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Rock singer Jim Morrison of the Doors

posing in front of red and yellow psychedelic backdrop

wearing leather head-to-toe.

This was a LIFE magazine assignment

taken at the Second Avenue Theater

according to Yale Joel

Location: US

Date taken: 1968

Photographer: Yale Joel

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=2ff55331999b0882

The Doors – at their best and unforgettable

‘Brian Hinton, author of books about the Isle of Wight,

said the Doors’ performance was an experience never to be forgotten,

the live recording proving without doubt that the Doors were at their best’

From Joni to Jimi:

when rock'n'roll came to the Isle of Wight – in pictures

A new exhibition marks 50 years

since the festival known as ‘Europe’s Woodstock’ took off.

Curator and sculptor Guy Portelli talks us

through photos from its star-studded 1970 event

G

Wed 5 Aug 2020    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/aug/05/
joni-mitchell-jimi-hendrix-isle-of-wight-festival-in-pictures

Jim Morrison

on Why Fat is Beautiful    1969

Jim Morrison on Why Fat is Beautiful

Video    Blank on Blank | PBS Digital Studios

"What's wrong with being fat? That's what I want to know."

- Jim Morrison

Interview by Howard Smith

TheSmithTapes.com / Villagevoice.com

Los Angeles, 1969

Executive Producer: David Gerlach

Animator: Patrick Smith

YouTube > PBS > Blank on Blank        2 April 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhszZ53SEC8

Raymond Daniel Manczarek Jr.    1939-2013

“We knew what the people wanted

 the same thing the Doors wanted. Freedom.”

The Doors around 1966.

From left:

Robby Krieger,

Ray Manzarek,

John Densmore

and Jim Morrison.

Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives,

via Getty Images

Ray Manzarek, 74, Keyboardist and a Founder of the Doors, Is Dead

MAY 20, 2013

NYT

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/
arts/music/ray-manzarek-74-rock-keyboardist-and-a-founder-of-the-doors-is-dead.html

as the keyboardist

and a songwriter for the Doors

(Manzarek) helped shape

one of the indelible bands

of the psychedelic era

(...)

Mr. Manzarek

founded the Doors in 1965

with the singer and lyricist Jim Morrison,

whom he would describe decades later as

“the personification of the Dionysian impulse

each of us has inside.”

They would go on to recruit

the drummer John Densmore

and the guitarist Robby Krieger.

Mr. Manzarek played a crucial role

in creating music

that was hugely popular

and widely imitated,

selling tens of millions of albums.

It was a lean, transparent sound

that could be swinging

haunted, meditative,

suspenseful or circuslike.

The Doors’ songs

were generally credited

to the entire group.

Long after the death

of Mr. Morrison in 1971,

the music of the Doors

remained synonymous with the darker,

more primal impulses

unleashed by psychedelia.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/
arts/music/ray-manzarek-74-rock-keyboardist-and-a-founder-of-the-doors-is-dead.html 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/may/21/ray-manzarek

https://www.npr.org/2017/07/28/
539989187/an-archival-interview-with-ray-manzarek-keyboardist-for-the-doors

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2013/05/21/
185619707/the-doors-keyboard-counterpoint-goes-silent-remembering-ray-manzarek

https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/may/21/ray-manzarek-the-doors-legacy 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/may/21/ray-manzarek-doors-keys 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/may/21/ray-manzarek 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2013/may/21/doors-ray-manzarek-life-in-pictures 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/
arts/music/ray-manzarek-74-rock-keyboardist-and-a-founder-of-the-doors-is-dead.html

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/may/20/ray-manzarek-doors-dies

https://www.npr.org/2010/12/10/
131960761/what-really-happened-at-the-doors-1969-concert

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=6353302 - October 20, 2006

Jim Morrison    1943-1971

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/organization/
the-doors 

http://www.npr.org/artists/15446942/the-doors

https://www.theguardian.com/music/doors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Doors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Doors_discography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Jim_Morrison

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/sep/24/
how-we-made-the-doors-hello-i-love-you-jim-morrison

https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2018/07/06/
625414088/chicano-protests-and-celebrity-portraits-george-rodriguezs-los-angeles

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/aug/06/
marianne-faithfull-boyfriend-killed-jim-morrison

http://www.npr.org/2013/05/24/
185827139/remembering-ray-manzarek-keyboardist-for-the-doors

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/
arts/music/ray-manzarek-74-rock-keyboardist-and-a-founder-of-the-doors-is-dead.html

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/
ray-manzarek-doors-keyboardist-dies-at-74/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/07/business/media/
miss-the-music-of-the-doors-theres-an-ipad-app-for-that.html

https://www.npr.org/2011/12/03/
142855212/the-doors-prove-strange-days-are-still-with-us

https://www.npr.org/2010/12/10/
131960761/what-really-happened-at-the-doors-1969-concert

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/nov/09/
jim-morrison-may-win-pardon

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