Believe it or not, kidz, this song was once considered a paean to weed because the first verse ends with the line, “Girl we couldn’t get much higher.”
After “Light My Fire” reached No. 1 in September 1967, Ed Sullivan booked the band — but wanted them to alter the offending line. Jim Morrison didn’t, and after the show a producer told them, “Mr. Sullivan wanted you for six more shows, but you’ll never work The Ed Sullivan Show again.” Morrison purportedly replied, “Hey, man. We just did the Sullivan show.”
This clip shows their entire appearance, starting with “People Are Strange.”
This clip, if it plays in the USA, is just “Light My Fire.”
If you look at Paris on Google’s map feature, one of the large-type attractions, right up there with the Louvre and the Pantheon, is the Tombe de Jim Morrison in Père Lachaise cemetery. It’s a rather nondescript tombstone compared to, say, Oscar Wilde’s, but that’s by necessity — the fan-sculpted bust that once stood at the site was defaced and eventually stolen, so Morrison’s parents installed a polished stone marker that deters graffiti. It’s Greek epithere today because it’s easy to clean off the graffiti.
I don’t know if Morrison’s cult of personality is as strong as it used to be back in the ’80s and ’90s — appreciation of the Doors nowadays tends to give more credit to Ray Manzarek and Robby Kreiger than they got when they were in Morrison’s shadow — but there are usually plenty of flowers on his grave.