Of all the seminal American 60s bands, The Doors were far and away the most important, as well as the most controversial and, not coincidently, the most enduring. Their influence is heard in much of the post-punk music that has emerged from both Britain and America, and today, almost two decades since the mysterious death of singer Jim Morrison, their records continue to outsell most successful working rock bands. Average sales exceed a million LPs a year.
The outrage of The Doors' stage appearances has passed into legend; their embrace of the counter culture, their troubles with the law and their personal scandals are lodged in the memory of two generations - those who first saw the band in the 1960s and now a new generation which has discovered The Doors and Morrison through Danny Sugerman's best selling biography, No One Here Gets Out Alive.
Now Sugerman -friend, confidante and aide to the band - presents all Doors fans with a definitive and authorised history of the whole band.
This comprehensive Illustrated History assembles interviews, newspaper reports, record and concert reviews, trial transcripts, FBI reports and magazine articles with hundreds of colour and black & white photographs, to give a month by month, album by album visual record of The Doors' amazing career.
The story begins at the UCLA where the band was first proposed and follows the members through time up to Morrison's strange death in Paris in 1971.