the doors

A big event is happening today, it’s The Doors 50th anniversary year beginning in Venice, California where the band was formed. The groups album The Doors was released on January 4,1967.

Did he or didn't he?

"Strange days have found us," Jim Morrison sang on the title track, and it was undeniably true.

On Sept. 20, 1970, Jim Morrison was arrested in connection with an controversial incident in Miami.

When they originally wandered into Los Angeles' World Pacific Studios, this band was called something else entirely.

Led Zeppelin were on the rise in the summer of 1969, while Doors frontman Jim Morrison was in the midst of a long and painful public downward spiral. On July 27, the two bands met going in opposite directions.

A wildly uneven affair, it went platinum anyway – but likely only because of earlier successes.

Long out-of-print, the first two albums released by the Doors after Jim Morrison died are set for expanded reissue later this year.

The Doors did not have a bass player.

He'd reportedly "been drinking all day" by the time they went on at the Boston Arena.

The Doors debut album and one of the most-played songs on the radio during the 20th century "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin" by the Righteous Brothers and the sounds of a pioneering children’s program are among the recordings recently selected for induction into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry.

There'll be jail time for a pair of Italian crooks who tried to swipe royalties for famous songs written by Paul McCartney, Queen and the Doors.