50 years ago, in Venice Beach, California over a long summer stretching into fall and winter and a new year, Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek take the first steps to put together a new band that would fuse electric blues, classical music, jazz and Spanish flamenco guitar music to poetic lyrics that recalled the writings of the Beat Generation, Arthur Rimbaud and William Blake. Celebrating half a century of The Doors, here’s a great American Masters documentary from PBS.

Here’s The Doors: When You’re Strange…

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