REFLECTING ON THEIR HOLLYWOOD BOWL SHOW, JOHN DENSMORE AND ROBBY KRIEGER REVEAL HOW DRUGS ALTERED THE BAND’S SOUND—AND JIM MORRISON’S MIND

All day they tramped around town: the movie star with slicked-back hair and the bespectacled musician who had once been famous. The star was Saturday Night Fever and Grease actor John Travolta—still, in the summer of 1980, a disco princeling hotter than a thousand raging suns. The musician, and Travolta's guide around Los Angeles that long, sweltering afternoon, was Ray Manzarek of The Doors.

JIM MORRISON'S BOUTS WITH SEX, DRUGS AND BOOZE TAKE CENTRE STAGE IN A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE DOORS, NARRATED BY JOHNNY DEPP.

Anyone considering a documentary about The Doors might understandably focus on their charismatic singer Jim Morrison and his wayward, exasperating behaviour. Yet by the end of Tom DiCillo’s When You’re Strange (narrated by Johnny Depp), one wanted to hear more from his three tolerant, patient colleagues—drummer John Densmore, keyboards player Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger. They must have wanted to throttle Morrison, and especially his monstrous alter ego ’Jimbo.’