This page is about the rock band. For their self-titled debut album, see The Doors (album); for the Oliver Stone film, see The Doors (film).
The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles by keyboardist Ray Manzarek, vocalist Jim Morrison, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger. They were one of the most controversial bands of their time, due mostly to Morrison's cryptic lyrics and unpredictable stage persona. Since the band's dissolution in the early 1970s — and especially since Morrison's death in 1971 — interest in the Doors' music has remained high.

History
The origins of The Doors lay in a chance meeting between acquaintances and UCLA film school students Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek on Venice Beach, California in July 1965. Morrison told Manzarek he had been writing songs and, at Manzarek's encouragement, sang "Moonlight Drive". Impressed by Morrison's lyrics, Manzarek suggested they form a band.
Keyboardist Ray Manzarek was in a band called Rick And The Ravens with his brother Rick Manzarek, while Robby Krieger and John Densmore were playing with The Psychedelic Rangers and knew Manzarek from yoga and meditation classes. In August, Densmore joined the group and along with members of the Ravens and bass player Patty Sullivan, recorded a six-song demo in September 1965. This was widely bootlegged and appeared in full on the 1997 Doors box set.
That month the group recruited guitarist Robby Krieger and the final lineup — Morrison, Manzarek, Krieger and Densmore — was complete. The band took their name from the title of a book by Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, which was in turn borrowed from a line in a poem by the 18th century artist and poet William Blake: "If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite". In concert, Morrison was occasionally dismissive of the song, and left the vocal chores to Manzarak.
By 1966 the group was playing The London Fog club and soon graduated to the prestigious Whisky a Go Go. On August 10, they were spotted by Elektra Records president Jac Holzman who was present at the recommendation of Love singer Arthur Lee, whose group was on Elektra. After Holzman and producer Paul A. Rothchild saw two sets of the band playing at the Whisky a Go Go, they signed them to the Elektra Records label on August 18—the start of a long and successful partnership with Rothchild and engineer Bruce Botnick.
The timing was fortuitous, because on August 21 the club fired the band after a profanity-filled performance of "The End". In an incident that foreshadowed the controversy that would follow the group, a tripping Morrison raucously recited his own rendition of the Greek drama Oedipus Rex in which the play's protagonist Oedipus kills his father and has sex with his mother. Morrison's version consisted of "Father? Yes son? I want to kill you. Mother? I want to fuck you".

Origins: 1965–1966

1966–1971
The Doors' self-titled debut LP was recorded in August 1966 and released in the first week of January 1967. It featured most of the major songs from their set, including the 11-minute musical drama, "The End". The band recorded the album in a few days in late August and early September 1966, almost entirely live in the studio with many songs captured in a single take.
Morrison and Manzarek directed a promotional film for the lead single "Break On Through", a significant advance in the development of the music video genre.
The second single, "Light My Fire", became a smash hit in the summer of 1967, and established the group — in the vein of the Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead — as one of America's vital counterculture bands. For AM radio airplay, the long middle organ and guitar solos were cut out from the song.
In May 1967, The Doors made their television debut by recording a version of "The End" for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) at their Yorkville Studios in Toronto. It remained unseen since its original broadcast until the release of The Doors Soundstage Performances DVD in 2002.
The Doors earned a reputation as a rebellious live act. With his stage presence and skin-tight leather trousers, Morrison became a sex symbol, although he soon became frustrated with the strictures of stardom. Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) network censors demanded that Morrison change the lyrics to "Light My Fire" by altering the line, "Girl, we couldn't get much higher," before the band performed the song live on September 17, 1967, on the Ed Sullivan Show. The line was changed to, "Girl, we couldn't get much better". However, Morrison sang the original line, and on live television with no delay, CBS was powerless to stop it. A furious Ed Sullivan refused to shake the band members' hands, and they were never invited back to the show. According to Manzarek, the band was told they would never do the Ed Sullivan show again; Morrison replied, " So what. We just did the Ed Sullivan Show "—at the time, an appearance was a hallmark of success. Manzarek claims the band agreed with the producer beforehand but had no intention of altering the line. They also performed a new single, "People Are Strange", which they repeated for DJ Murray The K's TV show on September 22.
Morrison cemented his status as a rebel on December 10 when he was arrested in New Haven, Connecticut, for badmouthing the police to the audience. Morrison said he had been maced by a police officer after he was caught backstage with a girl.
On December 24, The Doors taped "Light My Fire" and "Moonlight Drive" live for the Jonathan Winters Show. From December 26 to December 28 the group played at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. An excerpt taken from Stephen Davis' book on Jim Morrison p.219-220: "The next night at Winterland, a TV set was wheeled onstage during the Doors set so the band could see themselves on the Jonathan Winters Show. They stopped playing Back Door Man when their song came on. The audience watched the Doors watching themselves on TV. They finished the song when their bit was done, and Ray walked over and turned the TV off. The next night was their last ever in Winterland."They played two more dates in Denver on December 30 and December 31, capping off a year of almost constant touring.

