The Doors are as respect-worthy as MC5

A preening but provocative frontman; a prodigious work rate; swaggeringly baroque music: a new documentary has reminded me why I can't fall out of love with the DoorsThere's some footage of Jim Morrison that makes me chuckle every time I even think of it. In it, Mr Mojo Risin' himself is waxing lyrical, clearly under the impression that words of pure poetry and enlightenment are dripping from his Dionysian tongue. To the rest of us, however, he is just another rock star completely off his gourd ...

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