DOORS JIM MORRISON TO HELP CELEBRATE 40TH ANNIVERSARY

The Doors will celebrate their 40th anniversary in 2007, and the band will not only be honored with a special Grammy, a documentary is on the agenda.

The Doors will celebrate their 40th Anniversary in 2007, and they’ll be honored with a lifetime Grammy Award along with their San Francisco counterparts The Grateful Dead. The Doors had been carrying on without vocalist Jim Morrison, who passed away in the 1971, dying from what many think was the rock-and-roll lifestyle of the time.

In this decade keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger had continued as some form of The Doors, and they also released a special series of vintage live concerts on CD. Manzarek said that aside from the Grammy, 2007 is a big year.

“2007 is the fortieth anniversary of the release of the first Doors album. The album, The Doors was released in January of 1967 and now it’s 2007 and it’s our fortieth anniversary and the fortieth anniversary of “Light My Fire” as the Number One song in America.”

Manzarek also revealed that this year a documentary about The Doors will be released, and it’ll feature…Jim Morrison?!

“Well, there’s going to be a Doors documentary telling the story of The Doors, which will tell the real story of The Doors, unlike the Oliver Stone story of The Doors — which was sort of Oliver Stone in leather pants as opposed to Jim Morrison. But we’re going to try to tell the story of The Doors using the “real” Jim Morrison all the film footage that we have that we shot back in the day. That should be hopefully out sometime in O7, 2007.”

In celebration of the 40th anniversary the band has released a box set titled, Perception. The first pressing of the set is sold out, and a second pressing is slated for early 2007. The band also has their own authorized Biography, The Doors by The Doors.