1966–67: The Doors
The second Doors LP, Strange Days, was less spontaneous than their debut, but it was noted for its evocative lyrics and atmosphere. The closing track, "When the Music's Over", was, like "The End", lengthy and dramatic, and helped establish Morrison's reputation as the shaman of rock. The album was also commercial and featured now-classic Doors songs such as "People Are Strange" and "Love Me Two Times".
As a result of their success, The Doors forfeited their status as underground heroes. They allowed Sixteen magazine to portray them as teen idols and their "spontaneous" stage-show was exposed as not-so-spontaneous. An article by Jerry Hopkins in the February 10, 1968 edition of Rolling Stone typified the fall from grace:
"One shtick, or piece of stage-business, missing at the Shrine performance, was Morrison's carefully-executed 'accidental' fall from the stage into the crowd. For months this had been a part of the act. It got a lot of screams from the teenyboppers. Then a review appeared in a local newspaper which called the fall one of the phoniest things ever. Morrison was asked if he had read the article. 'Yeah,' said Morrison, 'and I guess he's right.' Morrison did not take the fall that night at the Shrine."

1967: Strange Days
In April, the recording of the third album was marred by tension as a result of Morrison's increasing dependence on alcohol. Approaching the height of their popularity, the Doors played a series of outdoor shows that led to frenzied scenes between fans and police, particularly at Chicago Coliseum on May 10.
The band began to branch out from their initial form in their third LP, because they had exhausted their original repertoire and began writing new material. It became their first #1 LP and the single "Hello, I Love You" was their second and last US #1 single. This further isolated them from the underground cognoscenti. In 1969 Rock Encyclopedia, Lilian Roxon wrote that the album "strengthened dreadful suspicion that the Doors were in it just for the money." The LP included "The Unknown Soldier", which was banned from radio play due to controversial lyrics. The group created another self-directed music video for it. "Not to Touch the Earth" was excerpted from The Doors' 30-minute concept piece Celebration of the Lizard, although they were reportedly unable to record a satisfactory version of the entire piece for the LP. This was eventually released on a greatest hits CD compilation.
A month after riotous scenes at the Singer Bowl in New York, the group flew to Britain for its first dates outside of North America. They held a press conference at the ICA Gallery in London and played shows at The Roundhouse Theatre. The results of the trip were broadcast on Granada TV's The Doors Are Open which was later released on video. They played dates in Europe, including a show in Amsterdam without Morrison after he collapsed from a drug binge. Morrison returned to London on September 20 and stayed for a month .
The group played nine more US dates and began to work, in November, on their fourth LP. 1969 started with a sold out show at Madison Square Garden in New York on January 24 and with a successful new single, "Touch Me", (released in December 1968), which hit US #3.

