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Open The Doors for gay Scouts
Asbury Park Press
A boy's ability to tie a proper clove hitch is not dependent upon his sexual orientation. So for many across the country, the vote schedul...

The death Monday of Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek was a sad mark in the ledger of L.A. rock history.

The memoir was "Light My Fire: My Life With The Doors." Manzarek was uniquely positioned to tell the story of The Doors, having begun the band with Jim Morrison after they met in Venice, Calif., in 1965. In his 1998 memoir, Manzarek tells the insider's t...

Ray Manzarek, the keyboard player and co-founder of The Doors, one of the most influential rock groups of the 1960s, has died after a protracted battle with cancer. He was 74.

...Reporting Brian Ives

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...A- A+IN MEMORIAM By Steven Hyden on May 21, 2013 11:45 AM ET
Chelsea Lauren/WireImageDo teenagers still go through a Doors phase? I mean, is that still possible? Jesus, I think it is. It’s not as if The Doors’ music is any more dated now than it was in the early ’90s, back when I went through my Doors phase and a lot of other kids at my middle school when through their Doors phases. Deciding at a certain a...

...le getting stoned, dancing madly and having as much sex as you could possibly have.”

Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison, Robbie Krieger, random kid, and John Densmore. (Elektra Records)

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The Doors were a finely balanced group, one of those special units where every member counts, even if they are chiefly remembered now for the beautiful, brilliant, tragic Jim Morrison, the shamanistic frontman...

When The Doors were still a fledgling quartet, and the band members were honing their chops playing five sets a night at the London Fog club in Hollywood, it wasn't rock stardom on keyboardist Ray Manzarek's mind as...

Ray Manzarek, keyboardist and founding member of The Doors, dies at 74
Washington Post
Mr. Manzarek had played bass parts for The Doors on a piano. He also mastered the combo organ. He played guitar and percussion instruments a...