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L.A. Woman is the sixth studio album by the American rock band the Doors, released on April 19, 1971, by Elektra Records.It is the last to feature lead singer Jim Morrison during his lifetime, due to his death exactly two months and two weeks following the album's release, though he would posthumously appear on the 1978 album An American Prayer.
"L.A. Woman" is a song by the American rock band the Doors. The song is the title track of their 1971 album L.A. Woman , the final album to feature Jim Morrison before his death on July 3, 1971. In 2014, LA Weekly named it the all-time best song written about the city of Los Angeles.
"Love Her Madly" is a song by American rock band the Doors. It was released in March 1971 and was the first single from L.A. Woman, their final album with singer Jim Morrison. "Love Her Madly" became one of the highest-charting hits for the Doors; it peaked at number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and reached number three in Canada.
The title track and two singles ("Love Her Madly" and "Riders on the Storm") remain mainstays of rock radio programming, [120] with the latter being inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for its special significance to recorded music. In the song "L.A. Woman", Morrison makes an anagram of his name to chant "Mr. Mojo Risin". [121]
Like Morrison Hotel before it, L.A. Woman relied very heavily on the blues, which was a genre of music the Doors had often incorporated into their early live sets while the house band at the London Fog, a nightclub on the Sunset Strip, in Los Angeles. L.A. Woman was certified gold and platinum in several different countries.
After recording L.A. Woman with the Doors in Los Angeles, Morrison announced to the band his intention to go to Paris. [94] His bandmates generally felt it was a good idea. [ 95 ] [ 96 ] [ 97 ] In March 1971, Morrison took a leave of absence from The Doors [ 98 ] [ 99 ] [ 100 ] and joined girlfriend Pamela Courson in Paris at an apartment she ...
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Live in Philadelphia '70 is a double live album recorded by American rock band the Doors in 1970. The performance took place in The Spectrum . This is part of previously unreleased material of the Bright Midnight Archives collection of live albums by the Doors.