YOU'RE NOT A REAL SOMEBODY UNTIL "WEIRD AL" YANKOVIC PARODIES YOU. AND IF THAT'S INDEED THE CASE, THEN THE DOORS ARE DEFINITELY SOMEBODIES - THE MUSICAL SATARIST APES JIM MORRISON AND USES A MELANGE OF DOORS-INSPIRED MELODIES IN HIS LATEST TRACK CRAIGSLIST.

Eric Burdon is one of the most powerful vocalists from the 1960s. Although he didn’t pen ‘The House of The Rising Sun’, his voice wraps around the words like the familiar strains of a writer singing his own work. And that’s exactly what we get on ‘The House of The Rising Sun’, The Animals’ blistering rendition of a blues standard.

Forty years ago, The Doors’ late singer Jim Morrison seduced Hollywood with his wild moves and wilder poetry. On Wednesday, the rock band cemented its legendary status with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Put simply, because of The Doors, I chose music as my life path. I was actually drawn by the instrumentation primarily, as well as by Jim Morrison of course. As musicians I found them to be unique and masterful. Their songs, as well as the atmosphere and intensity they created, had a tremendous impact on me growing up.

Jim Morrison liked to brag about his fast-lane lifestyle. “I’m gonna get my kicks before the whole s – – thouse goes up in flames,” he was fond of saying.

Turns out his body was the s – – thouse. And like an arsonist in leather pants, he burned it to the last cinder, a spectacle that nobody close to him enjoyed watching.

JIM MORRISON'S LEGENDARY BAND STAGED THEIR FINAL SHOW 26 YEARS AGO

Ray Manzarek remembers The Doors’ last concert well. It was the night singer Jim Morrison’s spirit left his body—though it would return to linger for another few months. The date was December 12, 1970; The Doors were playing a large, dank waterfront venue in New Orleans. Hunched over his keyboard, Manzarek says, he felt Morrison ”leave the stage”—but Morrison’s body was standing stock-still in front of the microphone.

It will forever remain a pivotal moment in rock 'n' roll history—︎but the reality is, it might not have happened.

Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger paid tribute to their late bandmate, singer Jim Morrison, by visiting his Paris grave on the 40th anniversary of the Lizard King's death today (July 3).

On 6 June 1970, The Doors played the Vancouver PNE Arena in Vancouver, BC, and as two onstage microphones captured the performance on a reel-to-reel tape recorder, the band churned out a mostly blues-soaked set, during which they were joined by guitar legend Albert King on four songs.

Formed in Los Angeles, 1965, by vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore, The Doors would go on to become one the era’s most iconic rock bands. Undoubtedly, their focal point was Morrison, a mysterious poet, who quickly became one of the heroes of the countercultural movement. Then and now, he has been ascribed a demi-god-like stature—a walking, talking embodiment of the rebellion.