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"Light My Fire" is a song by the American rock band the Doors. Although it was principally written by the band's guitarist, Robby Krieger, [6] songwriting was credited to the entire band. Recognized as one of the earliest examples of psychedelic rock, [7] it was recorded in August 1966 and released in January 1967 on their eponymous debut album.
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.
Doors drummer John Densmore later explained the story of the line: After we recorded the song, he wrote "Mr. Mojo Rising" on a board and said, "Look at this." He moves the letters around and it was an anagram for his name. I knew that mojo was a sexual term from the blues, and that gave me the idea to go slow and dark with the tempo.
The Doors guitarist Robby Krieger (left foreground) wrote the lyrics to the band’s hit “Light My Fire” in 1966 in his parents’ Alma Real Drive home in Pacific Palisades — a property that ...
In 1967, Robby Krieger, the guitarist for L.A. band the Doors, wrote the hit single "Light My Fire" in the living room of his parents' Pacific Palisades home.
Ed Sullivan requested two songs from the Doors for the show, "People Are Strange" and "Light My Fire". [ 65 ] [ 66 ] Sullivan's censors insisted that the Doors change the lyrics of the song "Light My Fire" from "Girl we couldn't get much higher" to "Girl we couldn't get much better" for the television viewers; this was reportedly due to what ...
The Doors made a steady climb up the Billboard 200, ultimately becoming a huge success in the US once the edited single version of "Light My Fire" scaled the charts to become No. 1, with the album peaking at No. 2 on the chart in September 1967 (kept off the top stop by the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band) and going on to achieve ...
Alive, She Cried is the second official live album by the American rock band the Doors, released in October 1983 by Elektra Records.It is the follow-up to the 1970's Absolutely Live, produced by Paul A. Rothchild.