"The Doors: Every Album, Every Song"/Tony Thompson [Episode 38]
b'The Doors remain one of the most original acts in the history of Rock and Roll. However, their actual music is sometimes overshadowed by the cult of Jim Morrison. Those with long memories will recall a point in the 1980s when he went from lead singer of an old band to a signifier of cool known as \\u2018Morrison.\\u2019 His image appeared everywhere on t-shirts, posters, and in the film The Lost Boys, adorning a wall in Keifer Sutherland\\u2019s vampire cave. A biopic in the 1990s attempted something like realism but managed only to dramatize the legend of the \\u2018Lizard King\\u2019. Meanwhile, outside of a few high rotation tracks on \\u2018classic\\u2019 rock stations, most of their work took a back seat to Jim\\u2019s ever-growing status as a cultural icon.
\\u201cThe Doors: Every Album Every Song\\u201d dusts off the vinyl and puts on the headphones for a sustained reappraisal of the band\\u2019s musical career. Hidden gems, deep cuts, overrated top ten hits and an enigmatic series of album closers are all subjected to late night interrogations. Let\\u2019s head to Venice Beach circa 1965, pick up a Fender bass organ on the way, take a face from the ancient gallery and walk on down the hall\\u2026
Tony Thompson is a Canadian writer based in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of \\u201cSummer of Monsters\\u201d, a novel about Mary Shelley\\u2019s early life, and \\u201cShakespeare: The Most Famous Man in London\\u201d. His articles on books, music, and education have appeared in The Age, The Australian, The Daily Review Australia, toppermost.co.uk, and Eureka St. He\\u2019s been a regular guest at the Melbourne Writers Festival and other literary events throughout Australia. He also plays blues harmonica with great enthusiasm.
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