1968: Waiting for the Sun
In January, 1969 Morrison attended a theater production that changed both the course of his and that of the band. At the University of Southern California's Bovard Auditorium The Living Theatre took to the stage for a highly charged show that urged people to cast aside their inhibitions toward being free. The show appealed to Morrison's quest for personal freedom, resulting in a studio jam the next evening, February 25, which became the legendary "Rock Is Dead" session, later released on the 1997 Doors box set, and set the stage for the most controversial episode of Morrison's life and one of rock's most notorious anecdotal incidents.
The 'Miami incident' occurred at the March 1, 1969, Dinner Key Auditorium concert in Miami, Florida. Morrison allegedly exposed himself during the performance. Morrison had been drinking since missing his flight to the show. The 6,900 seat auditorium had been oversold by almost double the hall's capacity, and fans were sweltering without air conditioning. From the moment the band walked on stage Morrison began bellowing, drunkenly, into the microphone. In essence, he was trying to suggest that society, like the Living Theatre people said, should "lighten up." After many minutes of disjointed rambling he shouted "ANYTHING YOU WANT! LET'S DO IT! LET'S DO IT! LET'S DO IT!", and then, allegedly, exposed himself. According to Manzarek, that was the most infamous episode in the band's history. He claims it never took place. "That's my contention," Manzarek says. "It was mass hypnosis. He told them he was going to show it to them, and by God, they believed he did. He was holding his shirt in front of him, pulling it quickly back and forth, back and forth, like a bullfighter, and saying, 'Did you see it? Did you see it? I showed it to you! It came out. I'm not gonna just let it hang out there. Now watch, I'll do it again.' And he'd go whip, whip back and forth with the shirt. It was hot and there were too many people in the place, and people were going crazy, screaming swirling and pushing at this temporary rickety stage. We thought the stage was going to collapse - eventually a side of it did fall over. It was total insanity."
But real or no, the incident outraged local authorities and eventually got Morrison busted for obscenity (he died with the trial outstanding). After that, gigs all over the US were canceled. The timing could not have been worse. "We had our first major tour-a twenty city tour-scheduled at the time, and we were all kind of apprehensive about that," Manzarek remembers. "Twenty cities? Holy cow, we're gonna tour for a month? Until then, we'd never gone out for more longer than four or five days at the most. But every city canceled-nineteen cities, all across the country."
But Miami at least helped prod the rest of the band into finally confronting Morrison face-to-face about his escalating problem. Alcoholism. The incident remains inconclusive. Morrison said: "I wasted a lot of time with the Miami trial. About a year and a half. But I guess it was a valuable experience because before the trial I had a very unrealistic schoolboy attitude about the American judicial system. My eyes have been opened up a bit". Although the Miami incident damaged the band's reputation, Morrison was quietly relieved by its results. He later said: "I think I was just fed up with the image that had been created around me...and so I put an end to it in one glorious evening".
Released from the chain of touring Morrison recorded some of his poetry that month and in April began shooting footage for HWY, an experimental film about a hitchhiker, played by Morrison. The Doors set the poetry session to music for the 1978 album An American Prayer. HWY, which contains virtually no dialog, circulates among collectors and may eventually be officially released.
Although Morrison received the most attention, including getting a far larger image on the cover of the group's debut album (he would get his revenge on the cover of L.A. Woman when he slouched to appear shorter than the rest of the group), he was adamant that all the band members should get recognition. Before one concert when the announcer introduced the group as "Jim Morrison and The Doors", Morrison refused to appear unless he announced the group again as "The Doors". While he never felt close to his real-life family, he was extremely protective of his fellow band-members. Reportedly, he once told Ray Manzarek that he never felt comfortable in a social setting unless Ray or another band member was with him. Many people have concluded that he viewed The Doors as his surrogate family. He repeatedly turned down every solo album opportunity he was offered, and after his death the remaining band members refused to replace him.
In the last two years of his life Morrison curtailed his prodigious intake of psychedelic drugs and began drinking heavily, which soon affected his stage and studio performances. Apparently trying to escape the image of "The Lizard King" that had come to dominate him, Morrison put on weight and grew a thick beard, forcing Elektra to use photos taken earlier in his career for the cover of the Absolutely Live LP, released in 1970. The album features performances recorded on The Doors' 1970 American tour and at the 1969 Aquarius Theatre gig and includes a full-length live performance of "The Celebration of the Lizard".
The group's only public appearance was on a PBS television special recorded late in April and broadcast the following month. The group performed songs from the upcoming Soft Parade album, including a stunning version of the title track.
The group resumed touring at Chicago Auditorium Theater on June 14 and played two dates at Aquarius Theatre in Hollywood on July 21 and July 22, both later released on CD. The shows were typical of a new kind of Doors concert where the emphasis was more on the band and fans having a good time than having a shamanistic experience. The bearded Morrison wore loose fitting clothes and steered the band toward a bluesier direction with songs like "Build Me A Woman", "I Will Never Be Untrue", and "Who Do You Love". Yet his voice had lost none of its power, and the band could still dazzle with performances of "When the Music's Over" and "Celebration of the Lizard".

