The Doors was formed in Los Angeles in 1965 by UCLA film students Ray Manzarek, keyboards, and Jim Morrison, vocals; with drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger. The band specialized in heavy music, namely in rock. Though the band didn’t have a bass player, but that was compensated by electric organ and Morrison's deep strong voice.
The Doors signed a contract with Elektra Records in 1966, and pretty soon the band issued ots debut album called The Doors, which was made of very good songs, and "Light My Fire," for example, was considered to be a real hit. The album itself was considered to be one of the best ones. Their music was melodic, pleasant to ear, and professional.
The Doors was extremely successful and demanded by the public, the band was considered to be one of the most sanding ones of its time. It was appreciated both by the critics and mass media. But still the Doors was more demanded during the early period of their career, and even if some of their following albums were a success, people preferred the first ones.
The Doors issued L.A. Woman in 1971, and before that one of the members of the band, Morrison, was arrested for his “bad behavior” during a concert in Miami, and it couldn’t help influencing the band’s career. But in spite of that the band succeeded in issuing a lot of successful albums and songs during 1971.
The Doors lost forever their one of their members, Morrison, when he died in Paris because of drugs. The band did their best to go on with their career without their best member, but all in vein, the band was on the verge of breaking for during some time, and in at last it disbanded as without Morrison the band wasn’t so successful.
