Light My Fire: My Life with The Doors

The Doors were arguably the most important rock-and-roll band of the 1960s, unquestionably a catalyst for American music as we know it.Their music was the product of late-sixties southern California, with its idyllic facades.The Doors looked beyond these facades and wrote music about what they found, making them the ultimate symbol for rebellion and alienation: the key to the 1960s, counter-culture.Keyboardist Ray Manzarek co-founded the Doors with legendary guitarist Jim Morrison in 1965.Together with Robby Krieger and John Densmore they created a musical and cultural legend.Their original mix of jazz, classical, Californian surf, Flamenco guitar and Chicago blues made an irreversible impact on the music of the day, and the course of pop music ever since.Their worldwide popularity continues today with album sales of nearly two million a year.Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison were both UCLA Film School graduates, best friends and rarely apart until Morrison moved to Paris shortly before hi