Critic Greil Marcus on The Doors | Booksmith

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More Doors songs can be heard on the radio today, forty years after Jim Morrison’s death, than those of almost any group of their era.

There have been many books on the Doors, but Greil Marcus’s The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years is the first to look past their mystique and the death cult of both Jim Morrison and the era he was made to personify to focus solely on the music.

He shows how their music still shimmers with the dread that in their time hovered over a country convulsed by assassination and war—and, with its own darkness, over a city terrorized by the specter of the Manson murders—a dread that, in different forms, with different faces, is with us still. 

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