Ray manzarek

Ray Manzarek, the inventive keyboardist behind the sound and songs of The Doors, died on Monday at a clinic in Germany after a lengthy battle with bile duct cancer, the band announced today. He was 74.

Ray Manzarek

Ray Manzarek, a founding member of The Doors and one of the most influential keyboard players in the history of rock, has died in Germany. He was 74. He had bile duct cancer, his manager, Tom

“I’ll open doors to strange and exotic countries.” That’s the first line in Ray Manzarek’s 1965 student film Induction, and one of several moments from his UCLA movies that retrospectively became omens and portents of Ray’s near future—his film school classmate Jim Morrison turns up in Induction, too. Though Induction and 1964’s Evergreen predate the Doors, both of Manzarek’s extant student films contain such seemingly premonitory details. (In Evergreen, it’s footage of the Whisky a Go Go…

@jimmorrison shared a photo on Instagram: ““Morrison is a poet, and a poet wants nothing more than for his words to be spoken out to the public in person and in a live setting.” -Ray…” • Dec 18, 2020 at 6:22pm UTC

23.4k Likes, 292 Comments - The Doors (@thedoors) on Instagram: “Happy Birthday to The Doors founding member and keyboardist, Ray Manzarek! With an unmistakable…”