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• The Doors Are Open | DVD | (31/12/2099) from £16.20   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  There are things known and there are things unknown, and inbetween are The Doors...Over forty years after his death, Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, remains a legend. Hailed by fans as prophet, priest, poet and magician, his charisma and mystique propelled The Doors to immediate cult status, their gigs selling out all over the world. Some of the most strident and powerful music ever created came out of this era, and at the forefront of this generation-defining musical force were Morrison and The Doors.Filmed in 1968, The Doors Are Open is a product very much of its time rebellious, compelling and radically constructed, the show counterpoints scenes of the group's stage concert with newsreel footage of student protests, political statements and footage of the war in South East Asia. It is a fitting tribute to a band that made an indelible mark on the music scene of its day.Also included in this release is The Doors In Europe mixing live concert footage from The Doors Are Open along with other performances from their European tour of 1968, this show is narrated by Paul Kantner and Grace Slick who, as members of Jefferson Airplane, shared the line-up on this legendary tour.

• The Doors - 30 Years Commemorative Edition | DVD | (02/07/2001) from £6.12   |  Saving you £13.87 (226.63%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Three classic Doors titles on one packed DVD! Dance On Fire: An all music collection of live and televised performances promotional clips and behind the scenes footage. Featuring 'LA Woman' 'Riders On The Storm' and 'Light My Fire'. (65 minutes in length.) Live At The Hollywood Bowl: The legendary 1968 concert. The only complete live concert of the Doors ever filmed. (50 minutes in length.) The Soft Parade: This collection of footage drawn from the Doors' private archives feature

• The Doors Live At The Hollywood Bowl | DVD | (04/09/2000) from £10.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (85.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Watching The Doors Live at the Hollywood Bowl is a sobering experience, for the viewer must confront the painful truth that popular music, to judge by its increasingly infantile and banal state, will never see their like again. Either that, or admit The Doors were an irrelevant footnote in the history of pop--an idle thought that a few minutes of this extraordinary concert will dispel. Fortunately for posterity, this July 5, 1968 performance was captured by four cameras and recorded in 16-track audio, and has now been digitally remixed for DVD. The result is a crisp picture and generally excellent stereo sound that is far better than most archive footage of this band. On stage Jim Morrison has the aura of an intense performance artist, whose dark, smoky voice forms only a part of his complex persona; guitarist Robby Krieger, keyboard player Ray Manzarek and drummer John Densmore complement Morrison's free-associative outpourings with improvisational jazz-inspired interjections. They make music like no other band before or since: who else could segue effortlessly from Kurt Weill's "Alabama Song" to Willie Dixon's "Back Door Man"? And just when they're in danger of becoming too pretentious, Morrison bursts any lurking self-importance with a wry smile, a jokey aside or even a belch. But the seriousness remains, at least implicitly, throughout as Morrison's edgy lyrics--from "When the Music's Over" to "The Unknown Soldier" and "The End"--constantly hint at disturbing social undercurrents outside the concert arena. Is it fanciful to imagine that in the minds of his audience the ghosts of the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement are hovering just out of view? Such thoughts are what make The Doors so unique: their music invites questions, positively dares the audience to ask them; that's why they remain so endlessly fascinating well over three decades later. And that's why this concert performance will find a home with any and every fan of the band. "The time to hesitate is through". --Mark Walker

• The Doors - Live In Europe | DVD | (01/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Filmed during their European Tour in 1968 The Doors swept through the cities of London Stockholm Frankfurt and Amsterdam. This collection of rare live performances is introduced and narrated by Paul Kantner and Grace Slick who as members of Jefferson Airplane shared the bill on this historic tour. An archive classic.

• The Doors Dance on Fire | DVD | (22/05/2017) from £6.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An All - Live Video Collection Of Live & Televised Performances, Promotional Clips & Rare Behind-The-Scenes Footage. Break On Through The Original Elektra Records Promo Clip People Are Strange Performances From The Ed Sullivan Show And Murray The K In New York Light My Fire Performance From The Ed Sullivan Show Wild Child Filmed At The Elektra Recording Session L.A. Woman A New Film Directed By Ray Manzarek The Unknown Soldier The Original Elektra Promo Clip, Banned Since 1968 Roadhouse Blues Filmed During The 1968 American Tour Texas Radio And The Big Beat/ Love Me Two Times Live Performance From Danish Television Touch Me Performance From The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour Horse Latitudes/Moonlight Drive Performance From The Jonathan Winters Show The End Live Performance From The 1968 Hollywood Bowl Concert Crystal Ship Performance From American Bandstand Adagio Adagio Composed By Tommasso Albiononi / Arranged By Paul Harris And The Doors Riders On The Storm.

