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An American Prayer is the ninth and final studio album by the American rock band the Doors.Following the death of Jim Morrison and the band's breakup, the surviving members of the Doors reconvened to set several of Morrison's spoken word recordings to music. [6]
The Doors: A Tribute to Jim Morrison (1981) The Doors: Dance on Fire (1985) The Soft Parade, a Retrospective (1991) The Doors: No One Here Gets Out Alive (2001) Final 24: Jim Morrison (2007), The Biography Channel [234] When You're Strange (2009), Won the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Video in 2011. Rock Poet: Jim Morrison (2010) [235]
The song's lyrics were written by guitarist Robby Krieger, [4] who confirmed that he "tried to get in the subconscious mind" with the lyrics to the song. [5] On the other hand, Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek interpreted the song as just being about "love and sex", [5] while music journalist Gillian G. Gaar described the lyrics as being simply "romantic".
The Ghost Song (Doors song) H. Hello, I Love You; Horse Latitudes (song) Hyacinth House; Hypest Hype; I. I Looked At You; Indian Summer (The Doors song) L. L.A. Woman ...
The Doors' first album, The Doors, re-entered the Billboard 200 album chart in September 1980 and Elektra Records reported the Doors' albums were selling better than in any year since their original release. [162] In response a new compilation album, Greatest Hits, was released in October 1980.
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 ...
The album, along with the film Apocalypse Now, released the previous year, created for the band an entirely new audience of the generation that did not grow up with the Doors. The album went on to become one of the highest-selling compilations of all time, with combined CD and vinyl sales of 5,000,000 in the United States alone.
"The Crystal Ship" is a song by American rock band the Doors, from their 1967 debut album The Doors, and the B-side of the number-one hit single "Light My Fire". It was composed as a love song to Jim Morrison's first serious girlfriend, Mary Werbelow, shortly after their relationship ended. The song borrows from elements from baroque music. [2]