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"Jim Morrison was standing on the balcony shouting: ‘You guys suck! I got more talent in my big toe than your entire group!'" How Poco invented a brand-new sound - only to have it stolen by the Eagles

While everyone else was getting laid at the Tropicana, "squeaky-clean" Poco created a country-rock template others were quick to borrow

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“The atmosphere was intense. Manson said hello and I froze. There was a feeling of extreme evil in the room”: Jon Keliehor went from an unknown psychedelic group to playing with The Doors, turning down The Byrds and rubbing shoulders with Charles Manson

Jon Keliehor was on the frontlines of the West Coast rock scene in the late 60s

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“An insane killer, a lunatic, he’s going to do something bad. Give him a ride, why don’t you? But when the end comes, you realise Jim’s singing a beautiful, romantic song": The story of the Doors' beautifully bleak masterpiece

It was the last track Jim Morrison recorded

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"When we recorded that song, Jim was on a huge dose of acid." How a simple break-up song evolved into The Doors' darkest, weirdest and most disturbing freak-out

How The End began, then went weird

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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

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Sadness, fear and mistrust in Perth’s Indigenous community after Invasion Day bomb scare: ‘It’s really heavy for our mob over here’

The incident is now being investigated as a ‘potential terrorist act’ but First Nations people say they are left feeling like ‘it’s not a big deal if it happens to Black people’

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“Morrison was very clever. He was a regular guy but he really played that image of his well. He was an actor”: The Byrds’ Roger McGuinn on John Lennon’s dangerous side, the myth of Jim Morrison and the forgotten guitar player who was as good as Hendrix

Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, The Beatles –Roger McGuinn has crossed paths with the them all

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Paris launches lottery for burial plots near Jim Morrison, Édith Piaf and Oscar Wilde

Fancy having your final resting place next to the stars? Parisians are being offered the chance to win a burial spot among some of history's most famous artists, including the Doors' Jim Morrison, author Oscar Wilde and French singer Édith Piaf.

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How mountaineer Jim Morrison made the first skiing descent of Everest's most dangerous route

Mountaineer Jim Morrison has skied the last un-skied route on Mount Everest

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Suede at the Royal Festival Hall: Brett's a hybrid of Jim Morrison and a cat

5/5 Brett Anderson is in fine fettle as Suede continue their electrifying residency at the Southbank Centre

Evening Standard

“All of this posturing is Jim Morrison meets the bloke from Stone Temple Pilots meets everybody else who’s ever owned a pair of leather trousers”: Justin Hawkins backs up his brother’s criticism of Yungblud’s VMAs Ozzy Osbourne tribute

“It’s not authentic”... says the frontman of The Darkness

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“Duane Allman told me he was inspired to pick up slide guitar because he saw me playing with the McCoys. That blows my mind”: The life and times of Rick Derringer, the all-American guitar hero

He was a teen guitar idol with a number one. He played with Johnny Winter, deconstructed Michael Jackson and wrote Hulk Hogan's anthem. He was Rick Derringer, the one and only

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"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

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They’re among the best in British indie. So why have Field Music become a Doors cover band?

Faced with ‘catastrophic financial doom’ in a difficult industry, the Sunderland outfit explain why imitating Jim Morrison is their way to survive

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After 2 hours with the Silent Hill 2 dev's slimy sci-fi beast, Cronos, I'm thrilled it has Dead Space DNA and the soul of Resident Evil: "This is more like a love letter to survival horror than to Poland"

Horror Special | Or, "How to spend two hours in Nowa Huta" – Cronos: The New Dawn is shaping up to be full of terrifying delights

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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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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

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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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Morning Mail: row over right-wing campaigners, inside the ‘womanosphere’, Trump’s call to Putin

Advance Australia hits back after anonymous criticism of group’s campaign efforts; US president claims Ukraine-Russia talks will start ‘immediately’

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Jim Morrison’s long-lost graveside bust turns up during French police search

Police make chance find of sculpture that adorned Doors singer’s Paris grave until its 1988 disappearance

Euronews

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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