The 'Miami Incident'
Their fourth album, The Soft Parade (1969), released in July, further distanced the group from their core fan base, containing pop-oriented arrangements complete with horn sections. The lead single "Touch Me" featured saxophonist Curtis Amy).
While the band was trying to maintain their previous momentum, efforts to expand their sound gave the album an experimental feel, causing critics to attack their musical integrity. Morrison's drinking made him increasingly difficult and unreliable, and the recording sessions dragged on for weeks. Studio costs piled up, and The Doors came close to disintegrating.
During the recording of their next album, in November 1969, Morrison found himself in trouble with the law after being abusive to airline staff during a flight to Phoenix, Arizona to see The Rolling Stones in concert. He was acquitted the following April after a steward mistakenly identified Morrison as his traveling companion, American actor Tom Baker.
The group started its year in New York with two well-received nights at The Felt Forum.

1969: The Soft Parade
The Doors staged a return to form with their 1970 LP Morrison Hotel. Featuring a consistent, hard rock sound, the album's opener was "Roadhouse Blues". The record hit US #4.
The 40th Anniversary CD reissue contains outtakes and alternate takes, including a different version of "The Spy" as well as versions of "Roadhouse Blues" with Lonnie Mack on bass guitar and The Lovin' Spoonful's John Sebastian contributing a bluesy harmonica.
The band continued to perform at arenas throughout the summer. Morrison faced trial in Miami in August, but the group made it to the Isle of Wight Festival on August 29. They performed alongside artists such as Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis and Sly & The Family Stone. Two songs from the show were featured in the 1995 documentary Message To Love.
On September 16, Morrison took to the stand, but the jury returned a guilty verdict for profanity and indecent exposure on September 20. Morrison was sentenced to eight months' custody but was allowed to go free pending an appeal.
On December 8, 1970, his 27th birthday, Morrison recorded another poetry session.

1970: Morrison Hotel
During the Doors' last public performance, at the "Warehouse" in New Orleans, Louisiana, on December 12, 1970, Morrison apparently had a breakdown on stage. He slammed the microphone numerous times into the stage floor. Nevertheless, The Doors looked set to regain its crown as a premier act with L.A. Woman in 1971. The album explored their R&B roots, although during rehearsals they had a falling-out with Rothchild. Denouncing the new repertoire as "cocktail music," he quit and handed the production to Botnick. The result is considered a classic Doors album. The singles "Love Her Madly" and "Riders on the Storm" remain mainstays of rock radio programming.

1971: L.A. Woman
In 1971, following the recording of L.A. Woman, Morrison decided to take some time off and moved to Paris with girlfriend, Pamela Courson, in March. He had visited the town the previous summer and seemed content to write and explore the place.
By June, he was again drinking heavily. On June 16, the last known recording of Morrison was made when he befriended two street musicians at a bar and invited them to a studio. The results were released in 1994 on a bootleg CD titled The Lost Paris Tapes.
Morrison died under mysterious circumstances on July 3, 1971. His body was found in the bathtub of his apartment. It was concluded that he died of a heart attack, although it was later revealed that no autopsy had been performed before Morrison's body was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery on July 7.
There are persistent rumours that Morrison faked his death to escape the spotlight or died at a nightclub and that his body had been surreptitiously taken to his apartment. However, in his book Wonderland Avenue, Morrison's former associate Danny Sugerman states that during his last meeting with Courson — which took place shortly before her own death from a heroin overdose — she confessed that she had introduced Morrison to the drug and because he had a fear of needles, she had injected him with the dose that killed him.
The remaining Doors continued for some time, initially considering replacing Morrison with a new singer. It has been reported that Iggy Pop was one of the singers considered as a possible replacement. Instead, Krieger and Manzarek took over on vocals, released two more albums, Other Voices and Full Circle, and went on tour. Both albums sold less than the Morrison era releases, and The Doors stopped performing and recording at the end of 1972. The last album expanded into jazz territory. While neither album has been reissued on CD in the US, they have been released on 2-on-1 CDs in Germany and Russia.

