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Easy Ride (Doors song) The End (The Doors song) End of the Night; Five to One; Get Up and Dance (The Doors song) The Ghost Song (Doors song) Gloria (Them song) Hello, I Love You; Horse Latitudes (song) Hyacinth House; I Looked At You; In the Midnight Hour; Indian Summer (The Doors song) L.A. Woman (song) Light My Fire; Love Her Madly; Love Me ...
Film directors Quentin Tarantino, [2] Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese and William Friedkin had all flirted with making a Doors biopic over the years. [3] In 1985, Columbia Pictures acquired the rights from the Doors and the Morrison estate to make a film. Producer Sasha Harari wanted filmmaker Oliver Stone to write the screenplay but never ...
The book The Doors, by the remaining Doors, quotes Morrison's close friend Frank Lisciandro as saying that too many people took a remark of Morrison's that he was interested in revolt, disorder, and chaos "to mean that he was an anarchist, a revolutionary, or, worse yet, a nihilist. Hardly anyone noticed that Jim was paraphrasing Rimbaud and ...
In April 2018, the film Break On Thru: A Celebration of Ray Manzarek and the Doors premiered at the 2018 Asbury Park Music & Film Festival. The film highlights the 2016 concert in honor of what would have been Manzarek's 79th birthday, including new footage and interviews. The film won the APMFF Best Film Feature Award at the festival. [55]
The film has a 46% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 13 reviews. [2] Buffy de Latour of SciFiNow awarded the film three stars out of five. [3] Alex Saveliev of Film Threat rated the film a 6 out of 10. [4] Jeffrey M. Anderson of Common Sense Media awarded the film three stars out of five. [5] Cath Clarke of The Guardian awarded the film two ...
In 2011, the Doors received a Grammy Award in Best Long Form Music Video for the film When You're Strange, directed by Tom DiCillo. [ 180 ] In 2012, Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time included three of their studio albums; the self-titled album at number 42, L.A. Woman at number 362, and Strange Days at number 407.
Densmore is also noted for his veto of attempts by the other two Doors members, in the wake of singer Jim Morrison's 1971 death, to accept offers to license the rights to various Doors songs for commercial purposes as well as his objections to their use in the 21st century of the Doors name and logo. Densmore's lengthy court battles to gain ...
The use of the Doors song "The End", from their debut album, in the popular Vietnam War film, Apocalypse Now in 1979 and the release of the first compilation album in seven years, Greatest Hits, released in the fall of 1980, created a resurgence in the Doors. Due to those two events, an entirely new audience, too young to have known of the band ...