Featuring "Light my Fire", "Touch Me", "Break on Through", "Riders on the Storm", "Hello, I Love You" "People Are Strange", and more! The lives of Jim Morrison and ...

This is FRESH AIR. This weekend it will be 50 years since "Light My Fire" by a rock group called The Doors hit the No. 1 spot on the Billboard singles chart. To celebrate that anniversary, we'll ...

The Los Angeles home where The Doors guitarist Robby Krieger penned the band’s hit psychedelic rock single “Light My Fire” was destroyed in the Palisades Fire. Krieger — a founding member of the ...

In 1967, Robby Krieger, the guitarist for L.A. band the Doors, wrote the hit single “Light My Fire” in the living room of his parents’ Pacific Palisades home. This week, nearly six decades later, the ...

The first time Jim Morrison yelled at his Doors bandmates, it was in 1968, and the other three musicians committed what to Morrison amounted to a cardinal sin. They had arranged for one of their songs ...

Jim Morrison would’ve turned 80 years old on December 8, 2023, a feat that may seem like an impossibility from our modern perspective when he’s been a dead legend for far longer than he was a living ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Jose Feliciano had no intention of writing a holiday standard when he met with producer Rick Jarrard on a hot summer day in the singer’s LA home to discuss the track list for a Christmas album they ...

Recently, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea selected punk rock icons X as his choice for greatest L.A. band. For X lead singer Exene Cervenka, her pick is an equally easy one. “It's the Hollywood ...