About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 30. Chapters: Break on Through (To the Other Side), Cars Hiss by My Window, Celebration of the Lizard, Do It (The Doors song), Five to One, Hello, I Love You, Horse Latitudes (The Doors song), Hyacinth House, L.A. Woman (song), Light My Fire, Love Her Madly, Love Me Two Times, Love Street, Moonlight Drive, My Wild Love, Not to Touch the Earth, Peace Frog, People Are Strange, Queen of the Highway, Riders on the Storm, Roadhouse Blues, Rock Is Dead, Runnin' Blue, Soul Kitchen (song), Spanish Caravan, Strange Days (The Doors song), Summer's Almost Gone, Sunset (Bird of Prey), Tell All the People, The Crystal Ship, The End (The Doors song), The Ghost Song, The Unknown Soldier (song), The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat), Touch Me (The Doors song), Tree Trunk, Twentieth Century Fox (The Doors song), We Could Be So Good Together, When the Music's Over, Whiskey, Mystics & Men, Wintertime Love, Wishful Sinful. Excerpt: "Light My Fire" is a song by The Doors which was recorded in August 1966 and released the first week of January 1967 on the Doors' debut album. Released as a single in April, it spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and one week on the Cash Box Top 100, nearly a year after its recording. A year later, it re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968 following the success of Jose Feliciano's version of the song, peaking at number 87. The song was largely written by Robby Krieger, and credited to the entire band. The single was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America in 1967, representing sales of one million units. A live version was released in 1983 on their album Alive, She Cried, the first of several live albums released in subsequent decades to include the song. "Light My Fire" achieved modest success in Australia, where it peaked at number 22 on the ARIA chart. The single originally reached number 49 in the UK in 1967, but experienced belated success in that country in 1991 when a re-issue peaked at number 7. The re-issue occurred on the back of revived interest in the band following Oliver Stone's film biopic The Doors. The song is number 35 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It was included in the Songs of the Century list and was ranked number 7 in VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of All Time list. Jose Feliciano's cover version won a 1969 Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, the same year he won another Grammy for Best New Artist. The song originated as a Robby Krieger unfinished composition, which the other band members then expanded upon, namely the recognizable intro composed by Ray Manzarek. Although the album version was just over seven minutes long, it was widely requested for radio play, so a single version was edited to just under three minutes with nearly all the instrumental break removed for airplay on AM radio. The band appeared on various TV shows, such as American Ban
