A highly influential and controversial group, The Doors were major rock and theatrical innovators in the late 1960s. This Los Angeles based quartet formed in 1965 was fronted by Jim Morrison, a film school dropout who more interested in being a shaman or a poet than a rock star but somehow succeeded in being the iconic rock star of a generation with his unlikely rise and tragic fall. Musically, the band fused folk, jazz, blues, and various world genres with an expert pop/rock sensibility which brought them immediate popularity and an incredible legacy.
Studio Album Reviews
Over a brief period of barely four years, The Doors released a half dozen diverse and top notch studio albums which document their incredible evolution as a band from psychedelic pop to jazz-fused to jam to pure rock and blues:
The Doors and Strange Days (1967)
Waiting for the Sun (1968)
The Soft Parade (1969)
Morrison Hotel (1970)
L.A. Woman (1971)
Outside Resources
Classic Rock Review suggests these fine links for more information on The Doors:
The Doors Wikipedia page
The Doors on All Music Guide
The Doors Experience – Group Tribute Page
Team Rock‘s Top 20 Doors Songs
The Doors Official
The Doors official website
Buy The Doors music