time of their deaths. The body of Jim Morrison is buried in the Parisian cemetery Pere Lachaise. On the other hand, his wife Pam, also die in 1974 of a heroin overdose. Without Morrison, the remaining members tried to keep training with the recording of albums like "Other Voices" (1971) or "Full Circle" (1972) but with little success. The Doors would cease to exist in 1973 leaving an impressive musical legacy and essential. |
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