Saturday August 5, 1967. The hottest hit of the summer, Light My Fire, begins its second week at No.1 on the US Billboard chart. A colossal moment not just for The Doors – the tripped-out, LA-noir ...

Though Jim Morrison's short life seems to cast a vast shadow over the legacy of The Doors, the band were at their best when ...

Light My Fire” wasn’t the Doors’ first single — that honor went to “Break on Through (To the Other Side).” It was actually ...

Five decades ago, the song topped the Billboard Top 100. — -- Fifty years ago Saturday, The Doors' "Light My Fire" burned its way to the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Mainly written by guitarist ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. They've been a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They came together 60 years ago in Venice, California: Jim Morrison, a poet in leather pants, backed by Ray Manzarek on keys, Robby Krieger on guitar, and John Densmore on drums. The Doors soon got ...

The Doors pose for their first album cover, 1967. They are keyboardist Ray Manzarek, left, guitarist Robby Krieger, drummer John Densmore and vocalist Jim Morrison. (Mark and Colleen Hayward / Getty ...

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