Ad
related to: light my fire by the doors
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
"Light My Fire" is a song by the American rock band the Doors. Although it was principally written by the band's guitarist, Robby Krieger, [7] songwriting was credited to the entire band. Recognized as one of the earliest examples of psychedelic rock, [8] it was recorded in August 1966 and released in January 1967 on their eponymous debut album.
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.
The Doors made a steady climb up the Billboard 200, ultimately becoming a huge success in the US once the edited single version of "Light My Fire" scaled the charts to become No. 1, with the album peaking at No. 2 on the chart in September 1967 (kept off the top stop by the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band) and going on to achieve ...
The Doors guitarist Robby Krieger (left foreground) wrote the lyrics to the band’s hit “Light My Fire” in 1966 in his parents’ Alma Real Drive home in Pacific Palisades — a property that ...
By March 1967, the Doors had recorded only their debut album (released January 4, 1967) and "Light My Fire" had yet to be released as a single (on April 24, 1967), [2] and they were still relatively unknown outside Southern California.
Although Morrison was the Doors' primary songwriter, Krieger wrote several of the group's hit singles, with his first composition being "Light My Fire". His bluesy "Love Me Two Times" was about a soldier/sailor on his last day with his girlfriend before shipping out, ostensibly to war. [19]
Light My Fire: A Classic Rock Salute to the Doors is a tribute album dedicated to the Doors. It was produced by Yes member Billy Sherwood and it features Ian Gillan, Todd Rundgren, Steve Hillage and many others. [1] It was released on June 24, 2014, by Purple Pyramid Records. [2]
His memoir, Light My Fire: My Life with the Doors, was published in 1998. The Poet in Exile (2001) is a novel exploring the urban legend that Jim Morrison may have faked his death. Manzarek's second novel, Snake Moon, released in April 2006, is a Civil War ghost story.