The Doors: Last News

The Libertines have revealed that they’ve bought the bathtub that Jim Morrison died in for their Margate hotel, The Albion Rooms.The band released their fourth album ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ last Friday (April 5), marking their first full-length record in almost a decade. It is currently on course to hit Number One in the UK.During a new interview with Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music 1, Pete Doherty and Carl Barât talked about achieving their “dream” of opening their own Libertines hotel and studio space in 2020.“We’ve also got the bathtub that Jim Morrison died in, which we’re going to be putting in one of the rooms,” Doherty explained at one point in the chat.The frontman of The Doors passed away in Paris in 1971 aged 27.

The Doors’ 1970 album ‘Morrison Hotel’ has been badly damaged by a fire.Per Variety, the blaze broke out on Thursday (December 26), with the building at the intersection of Pico Boulevard and Hope Street in downtown Los Angeles requiring 17 fire companies to get the fire under control after an hour and a half.The building has been used as a training site for Los Angeles Fire Department in recent years and had been scheduled to be converted into affordable housing. But in the late 1960s, it served as the Morrison Hotel.The photograph used for the cover art was snapped by rock photographer Henry Diltz in December 1969, with the album being released the following February.

Set The Night On Fire: Living, Dying, And Playing Guitar With The Doors, which is set to shed light on the band’s history.The Doors‘ guitarist’s memoir is released on October 12 via Little, Brown and Company, and promises to reveal new aspects about the band’s mythological career.A description of the 300+ page book [via Consequence Of Sound] says readers can expect to learn about “never-before-told stories from The Doors’ vital years” as well as new perspectives on the band’s iconic moments.“Through a series of vignettes, Krieger takes readers back to where it all happened: the pawnshop where he bought his first guitar; the jail cell he was tossed into after a teenage drug bust; his parents’ living room, where his first songwriting sessions

The Doors‘ Jim Morrison, and fans have been paying tribute to the late star, both in person and online.Morrison died in July 1971 aged 27. He was found in the bathtub of a Paris apartment.