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“By doing maybe one Doors show a month we can fill a hole in our dire finances”: Mercury-nominated UK band Field Music are working as a tribute act

“Any embarrassment I might have felt about doing this has dissolved," the band explain, while thoroughly detailing their predicament

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“Jim would come in too drunk to sing decently. Sometimes it was a phrase at a time”: The tortured story of The Doors’ Waiting For The Sun, the album that set Jim Morrison on the path to destruction

Three albums in and Jim Morrison was heading down a dark path

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Developers are Backing out of Roblox The Hatch Egg Hunt, and You’ll Want to Know Why

Despite the huge excitement over The Hatch 2025 Egg Hunt, there are many developers backing out of the event just weeks before it's due to start. If

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Bust of Doors singer Jim Morrison that was stolen nearly 40 years ago has been recovered

Police have found a bust of Jim Morrison that was stolen nearly four decades ago from the Paris grave that has long been a place of pilgrimage for fans of the legendary Doors singer and poet

The Independent UK

Jim Morrison's stolen gravestone bust recovered by police after nearly four decades

The bust was installed to mark the 10th anniversary of The Doors' frontman's death in 1971

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Jim Morrison's stolen grave memorial found

Jim Morrison's grave memorial bust was stolen in 1988, but now French police have recovered it during a fraud investigation by the police's financial and anti-corruption department.

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“When asked about his family, Jim would often explain that his parents – still very much alive – were dead”: How The Doors’ Jim Morrison went from from drunken teen rebel to leather-clad 60s rock god

Drunkenness, arrests, ambition – Jim Morrison’s wayward childhood paved the way for the future

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Jim Morrison bust found in ‘chance discovery’ after disappearing from Paris cemetery 37 years ago

The marble carving went missing from the iconic singer’s grave in Paris’s Pere-Lachaise cemetery in 1988

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Bust of The Doors' Jim Morrison, stolen from Père Lachaise cemetery, found 37 years later

The mythical bust that once sat on top of Jim Morrison's grave in Paris has been found by accident during a search linked to a case of fraud. It remains to be determined whether the Père Lachaise cemetery will get the sculpture back.

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"On stage, I'd surrender to the ritual. It was like a meditation": Robby Krieger and John Densmore remember life with Jim Morrison and tell the acid-fuelled story of The Doors

Sixty years after The Doors took audiences on a destination-unknown thrill ride, Robby Krieger and John Densmore tell the band's wild story

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“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

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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

Val Kilmer obituary

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

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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

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“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

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"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

The Independent UK

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

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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

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“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

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"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

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“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

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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

Guitar World

“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

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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

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