Keyboard player and record producer Ray Manzarek talks about his experience playing in one of the most influential bands of the 1960s. The Doors disbanded after its lead singer Jim Morrison died in ...

Petaluma's Mystic Theatre calls the show "An Evening of Rock 'n' Roll Tales and Music," but you could also call it a night with a musical odd couple. Ray Manzarek, 71, the keyboardist with the iconic ...

LOS ANGELES — When the Doors were still a fledgling quartet, and the band members were honing their chops playing five sets a night at the London Fog club in Hollywood, it wasn’t rock stardom on ...

The Doors pose for their first album cover, 1967. They are keyboardist Ray Manzarek, left, guitarist Robby Krieger, drummer John Densmore and vocalist Jim Morrison. (Mark and Colleen Hayward / Getty ...

After The Doors’ split, Manzarek recorded a number of solo and collaborative projects, and also formed the short-lived band Nite City. Manzarek and the two other surviving Doors members—guitarist ...

To mark the 50th anniversary of "Light My Fire" hitting No. 1, Fresh Air listens back to an interview with the band's keyboardist, who died in... An Archival Interview With Ray Manzarek, Keyboardist ...

Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim Morrison’s gloomy baritone and helped set the mood for some of rock’s ...

The Doors were one of the most influential bands of the '60s. With the charismatic, mysterious Jim Morrison as their front man, they captivated an entire generation of music fans.The band rocked hard ...

The somewhat checkered history of archival exhumations from the vault of the Doors would no doubt preclude thinking that Live at the Matrix 1967: The Complete Masters (Rhino, 2023) would constitute ...

Ray Manzarek, keyboardist and founding member of the Doors who performed and lived in Napa Valley in recent years, has died at age 74. A musician who had a dramatic impact on rock ‘n’ roll, Manzarek ...