The Doors

The lizard king and his psychedelic bluesmen

The Doors mixed spaced blues and unfettered jazz improvisation with a riveting sexual voice singing the deepest lyrics yet to grace a rock record, all bathed in a lustrous hallucinogenic sheen. The opiated sonic cocktails created by keyboard-player Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore has sometimes been overshadowed by the tales of late singer Jim Morrison’s booze-fuelled snake-waving and ongoing mystery surrounding his 1971 death.