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Jim Morrison would have been 80 today: Ten Doors songs that perhaps not everyone knows
Jim Morrison died on July 3, 1971 of heart failure, presumably caused by a heroin overdose.
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Doors singer Jim Morrison was born exactly 80 years ago. Despite his early death in 1971, the band’s music is still very popular today. We remember the band with ten songs that are not quite as well known as “Light my Fire” or “The End”.
He was one of the biggest rock stars of the sixties. 80 years ago, on December 8, 1943, Jim Morrison, the charismatic frontman of the Doors, was born. Morrison only played with the Doors for four years. During this time, songs were created that are still part of the regular repertoire of radio stations and party DJs almost five decades later. These include the hard-to-kill “Light my Fire” with its succinct organ intro and the cheerfully storming “Break on Through (To the Other Side)”. And the almost twelve-minute Oedipus hymn “The End” is also deeply rooted in cultural memory thanks to its use in Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam drama “Apocalypse Now”.
We remember the band with ten songs that are not quite as well known – but are just as worth listening to.
Let’s get started “Tact It As It Comes”, a song from the self-titled debut album “The Doors” that threatens to get lost among all the hits like “Break On Through (To The Other Side)”, Kurt Weill’s “Alabama Song”, “Light My Fire” or “The End”. Here he is at the front. Also the enchanted one “The Crystal Ship” is one of the more unknown songs on the debut – wrongly so.
“My Eyes Have Seen You” and “Strange Days” are taken from the band’s second album, which was also released in 1967 and which contained two hits with the eleven-minute “When The Music’s Over” and the title song “People Are Strange”.
From the third album “Waiting for the Sun” the songs “Hello, I Love You” and “The Unknown Soldier” were released as singles in 1968. We play instead “Love Street” and “Yes The River Knows”. From the fourth album “The Soft Parade”. “Touch Me” taken, the LP “Morrison Hotel” is included “Indian Summer” represented as well as a jazz version of “Queen of the Highway”.
We then play one of the better known pieces from her last work “LA Woman”: “Riders On The Storm”. It just suits the weather in Hamburg too well.
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