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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, [7] songwriting was credited to the entire band. Recognized as one of the earliest examples of psychedelic rock, [8] it was recorded in August 1966 and released in January 1967 on their eponymous debut album.
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 ...
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 ...
Light My Fire: A Classic Rock Salute to the Doors is a tribute album dedicated to the Doors. It was produced by Yes member Billy Sherwood and it features Ian Gillan, Todd Rundgren, Steve Hillage and many others. [1] It was released on June 24, 2014, by Purple Pyramid Records. [2]
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.
It took 17 fire companies about an hour and a half to get the flames under control, according to a report by KTLA-TV Los Angeles. “Morrison Hotel” is marked by a grittier sound that befits a ...
The album was released from the Bright Midnight Archives collection which contains a number of previously unreleased live concerts by the Doors. [ 11 ] PopMatters music critic Steve Horowitz observed in his review of Live at the Matrix 1967 , entitled "Money...That's What I Want," [ 12 ] that the Rhino CD was not sourced from Peter Abram's ...
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.