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"It reminded me of the politics of fear, like we're doing today": How the LA club scene in the 1960s shaped American rock then sparked a revolution

The Doors to a riot: Six months in the life of Sunset Strip

"She pulls out these two long steel pins and I start screaming and she plunges them into her eyes": The acid-dazed adventures of the band that became Blue Öyster Cult

"She pulls out these two long steel pins and I start screaming and she plunges them into her eyes": The acid-dazed adventures of the band that became Blue Öyster Cult

Blue Öyster Cult were one of the weirdest bands of the early 1970s, but they began even more strangely

"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

"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

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“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

“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

"We do an incredible version of Forever Changes, close your eyes and you’re listening to the record": Arthur Lee may be gone, but Love have found a way forward

Love's Forever Changes is coming to the UK in full, and if you're lucky it'll be orchestrated

Light My Fire turned The Doors into superstars: For a moment, it also turned Jim Morrison into a target for the Mob

The Doors experienced their first taste of big success with Light My Fire, but it infuriated a certain Frank Sinatra

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"When I first heard it, driving round LA, it sounded great, it leapt out of the speakers": the story of The Doors' Love Her Madly

"When I first heard it, driving round LA, it sounded great, it leapt out of the speakers": the story of The Doors' Love Her Madly

The Doors' Robby Krieger reveals how he came to write Love Her Madly, how Jim Morrison loved it, and how their producer didn't

Robby Krieger's track-by-track guide to his favourite songs by The Doors

Robby Krieger's track-by-track guide to his favourite songs by The Doors

"Why would a young man like Jim think so much about death? Sure he was a poet. But my theory was that he always felt he had something wrong" - Robby Krieger

‘It paved the way for all of us’: the classic garage rock compilation Nuggets at 50

‘It paved the way for all of us’: the classic garage rock compilation Nuggets at 50

Half a century on from its release, we track down the surviving artists from the hugely influential record and hear how the double LP changed their lives and careers

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