1971–72: Other Voices & Full Circle
The third post-Morrison album, An American Prayer, was released in 1978. It consisted of the band adding a musical track to recently rediscovered spoken-word recordings of Morrison reciting his poetry. The record was a commercial success and it was followed by releases of a mini-album of previously unreleased live material.
In 1979 Francis Ford Coppola, who attended the film school at UCLA with Morrison, released Apocalypse Now with "The End" used prominently in the sound track.

1978: An American Prayer
In 1983, the live album Alive, She Cried was released. It included a cover version of the Them hit "Gloria".

1983: Alive, She Cried
In 1991, director Oliver Stone released his film The Doors, starring Val Kilmer as Morrison and with cameos by Krieger and Densmore. British vocalist Ian Astbury of The Cult was Stone's preferred choice to play Morrison, but Astbury chose not to appear in the film. Kilmer's impersonation and the film itself were praised by critics, despite its inaccuracies. Members of the group criticized Stone's portrayal of Morrison as an out-of-control sociopath. Singer Billy Idol had a cameo in the film and recorded a cover of "L.A. Woman."
The group was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
In 2001, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore and Robby Krieger reunited for the first time in over twenty five years to perform The Doors' hits as part of the VH1 Storytellers series. Singing with the band were guest lead vocalists, including The Cult's Ian Astbury, Creed's Scott Stapp, Stone Temple Pilots' Scott Weiland, Jane's Addiction's Perry Farrell and Days of the New's Travis Meeks. The show was later released on DVD as VH1 Storytellers - The Doors (A Celebration).
In 2002 Manzarek and Krieger reunited and created a new version of The Doors, called "The Doors of the 21st Century." The lineup was fronted by Astbury, with Angelo Barbera from Krieger's band on bass. At their first concert, the group announced that drummer John Densmore would not perform, and it was later reported that he was unable to play because he suffered from tinnitus. Densmore was initially replaced by Stewart Copeland of The Police, but after Copeland broke his arm falling off a bicycle, the arrangement ended in mutual lawsuits, and he was replaced by Ty Dennis, drummer with Krieger's band. Densmore subsequently claimed that he had in fact not been invited to take part in the reunion. In February 2003, he filed an injunction against his former band mates, hoping to prevent them from using the name "The Doors of the 21st Century." His motion was denied in court in May. Manzarek publicly stated that the invitation for Densmore to return to the group still stood. It was also reported that both Morrison's family and that of Pamela Courson had joined Densmore in seeking to prevent Manzarek and Krieger from using The Doors' name. In July 2005, Densmore and the Morrison estate won a permanent injunction, causing the new band to switch to the name "D21C." It now plays under the name Riders on the Storm. They are allowed to play under names such as "former Doors" and "members of The Doors."
Densmore has been steadfast in refusing to license The Doors' music for use in television commercials, including an offer of $15 million by Cadillac to lease the song "Break on Through (to the Other Side)," feeling that that would be in violation of the spirit in which the music was created Template:Citation needeed. Densmore wrote about this subject for The Nation. His notes are as follows:
People lost their virginity to this music, got high for the first time to this music. I've had people say kids died in Vietnam listening to this music, other people say they know someone who didn't commit suicide because of this music…. On stage, when we played these songs, they felt mysterious and magic. That's not for rent.
A flurry of activity was announced in 2006 for the upcoming 40th anniversary of the group's debut album. This saw another box-set of the studio recordings (see recorded output), a coffee table book "The Doors by The Doors" and the beginning of production of an officially sanctioned documentary about the group.
The Doors, along with the Grateful Dead and Joan Baez, received a lifetime achievement award at the 2007 Grammy Awards.
On February 16, 2007 Ian Astbury quit Riders on the Storm, planning to relaunch his old band The Cult.
On February 28, 2007, The Doors received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
On March 14, 2007 Brett Scallions, former lead singer of the band Fuel, was announced as the new lead singer of Riders on the Storm.
On July 24, 2007, The Doors released a live 3-Disc album. Recorded at Boston Arena in April 10, 1970.[1]

