Some of The Monkees‘ songs were inspired by other artists. For example, The Doos’ Jim Morrison and another 1960s star inspired a track from a No. 1 Monkees album. Notably, one of The Monkees’ ...

1. There will never be another like you, there will never be another who can do the things you do. A fragment of the song Shaman blue's that invites you to remember how special you are. With this ...

Through his work with The Doors, Jim Morrison became a classic rock legend. The Monkees’ regular songwriters had strong reaction to The Door’s songs. Subsequently, they drew influence from Morrison to ...

Jim Morrison would’ve turned 80 years old on December 8, 2023, a feat that may seem like an impossibility from our modern perspective when he’s been a dead legend for far longer than he was a living ...

An artist’s lowest moments can sometimes produce their highest peaks of creativity, and that was certainly the case for Jim Morrison, who wrote what would become a signature Doors song while in a ...

Anne Morrison Chewning is a guardian of some significant rock 'n' roll history, held in a highly-secure, climate-controlled vault in Los Angeles: The Jim Morrison Archive. Her brother, Jim Morrison, ...

On this day in 1970, the Doors unknowingly played their last concert with legendary frontman, the Lizard King himself, Jim Morrison. The fabled, once considered prophetic, rock god didn’t go out with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. “It wasn't what they said it was,” Krieger, 75, says today, refuting ...

It was the middle of the 60s when Jim Morrison, a young film student, lover of philosophy and poetry, started together with his friends The Doors, one of the most representative bands of the entire ...