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
Tony Middleton (singer) Tony Middleton (singer) Tony Middleton (born June 26, 1934 in Richmond, Virginia) is a singer. He became the lead singer of the 5 Willows or the Willows) in 1950s. He moved to New York City with his mother in the mid-1950s. Although he participated in various sports through the years (including amateur boxing in his late 20s), he was always involved in music as well. In 1952 he became the lead singer of the 5 Willows (who would later be billed simply as The Willows); in 1956 they had a hit record, "Church Bells May Ring". He left the group