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"Back Door Man" is a blues song written by American musician Willie Dixon and recorded by Howlin' Wolf in 1960. The lyrics draw on a Southern U.S. cultural term for an extramarital affair. The song is one of several Dixon-Wolf songs that became popular among rock musicians, including the Doors who recorded it for their 1967 self-titled debut album.
The book The Doors, by the remaining Doors, quotes Morrison's close friend Frank Lisciandro as saying that too many people took a remark of Morrison's that he was interested in revolt, disorder, and chaos "to mean that he was an anarchist, a revolutionary, or, worse yet, a nihilist. Hardly anyone noticed that Jim was paraphrasing Rimbaud and ...
The chorus from the album's single "People Are Strange" inspired the name of the 2009 documentary of the Doors, When You're Strange. [ 23 ] Although session musician Larry Knechtel had occasionally contributed bass on the band's debut album, [ 52 ] Strange Days was the first Doors album recorded with a studio musician, playing bass on the ...
No One Here Gets Out Alive was the first biography about the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band the Doors, Jim Morrison, published in 1980. [1] Its title is taken from a line in the Doors' song "Five to One", [2] and the book is divided into three sections: The Bow is Drawn, The Arrow Flies and The Arrow Falls, for the early years of Morrison's life, his rise to fame with the Doors, and ...
Light My Fire: My Life with the Doors. New York City: Berkley Boulevard Books. ISBN 0-425-17045-4. Shepherd, John (2003). Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: VolumeII: Performance and Production, Volume 11. Continuum. ISBN 978-0-8264-6322-7. Weidman, Rich (2011). The Doors FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Kings of Acid Rock.
The concert is one of the longest live performances by the Doors. Among the 25 songs played that night, the group played eight blues standards such as "Back Door Man", Junior Parker's "Mystery Train" and "Crossroads" by Robert Johnson.
In Manzarek's biography of the Doors, Light My Fire, he often criticizes Stone and his account of Morrison. For example, in Stone's re-creation of Morrison's student film at UCLA, Morrison watches a D-Day sequence on television and shouts profanities in German , with a near-nude German exchange student dancing on top of the television sporting ...
Archive film in the documentary is drawn from Granada TV's The Doors Are Open, the band's appearance at the Hollywood Bowl in July 1968, snippets from the then unreleased film Feast of Friends, the opening scene of Apocalypse Now featuring the Doors' song "The End" and television appearances on The Jonathan Winters Show, The Ed Sullivan Show ...