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Jim Morrison performing with The Doors at Westbury Music Fair on April 19, 1968. Credit: Michael Pappaceno When The Doors broke on the music scene in 1967, the band's second single, "Light My Fire ...

Jim Morrison’s bright spotlight time with The Doors lasted not quite five years: the band’s debut album arrived in January 1967, and L.A. Woman, the final work to feature the singer, was released the ...

As part of NPR's 50th anniversary, we're looking back at other cultural milestones of 1971. That year The Doors released their final album L.A. Woman — and the band's lead singer Jim Morrison died.

Charlie Crist, Florida’s departing governor, seems ready to pardon Jim Morrison of the Doors for a 1970 conviction, and old animosities are resurfacing.

Jim Morrison spent time at Andy Warhol’s Factory in New York City. ... Regardless of how “People Are Strange” performed in the U.K., the song had an impact on pop culture.

Paris public prosecutors uncovered the cultural artifact during an unrelated search, a source told Agence France-Presse (AFP). Morrison, who died at 27 in 1971, was buried at Père Lachaise ...