This interview was originally broadcast in 1998. The mythology surrounding The Doors has centered largely on its lead singer, Jim Morrison, who died under mysterious circumstances in 1971. Morrison is ...

This is FRESH AIR. This weekend it will be 50 years since "Light My Fire" by a rock group called The Doors hit the No. 1 spot on the Billboard singles chart. To celebrate that anniversary, we'll ...

The somewhat checkered history of archival exhumations from the vault of the Doors would no doubt preclude thinking that Live at the Matrix 1967: The Complete Masters (Rhino, 2023) would constitute ...

This could be the last time — in Atlantic City, anyway — that you’ll be able to hear the live version of Ray Manzarek’s signature organ riff on The Doors’ classic “Light My Fire.” “We’re getting old,” ...

Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim Morrison’s gloomy baritone and helped set the mood for some of rock’s ...

To mark the 50th anniversary of "Light My Fire" hitting No. 1, Fresh Air listens back to an interview with the band's keyboardist, who died in... An Archival Interview With Ray Manzarek, Keyboardist ...

This could be the last time — in Atlantic City, anyway — that you’ll be able to hear the live version of Ray Manzarek’s signature organ riff on The Doors’ classic “Light My Fire.” ...