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Health's Jake Duzsik on the Doors' Ray Manzarek
The death Monday of Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek was a sad mark in the ledger of L.A. rock history. But although the Doors are a classic-rock radio staple, the band's vision of L.A. -- seductive and evil, gaudy and threatening -- has stayed powerful...
Tags: Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, The Doors (music group), Entertainment Events, Music, Entertainment
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Ray Manzarek remembered the Doors in his books
When Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek died Monday, he left behind a musical legacy that included 15 singles that made Billboard's hot 100 list, including the songs "Light My Fire," "Waiting for the Sun," "Touch Me," "Riders on the Storm," and "People Are...
Tags: The Doors (music group), Music Industry, Heroin, Poetry, Music
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Quotations of the day
"I got a phone call from her screaming, 'Help! Help! I can't breathe. My house is on top of me!'" — Tiffany Thronesberry, who heard from her mother, Barbara Jarrell, shortly after a tornado roared through Oklahoma City's suburbs. ___ "It's a tough...Tags: White House, George W. Bush
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Ray Manzarek dies at 74; keyboardist for the Doors
When the Doors were still a fledgling quartet, and the band members were honing their chops playing five sets a night at the London Fog club in Hollywood, it wasn't rock stardom on keyboardist Ray Manzarek's mind as he and his three band mates laid down...
Tags: Music Industry, The Doors (music group), Music, Entertainment
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The Doors Keyboardist Ray Manzarek Dies at 74
VarietyRay Manzarek, best known for his signature organ sound as keyboardist and co-founder of the Doors with Jim Morrison, died at age 74 today at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, after a sustained battle with bile duct cancer. Manzarek formed the Doors...Tags: Music Industry, The Doors (music group), Germany, Music, Entertainment
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Ray Manzarek dies at 74; the Doors' keyboardist
Keyboardist Ray Manzarek, the founding member of the Doors whose piercing electric organ sound defined their career-establishing hit “Light My Fire” and most of the L.A. group’s cornerstone songs, died Monday in Germany after a lengthy...
Tags: The Doors (music group), Music Industry, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Obituaries, Music
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Ray Manzarek, founding member of The Doors dies at 74
Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist and founding member of The Doors who had a dramatic impact on rock 'n' roll, has died. He was 74. Publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says Manzarek died Monday at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his...Tags: The Doors (music group), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Music, Entertainment
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Doors drummer John Densmore to visit 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon'
Jimmy Fallon, who has made high art out of his impersonation of Neil Young, gets a shot at getting inside the mind -- and tight leather pants -- of another Rock and Roll Hall of Famemember on his show tonight when he fills in for the Doors’ lead...
Tags: Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (tv program), Disc Jockeys, The Doors (music group), Music, Jimmy Fallon
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Doors drummer protects Jim Morrison legacy in book
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Doors drummer John Densmore keeps the spirit of Jim Morrison alive in his new book, "The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial." The 68-year drummer is no stranger to chronicling his former band. He...
Tags: Politics, The Doors (music group), Charlie Crist, Substance Abuse, Lobbying
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Portland Press Herald, Maine, Rod Harmon column
Portland Press Herald, MaineI don't know about you, but last weekend's Record Store Day was like having a second Christmas in my house. (Or would that be an early Christmas? Whatevs.) I managed to snag all the limited-edition releases on my list for the first time in my RSD-...Tags: The Doors (music group), Music, Book, Entertainment
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Alice Cooper, Doors guitarist to play at rock academy in Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A pair of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members will be in South Dakota Thursday night for a concert benefiting a rock academy for Sioux Falls Boys & Girls Clubs members. Alice Cooper will be joined on stage by Robby...Tags: KISS (music group), The Doors (music group), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Alice Cooper, Music
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REVIEW: Scott Weiland breaks expectations, bad and good, at Sands Event Center
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGExpectation would say Scott Weiland is at his best as frontman for his on-again, off-again 1990s rock band Stone Temple Pilots. So it’s no surprise, even though he recently was fired from the band, that when he did a solo......
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