Rock legends The Doors clashed with one of television’s most influential figures when they deliberately defied him on his eponymous television series, earning a ban for life. On September 17, 1967, ...

A wild ride through the life of Jim Morrison, the rock poet who refused to play by anyone’s rules. Still haunting our ...

Considering the fact that Jim Morrison has been revered as a counterculture icon for decades, many fans would be surprised to learn that his favorite singers included such classic crooners as Bing ...

Val Kilmer's uncanny incarnation of dead rocker Jim Morrison is the best part of "The Doors' Probably the tackiest subgenre of showbiz is the impersonation of dead celebrities. And Oliver Stone's new ...

This story originally aired on Sept. 1, 2021. Fifty years ago, on July 3, 1971, Jim Morrison — lead singer of the rock group The Doors — died in Paris. It was the first year of NPR and Mike Walters, ...

Inspiration can come from the strangest and, at times, most unsettling of places, as was the case for the iconic Doors hit, “Riders on the Storm,” born from Jim Morrison’s macabre interest in a ...