• The Doors The Soft Parade | DVD | (22/05/2017) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This Historic Music Video Features As Its Centrepiece The Doors' Last Televised Appearance, Aired On Pbs In 1969 In The Wake If The Notorious Miami Concert Which Resulted Not Only In Jim Morrison'S Arrest, But The Cancellation Of The Entire Tour. Public Television Provided The Only Alternative For The Doors To Present Themselves In An Uncensored Environment, And The Result Is An Arresting Display Of A Mature Band At The Peak Of Its Musical Powers. Additional Material Is Drawn From The Doors' Private Archives, Including Footage From The Riotous 1968 Tour Of America And The Never-Before-Seen Interviews. On And Offstage, Spirits Up And Guards Down, Here Is A True And Fascination Portrait Of Jim Morrison And The Doors As Artists, Musicians, Performers And People.

• The Doors Live at the Hollywood Bowl | DVD | (22/05/2017) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Watching The Doors Live at the Hollywood Bowl is a sobering experience, for the viewer must confront the painful truth that popular music, to judge by its increasingly infantile and banal state, will never see their like again. Either that, or admit The Doors were an irrelevant footnote in the history of pop--an idle thought that a few minutes of this extraordinary concert will dispel. Fortunately for posterity, this July 5, 1968 performance was captured by four cameras and recorded in 16-track audio, and has now been digitally remixed for DVD. The result is a crisp picture and generally excellent stereo sound that is far better than most archive footage of this band. On stage Jim Morrison has the aura of an intense performance artist, whose dark, smoky voice forms only a part of his complex persona; guitarist Robby Krieger, keyboard player Ray Manzarek and drummer John Densmore complement Morrison's free-associative outpourings with improvisational jazz-inspired interjections. They make music like no other band before or since: who else could segue effortlessly from Kurt Weill's "Alabama Song" to Willie Dixon's "Back Door Man"? And just when they're in danger of becoming too pretentious, Morrison bursts any lurking self-importance with a wry smile, a jokey aside or even a belch. But the seriousness remains, at least implicitly, throughout as Morrison's edgy lyrics--from "When the Music's Over" to "The Unknown Soldier" and "The End"--constantly hint at disturbing social undercurrents outside the concert arena. Is it fanciful to imagine that in the minds of his audience the ghosts of the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement are hovering just out of view? Such thoughts are what make The Doors so unique: their music invites questions, positively dares the audience to ask them; that's why they remain so endlessly fascinating well over three decades later. And that's why this concert performance will find a home with any and every fan of the band. "The time to hesitate is through". --Mark Walker

• Ray Manzarek - Love Her Madly | DVD | (01/12/2008) from £11.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (-9.00%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Lover Her Madly is a tale a tale of sexual obsession madness and murder set in the campus community of the exclusive California College of the Arts. A whodunit in the finest noir tradition. Yet Directed by and mated to a soundtrack scored by Doors' keyboard wizard Ray Manzarek Love Her Madly christens a new millennial genre: hip-hop Hitchcock.

• The Doors - Live In Europe 1968 | DVD | (06/12/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  For Doors completists only, this shapeless gathering of rare film clips of the band performing in Europe is hampered by the same old, frustrating problems with attempting to convey, through lousy camera work, the band's power as a live act. The packaging tells us the Doors swept through London, Stockholm, Frankfurt and Amsterdam during a 1968 tour documented here, but there is no way to appreciate that save for a random clip or two of Jim Morrison milling about outside concert venues, talking with fans. Otherwise, we see the same sort of obfuscating on-stage close-ups of Morrison you can see in any footage of a Doors gig, stumbling around, crooning and reciting poetry to minimalist accompaniment by Ray Manzarek on keyboards, John Densmore on drums and Robby Krieger on guitar. Unless one can see, in the mind's eye, what the band is up to from the point of view of a kid in the 30th row, there is no way to really get the hypnotic, Dionysian effect for which the Doors were justifiably famous. Thus, for anyone who can imagine such a thing, or take it on faith, there is good reason to enjoy performances of "Spanish Caravan", "Five to One" and two versions of "Light My Fire". There is even a relic of pre-MTV, pop promotion: a silly-looking performance of "Hello, I Love You" shot before a baffled crowd on a London street. --Tom KeoghSong list: 1. Light My Fire 2. Love Me Two Times 3. Back Door Man 4. Spanish Caravan 5. Hello, I Love You 6. When the Music's Over 7. Unknown Soldier 8. Light My Fire (II) 9. Five to One 10. Alabama Song