It’s hard to imagine anyone other than Val Kilmer playing Jim Morrison in The Doors. While the Oliver Stone-directed rock biopic was critically panned, even the most diehard Doors fans tend to agree ...
Sixty years after Robby Krieger auditioned to join the Doors, the guitarist still marvels at the legacy of the band and the music he made with singer Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek and drummer ...
The Doors pose for their first album cover, 1967. They are keyboardist Ray Manzarek, left, guitarist Robby Krieger, drummer John Densmore and vocalist Jim Morrison. (Mark and Colleen Hayward / Getty ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. John Densmore, the legendary drummer for the Doors, recalls coming ...
On this day in 1970, the Doors unknowingly played their last concert with legendary frontman, the Lizard King himself, Jim Morrison. The fabled, once considered prophetic, rock god didn’t go out with ...
The Doors’ Robby Krieger thinks Oliver Stone’s 1991 film about the band is one of the best rock and roll movies ever made. That movie, and a popular 1980 biography of Doors’ singer Jim Morrison, ...
Jim Morrison would’ve turned 80 years old on December 8, 2023, a feat that may seem like an impossibility from our modern perspective when he’s been a dead legend for far longer than he was a living ...
Recently, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea selected punk rock icons X as his choice for greatest L.A. band. For X lead singer Exene Cervenka, her pick is an equally easy one. “It’s the Hollywood ...