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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 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 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 ...
"Riders on the Storm" has been classified as a psychedelic rock, [8] jazz rock, [9] [10] art rock song, [11] and a precursor of gothic music. [12] [13] According to guitarist Robby Krieger and keyboardist Ray Manzarek, it was inspired by the country song "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend", written by Stan Jones and popularized by Vaughn Monroe. [14]
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 ...
Printable version; In other projects ... The Ghost Song (Doors song) H. Hello, I Love You ... I Looked At You; Indian Summer (The Doors song) L. L.A. Woman (song ...
Printable version; In other projects ... Ghost Song may refer to: Ghost Song, 2022 "Ghost Song ... "Ghost Song", by the Doors from An American Prayer "The Ghost Song ...
The cover for the album is of Jim Morrison as portrayed by Val Kilmer. It is a photo of Kilmer looking straight in the camera's lens.His face is in black and white and his hair has the color of burning flames, it is the same effect created on the movie's posters and advertising material.