"I think the combination of the poetry (of lead singer Jim Morrison) and the music was so different than anything else at the time, before, or maybe even now," says Krieger, who cowrote "Light My ...

Krieger and Densmore were contemplative about what might have happened if Morrison had not died so young. "Had Jim lived, I think our music would’ve gone more in the direction of 'Riders On The ...

Credit: Paul Ferrera Krieger: Things were happening so quickly, and people realised that you could not manage Jim Morrison. You could try, but he would do what he wanted and that was it.

That would be director Ted Kotcheff, who essentially launched Carolco with First Blood, and Val Kilmer on The Doors, playing the iconic singer Jim Morrison even though Tom Cruise was desperate to ...

The late actor, who died at age 65 on April 1, memorably portrayed the '60s rock band's legendary frontman, Jim Morrison, in director Oliver Stone's 1991 biopic. While Kilmer's performance in the ...

Robby Krieger, guitarist for the legendary '60s band The Doors, had come to meet Val Kilmer, a young actor who had landed the plum if difficult role of Jim Morrison, the band's lead singer ...

When the Doors first met Jim Morrison, not everyone was convinced he had the potential to be a rock ‘n’ roll frontman…that is, until they heard the lyrics to what would become one of the ...

But we need to honor what might be his most transformative performance, as Jim Morrison in The Doors. Jimbo, the most ridiculously pretentious egomaniac in rock-star history, seemed so excessive ...