The 1990s and beyond
In 2007, Manzarek described the band's sound as "Bauhaus music. It's clean, it's pure. There is a keyboard on one side, a guitar on the other, drums in the middle, a bass line underneath that and the singer up front and you can hear the words. That's one of the reasons why The Doors' sound is still important today. It's perfectly modern. That's what we wanted."

Recorded output
Current Line Up -- "Riders on the Storm"
Former Members -- "Riders on the Storm"
John Densmore is not a member of the current "Doors" band, entitled "Riders on the Storm". Ironically, his latest biography was entitled the same. He has been awarded an injunction against the band using the name, "The Doors." Furthermore, he has refused to participate in any band activities or functions.

Jim Morrison - lead vocals
Robby Krieger - guitar, backing vocals
Ray Manzarek - keyboards, bass, backing vocals
John Densmore - drums, percussion
Robby Krieger - guitar, lead vocals
Ray Manzarek - keyboards, lead vocals
John Densmore - drums, percussion
Brett Scallions - lead vocals (former lead singer singer of Fuel)
Robby Krieger - guitar
Ray Manzarek - keyboards
Ty Dennis - drums, percussion
Phil Chen - bass
Ian Astbury - lead vocals
Angelo Barbera - bass Line-up
Further Information: The Doors discography

Discography
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The phrase "I wanna be wanna be wanna be Jim Morrison" appears in the lyrics to the Radiohead song "Anyone Can Play Guitar".
Jim Morrison (played by Michael A. Nickles) 'appears' in the 1993 movie Wayne's World 2 to tell Wayne to put on a rock concert.
In 2004 the video game Need for Speed Underground 2 contained a remix of "Riders on the Storm" featuring rapper Snoop Dogg, remixed by Fredwreck.
The song "Break on Through (To the Other Side)" is included on the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Gamecube game Tony Hawk's Underground 2, and its PSP counterpart, Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix, along with hats and shirts with The Doors' logo.
In the 2005 EA game Burnout Revenge contained a remix of "Break on Through (To the Other Side)" by acclaimed producer and composer BT.
The song "Peace Frog" is featured on the video game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland, and was played in an episode of My Name Is Earl. It was also featured in the Adam Sandler comedy The Waterboy.
Several songs, including "Peace Frog", "I Looked at You", "When the Music's Over", and "Love Street", have been featured on the series Entourage.
The film Forrest Gump featured several Doors' songs during a montage of Forrest's recovery from his wound he received in Vietnam.
In the film Apocalypse Now, the song "The End" is prominently featured.
Strange Days (1995) the film's title comes from the song (and album) of the same name by The Doors. Metal band Prong performs a cover version of the song on the movie soundtrack, accompanied by original Doors member Ray Manzarek.
In the 1987 movie The Lost Boys, the soundtrack features a cover version of The Doors' song "People Are Strange" by Echo & the Bunnymen, featuring Ray Manzarek on piano. There is also a picture of Jim Morrison in the vampire's lair.
In the 2005 war movie Jarhead, Break On Through was played in a helicopter with one of the marines referring to it as Vietnam music.
In Stephen King's book, The Stand: Complete and Un-cut, one of the main characters, Stuart Redmen, relates a tale of meeting Jim Morrison in a small town gas station after his death. Although whether or not it was actually Jim Morrison is never revealed.
In the skateboard movie 'PJ Ladd's Wonderful Horrible Life' (in the appearance part of Ryan Gallant) the song "Touch Me" is featured.
On Dream Theater's album Octavarium on the song of the same name there is a reference to "Light My Fire" in a stanza that is a play on words of their influences. Furthermore, that section of that song is titled "Full Circle."
