30 July 2024
57 years ago today, on 30 July 1967 THE DOORS started a 3-week run on
top of the US Singles Chart with stone gold master-exploit LIGHT MY FIRE.
As a visual promo the record label used the band’s live
version as played at The Hollywood Bowl on July 5, 1968.
Watch/listen.
Works faster than caffeine
29 July 2022
Today 55 years ago, on 29 July 1967, immortal Californian rockers THE DOORS
conquered the top spot of the American Billboard Singles Chart with LIGHT MY FIRE,
one of their timeless classics.
It was largely written by the band’s guitarist Robby Krieger (76 now)
and with drummer John Densmore (77) the two surviving doors.
Lights on for this bewitching live version.
THE DOORS: Bio – Discography
Top singles from the past
3 June 2022
Band: THE DOORS
Single: LIGHT MY FIRE
Released in the USA 55 years ago today – 3 June 1967.
It reached the top of the charts 2 months later.
The hit featured on their self-titled debut LP.
Come on, baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
THE DOORS: Story
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Artist: ARETHA FRANKLIN
Single: RESPECT
More than 400 million streams on Spotify.
Score: No 1 on the US Singles Charts
55 years ago today – 3 June 1967
The song was written an originally
recorded by Otis Redding in 1965.
Respect when I need it
Got to, got to have it
We got to have it
Got to, got to have it
Give it to me when I want it
Give it to me when I need it
Give it to me with respect, ah
Give it to me when I want it
ARETHA: Story
6 September 2021
Now that her beloved husband Robert Fripp is on tour with his legendary mates
of King Crimson, sexy wife Toyah is on her own for Sunday Lunch. But the burning
love between the two of them is unquenchable.
Toyah lights a fire and Robert starts to sweat, and his 3 hairs stand up.
Hot stuff in the air (again)…
TOYAH: Facebook
Knockouts from the past…
29 July 2019
Today 52 years ago, on 29 July 1967, immortal Californian rockers THE DOORS hit
the top spot of the American Billboard Singles Chart with ‘LIGHT MY FIRE’, one of
their timeless classics, largely written by the band’s guitarist, Robby Krieger.
The single was an edited, shorter version, only 2.52 instead of the 7.06 minute take on their brill self-titled debut LP. The new version came out in April and went slowly to
the highest position of the charts. Over the years it sold more than 2 million copies.
Here’s the long version…
THE DOORS: Facebook – Website
Looking back in time… memorable moments in sonic history!
THE DOORS by THE DOORS – Released 4 January 1967 – 50 years ago…
The legendary L.A. band formed in 1965. With their astonishing self-titled debut album released 4 January 1967 – fifty years ago – charismatic, provocative and much troubled frontman/lyricist Jim Morrison, tremendous keyboardist Ray Manzarek, inspiring guitarist Robby Krieger and quiet drummer John Densmore displayed their mind-boggling organ-fueled, debauched, sultry and sensual rock bravado for the first time with single Light
My Fire making an instant and everlasting impact on a whole generation in the year of
the summer of love…
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Here are some reflections on the album by American music magazine Rolling Stone:
“The Doors arrived in 1967, the same year as Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band; both were psychedelic touchstones and among the first major rock discs that truly stood as albums, rather than collections of songs. But whereas the Beatles took a basically sunny view of humanity, the Doors’ debut offered the dark side of the moon. Their sound was minor-keyed, subterranean, bluesy and spacey, and their subject matter — like that of many of rock’s great albums — was sex, death and getting high. On “End of the Night,” the band invited you to “take a journey to the bright midnight.” The key to the band’s appeal was the tension between singer Jim Morrison’s Dionysian persona and the band’s crisp, melodic playing. Keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger’s extended solos on the album version of “Light My Fire” carried one to the brink of euphoria, while the eleven-minute epic “The End” journeyed to a harrowing psychological state. Scattered among these lengthier tracks are such nuggets as “Soul Kitchen” (“learn to forget”) and Morrison’s acid-drenched takes on the blues (“Back Door Man”) and Kurt Weill (“Alabama Song”). Though great albums followed, The Doors stands as the L.A. foursome’s most successful marriage of rock poetics with classically tempered hard rock — a stoned, immaculate classic.”
To my and millions of other ears this spectacular debut still sounds dangerous, excitatory, bluesy hot, far-out at times, rockin’ & rollin’ and damn cool these days. No fillers, all killers. Not bad for an album released 50 years ago. Here we go, on repeat today, to celebrate…