Strange Days (The Doors song) Strange Days (The Doors song) "Strange Days" is a song by The Doors. It was released in 1967 and is the first track on the album of the same name. According to a review at AllMusic by Tom Maginnis, the song seems to find lead singer Jim Morrison "pondering the state of the then emerging hippie youth culture and how they are perceived by mainstream or 'straight' society". A visit to New York City by The Doors inspired Jim Morrison to write "Strange Days" and other songs on the "Strange Days" album, the band's second. In the Doors biography "No
The Guess Who group in late 1965. Burton Cummings (from the Winnipeg group The Deverons) joined the band as keyboardist in early January 1966 and shared lead vocal work with Chad Allan. This line-up lasted only a few months; Allan was now having difficulties singing properly and left in May 1966 to re-enroll in college, leaving Cummings to be the full-time lead singer. By this point, the band's name had become The Guess Who?, though the question mark would finally be dropped in 1968; with Chad Allan gone, the Chad Allan & The Expressions subtitle was also dropped. Burton Cummings' The Deverons bandmate,