Sixty years after The Doors took audiences on a destination-unknown thrill ride, Robby Krieger and John Densmore tell the band's wild story ...

Robby Krieger (right) jams away as The Doors singer Jim Morrison looks on in this vintage photo from the band's 1960s hey day.

As part of NPR's 50th anniversary, we're looking back at other cultural milestones of 1971. That year The Doors released their final album L.A. Woman — and the band's lead singer Jim Morrison died.

I like to think Jim Morrison is still out there, only 81, living undercover back in the U.S.A., still watching this movie in his La-Z-Boy. No doubt he approves.

Jim Morrison’s star burned brightly but faded fast. In the space of just three-and-a-half years, his band The Doors released six studio albums plus the searing in-concert recording Absolutely ...

A new three-part documentary about late The Doors star Jim Morrison delves into an eyebrow-raising fan theory that the singer faked his own death. Before The End, put together by Doors superfan ...

But tragedy struck in 1971 when lead singer Jim Morrison was found dead in a bathtub in Paris at the age of 27. The cause of death was listed as heart failure, and Bill Siddons, The Doors' manager ...

American rock band The Doors perform at the Ondine Club in New York City, November 1966. From left to right, keyboard player Ray Manzarek, singer Jim Morrison and guitarist Robby Krieger.

Syracuse, NY (WRGB) — Jim Morrison died nearly 54 years ago at the age of 27 and his body was laid to rest in Paris, France -- or so they say. One lifelong fan of Morrison and The Doors believes ...

A long-lost memorial bust of The Doors’ legendary frontman Jim Morrison has been recovered 37 years after it was stolen, French police said.. Crafted in 1981 by Croatian artist Mladen Mikulin to ...

A long-lost memorial bust of The Doors’ legendary frontman Jim Morrison has been recovered 37 years after it was stolen, French police said.. Crafted in 1981 by Croatian artist Mladen Mikulin to ...

The Doors' surviving original members reflect on Jim Morrison's 'heartbreaking' death in 1971 at the age of 27.