Light My Fire

My Life with The Doors

Ray Manzarek

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Penguin USA
15 October 1999

""The best book yet about The Doors."" --Booklist

The inside story of the Doors, by cofounder and keyboard player Ray Manzarek. Includes 16 pages of photos.

""A refreshingly candid read...a Doors bio worth opening."" --Entertainment Weekly No other band has ever sounded quite like the Doors, and no other frontman has ever transfixed an audience quite the way Jim Morrison did. Ray Manzarek, the band's co-founder and keyboard player, was there from the very start--and until the sad dissolution--of the Doors. In this heartfelt and colorfully detailed memoir, complete with 16 pages of photographs, he brings us an insider's view of the brief, brilliant history...from the beginning to the end. ""An engaging read."" --Washington Post Book World

By: Ray Manzarek
Imprint: Penguin USA
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1999. Corr. 2nd Printing ed.
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 409g
ISBN: 9780425170458
ISBN 10: 0425170454
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 15 October 1999
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ray Manzarek was a cofounder and member of The Doors. After Morrison's death in 1971, he went on to produce the seminal punk rock band X, and to record some solo projects, including the critically acclaimed Golden Scarab with Tony Williams and Larry Carlton. He has directed three platinum-selling videos on The Doors as well. When not in the studio, he tours live with Obie award-winning beat poet Michael McClure.

Reviews for Light My Fire: My Life with The Doors

(The) jewel-like passage (a description of Manzarek and two young buddies who manage to gain entrance to a black juke joint to hear blues singer Muddy Waters) is one of the most moving and exhilarating portraits of white boys succumbing to the power of black music this reviewer has read, worthy of Kerouac's stunning prose on jazz clubs....(An) engaging read. -- The Washington Post Book World The best book yet about The Doors. --Booklist