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"The Soft Parade" is a song composed by the American rock group the Doors, though credited to lead singer Jim Morrison only. [4] It was recorded for their fourth studio album, also titled The Soft Parade (1969), appearing as the closing track. It has been considered as one of the most musically diverse compositions by the band. [6]
The book The Doors, by the remaining Doors, quotes Morrison's close friend Frank Lisciandro as saying that too many people took a remark of Morrison's that he was interested in revolt, disorder, and chaos "to mean that he was an anarchist, a revolutionary, or, worse yet, a nihilist. Hardly anyone noticed that Jim was paraphrasing Rimbaud and ...
The Jim Morrison Triptych is a 1971 oil painting by American artist T. E. Breitenbach (best known for his painting Proverbidioms) in collaboration with Jim Morrison of The Doors. It was initially intended for use on Morrison's An American Prayer album, and completed shortly before Morrison's death.
Fifty years after his death in Paris, we look back at some of Doors frontman Jim Morrison’s iconic musings, lyrics and poetry.
An American Prayer is the ninth and final studio album by the American rock band the Doors.Following the death of Jim Morrison and the band's breakup, the surviving members of the Doors reconvened to set several of Morrison's spoken word recordings to music. [6]
Bruce Springsteen Reveals the Romantic Inspiration Behind Jim Morrison Quote in ‘Road Diary’ Film. Jem Aswad. October 16, 2024 at 12:57 PM.
"Here Comes the Knight" is a pun on the Them song "Here Comes the Night" and quotes from the epitaph on the gravestone of one of Morrison's favorite poets, W. B. Yeats. The Yeats Estate had denied Morrison's request to transform a Yeats poem to music, but the gravestone was considered public property: "Here come horsemen through the pass / They ...
No One Here Gets Out Alive was the first biography about the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band the Doors, Jim Morrison, published in 1980. [1] Its title is taken from a line in the Doors' song "Five to One", [2] and the book is divided into three sections: The Bow is Drawn, The Arrow Flies and The Arrow Falls, for the early years of Morrison's life, his rise to fame with the Doors, and ...