The Doors

Ray Mansarek and Jim Morrison are responsible for putting the Doors together. After going through many changes, it was finalised that John Densmore would play drums and Robby Krieger would play guitar. Ray playing the keyboard gave the band a very original sound. Their first gigs were at the club Whiskey-a-Go-Go. Jim was shy for the first shows and would only face the band members while singing.

Jim's father was a high-ranking officer in the army. He was in Vietnam in the very beginning of the war. When some of the band members had been drafted to go, they all claimed to be homosexuals and did not got to war. The song Unknown Soldier is a Vietnam protest song.

The Doors were known to be "poster-boys" for the "Psychedelic Movement" and were very influential in bringing drugs into mainstream culture. They also had a large impact on the sexual revolution. Jim was one of the first "hippy" sex symbols.

Jim was known to be an alcoholic. A bartender, who had been working one night at a bar where Jim had