On The Naked Trucker and T-Bone show on Comedy Central, "T-Bones" says "The ceremony is about to begin." After hearing Dax Sheppard say "Is everybody in?"
In the song "Bitchin' Camaro" by the band Dead Milkmen, the lead singer parodies "Love Me Two Times".
The Dead Milkmen again parodied the Doors with the lyrics, "You know that it would be untrue. You know that I would be a liar, if I was to say to you, 'I didn't set your dad on fire'," in their song "If You Love Somebody Set Them on Fire" from the album "Metaphysical Graffiti".
The Southern California punk band Guttermouth's Musical Monkey CD contains a track portraying a fictious event in which The B-52's vocalist, Fred Schneider auditions to fill the lead vocal spot in The Doors after Jim Morrison's death.
In 2007, "Roadhouse Blues" was featured in the commercial advertisements for the Fox T.V. series Drive.
In a Simpsons episode, "The End" plays as Homer walks around the city contemplating suicide.
Also in The Simpsons, Krusty the Klown sings "Break On Through".
The song "Irony of Dying on Your Birthday" by the band Senses Fail contains the lines "I wanna die like Jim Morrison/A fucking rock star."
The band The Dresden Dolls refers to "Hello, I Love You" lyrics in the song "The Perfect Fit": "hello, i love you will you tell me your name? hello, i'm good for nothing - will you love me just the same?"
A condensed version of "Touch Me" is used in a commercial for the show The Dead Zone
In season 2 of the Venture Brothers, on the episode "Assassinanny 911" (2-16), the character Hank goes into a trance after accidentally injecting himself with a hypnotic serum. While in the trance he grabs a machete to kill his father, Dr. Venture, with for taking an interest in the character Molotov Cocktease of whom Hank has developed a crush on. This scene occurs toward the end of the episode to a modified version of the song "The End."
"The Crystal Ship" is featured on an episode of the CW show 'Supernatural'.
Russian rock group "Krematorij" used fragments of "She Lives On Love Street" in their song "Gonchiye Psy" ("Hounds"). This song also features words: "Jim Morrison has long been dead, but we believe he is still alive".
"Chestnoye Slovo" ("I Swear"), one of the most known songs of a Russian rock group "Kalinov Most", is dedicated to the memory of Jim Morrison and uses fragments from various songs of "The Doors"
In the song "Dai Jim" ("Jim, Give Me") of Russian rock group "Splean", protagonist is addressing Jim at the beginning of each verse. Though the word "Morrison" is not mentioned, the song includes references to the various aspects of Morrison's life and death and also uses distinctly Doors-sounding keyboard music.
In the Doctor Who mini-episode "Attack of the Graske" the Doctor remarks that the Graske have more doors than Jim Morrison.
On Will & Grace, Grace's husband Leo was in a Doors cover band.
Current ECW Champion Johnny Nitro changed his name to John Morrison due to his resemblance to Jim. The champion now sports Jim Morrison-like hair.
"Roadhouse Blues" is featured in the movie Girl, Interrupted.
Rolling Stone Magazine criticized the The Doors for selling out by allowing a song to be changed to sell Buicks, "Come On Buick Light My Fire" Rolling Stone, although in fact the ad was never aired due to the angry objections of Morrison, who threatened to smash a Buick with a sledgehammer on television if it was. Rolling Stone
Hip Hop group 3rd Bass sampled "Peace Frog" on their song "The Cactus" from their 1989 debut "The Cactus Album".
In the 2003 movie "School of Rock" Jack Black sings a small portion of "Touch Me", while teaching Lawrence how to play keyboard. He sings "Come on, come on Come on, come on Now touch me, babe Can't you see That I am not afraid Lawrence is good at piano He shall be rocking In my show".
In an episode of Spongebob Squarepants, Patrick proclaims that he is the Lizard King.
David Crosby's band CPR (band) recorded a song entitled "Morrison" contrasting Morrison's image, particularly in "that movie", to the real Jim Morrison who Crosby personally knew. Sources