Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Doors

“I said, ‘Mike, I don’t know how to tell you this, but that’s a note-for-note guitar solo from...” Mike McCready stole his Alive solo from Kiss – but Ace Frehley had already stolen it from another legendary classic rock band

The revelation comes from Gene Simmons, who sees no problem in bands taking inspiration – and lifting ideas – from others

Guitar World

Val Kilmer was electric as Jim Morrison in heroically ridiculous biopic The Doors

The late actor’s sense of mischief and self-doubt offset the bombast in Oliver Stone’s swaggering, staggering 1991 film

The Guardian - AU

10 of the wildest music conspiracy theories ranked, from Paul is Dead to Taylor Swift as a government psyop

THE COUNTDOWN: Armchair sleuths will have you convinced that Justin Bieber is really a lizard and Stevie Wonder isn’t actually blind. Ellie Muir and Roisin O’Connor unpack some of the weirdest rumours around our biggest pop stars

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Val Kilmer obituary

Star of films such as Top Gun, The Doors and Batman Forever whose acting could combine playfulness and intensity

The Guardian - UK

Val Kilmer dead at 65: Tributes pour in for Hollywood star of Top Gun and Batman Forever as daughter reveals cause of death

Tributes pour in for Val Kilmer following the death of the actor who was once one of Hollywood’s most prominent leading men

Evening Standard

“I threw a party for John Lennon one night, and he sat there at the Moog for four hours making flying saucer sounds”: They set the boyband template, but also introduced the world to the synth

People initially labelled them a fabricated band, but we’ve got the Monkees to thank for being pop's first ever synth players

MusicRadar

"We were so fired up to go on before Jim checked out that we didn't acknowledge his death and grieve": When the music's over - the story of The Doors' strange afterlife

The death of talismanic frontman Jim Morrison in 1971 looked like it marked the end of the road for The Doors. But his bandmates had other ideas

Louder

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

New Jim Morrison documentary puts forward wild conspiracy theory about late Doors frontman

Rock frontman was found dead in a bathtub at his Paris apartment in July 1971

The Independent UK

Grace Slick on sex, drugs and Jefferson Airplane: ‘I was sober in the 80s. That was a mistake’

She topped the charts, dropped the F-bomb on US TV, was ghosted by Jim Morrison and planned to spike Richard Nixon’s tea with LSD. Now 85, the legendary singer tells all

The Guardian - UK

“That was one thing I wanted to get right with Oliver. I went to his house and made sure he knew how that one had happened”: Robby Krieger sets the record straight on how a Doors classic was really written – and what the controversial movie got wrong

Oliver Stone's 1991 movie The Doors was panned for its historical inaccuracy – and Krieger is now clarifying how the band's songwriting process actually played out

Guitar World

"He was so drunk, we couldn't even finish the show": Surviving members of The Doors on the breakdown of the band and life with Jim Morrison

"His real problem was the Oedipus complex": Drummer and guitarist John Densmore and Robbie Krieger speak to Rick Beato

MusicRadar

“They said, You boys will never do this show again!” The Doors' Robby Krieger and John Densmore share their memories of being banned from America's most legendary TV show

On September 17 1967, The Doors performed live on US TV institution The Ed Sullivan Show. They would not be invited back

Louder

“Hendrix took a look at my first album and said: ‘I’ll try it this way’. I don’t appreciate that. But then I can’t play the guitar like him”: The chaotic story of Arthur Lee and Love, the 60s renegades who helped invent the LA scene

The Doors were stars but their Sunset Strip peers Love deserved to be equally famous

Louder

“The Grateful Dead wouldn’t let us use their amps. Ray was aghast – he kept saying, ‘Pigpen? Someone named Pigpen won’t let me use his instrument?’”: With a volatile lead singer and no bass player, they left an indelible mark on rock

The Doors' ever-versatile and underrated guitar slinger, Robby Krieger, charts the band's career – from the difficulties of working with Jim Morrison, his best guitar solo, and the time they consciously stole from Cream

Guitar World

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Louder

Made famous by The Doors, the historic Morrison Hotel has been destroyed by fire

The fire at the Morrison Hotel in downtown Los Angeles was attended by firefighters from 17 different companies

The Guardian - US

Morrison hotel featured on Doors’ album cover burns in Los Angeles fire

Blaze engulfed landmark building where Jim Morrison and bandmates posed for a photograph for their 1970 LP

The Independent UK

'Morrison Hotel' made famous by The Doors goes up in flames in LA

The former Morrison Hotel, made famous by The Doors and their 1970 album sharing the same name, was significantly damaged by a fire in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday

Marie Claire

The 27 Best Biopics About Musicians of All Time

We're still stunned by these performances—many of which took home Oscars.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Louder

“Jim’s attitude was always: ‘Look out, man, I’m hell-bent on destruction.’ We couldn’t moralise”: How The Doors snatched victory from the jaws of chaos to make the classic Morrison Hotel album

By 1970, Jim Morrison was in an alcoholic spiral and facing jail time – but The Doors still managed to make one of their greatest albums in Morrison Hotel

The Guardian - UK

‘Last Nite by the Strokes is dead to me’: Julian Casablancas’s honest playlist

The indie star clears dancefloors with funereal classical music and does Frank Sinatra at karaoke, but what is his unlikely bedroom soundtrack?

Louder

“Jim’s whole shaman thing only became apparent later, after people wrote books about us. To us, he was just the frontman”: Jim Morrison – the man behind the myth, by the people who knew him

Shaman? Lizard King? Visionary? This was the real Jim Morrison, according to his Doors bandmates

Guitar World

The Doors’ Robby Krieger ditches his Gibson SG for a cardboard Telecaster to deliver his own take on a blues classic

Krieger debuts what looks like Cardboard Sessions' first-ever cardboard-built Tele, and trades solos with his son Waylon, who joins him on a matching cardboard Strat

Louder

The 60th anniversary of The Doors is to be celebrated with a box set, a live album and a lavish book

1965 marks the 60th anniversary of Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison's first encounter at Venice Beach

Louder

Doors guitarist Robby Krieger and Stewart Copeland of The Police among the stars confirmed for Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp

Los Angeles camp attendees will learn from former members of The Doors, The Police, Nickelback, Black Sabbath and more

Guitar World

"The first three records of our career, everybody was talking about how we were going to fail. Each next step was going to be a disaster”: Mark Tremonti and Scott Stapp on the unlikely rebirth of Creed – and why they’ve always been cool

Thanks to a pair of sports franchises, a bizarre Super Bowl commercial and some shows that sold out in record time, Creed are back. Here, Stapp and Tremonti tell us how it all went down

1 2 3

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Universal Images Group

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.