![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Their self-titled LP, The Doors, was released in January, 1967. They began playing clubs on the Sunset Strip in 1966 while working on songs for their debut album for Elektra Records. At first they called themselves The Doors of Perception, but soon shortened their name to simple, “The Doors”. Inspired by a line from William Blake’s poem, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite,” the band found their name. They began playing music together and soon recruited drummer, John Densmore and guitarist, Robby Krieger. The story began with the group forming in Venice Beach, California where two UCLA film school students, Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek, met in 1965. The night was Septemwhen The Doors appeared live on The Ed Sullivan Show. One of the most famous chapters in this battle was waged on national television in front of millions of Americans. The Doors rocketed to stardom in the mid 60’s, a time in America when, as keyboardist Ray Manzarek put it, “the battle was between the hip and the non- hip, the heads and the straights, the psychedelics and the squares - and that was basically the battle - the establishment against the hippies.” ![]()
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