Live at The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 (The Doors) Doors' manager Bill Siddons. A 2002 interview recorded with Ray Manzarek, the Doors' keyboardist, who died in 2013 is also included. The Isle of Wight Festival had some 600,000 attendees and the Doors hit the stage at two o'clock in the morning on August 30, 1970. Their set was particularly dark due to lead singer Jim Morrison's not wanting bright spotlights for the film recording on the band. Much of the recording sees the group bathed in a single red spotlight. Jerry Hopkins in his biography of the band, "No One Here Gets Out Alive", commented on the cold wind
The End (The Doors song) fan who had come to hear the group's most famous song. The "Pop Chronicles" documentary reports that critics found the song "Sophoclean and Joycean." "The End" was ranked at number 336 on 2010 "Rolling Stone magazine"s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song's guitar solo was ranked number 93 on "Guitar World"s "100 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time". While the 1967 release of the song is the best-known version, there are other, slightly different versions available. The End (The Doors song) "The End" is a song by the American rock group the Doors. Its lyrics