{"id":37976,"date":"2013-05-21T15:49:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T12:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=37976"},"modified":"2013-05-21T15:51:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T12:51:30","slug":"ray-manzarek-deadlegendary-the-doors-keyboardist-manzarek-dies-age-74-37976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/ray-manzarek-deadlegendary-the-doors-keyboardist-manzarek-dies-age-74-37976\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Manzarek Dead:Legendary The Doors keyboardist Manzarek Dies age 74"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ray Manzarek, a founding member of 1960s Jim Morrison front man rock group The Doors, has died at the age of 74.<\/h1>\n

The keyboard player Ray Manzarek \u00a0died in Rosenheim, Germany, with his family at his bedside following a battle with\u00a0bile duct cancer.<\/p>\n

He and singer Jim Morrison formed The Doors in 1965 after a chance meeting at Venice Beach in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

The Doors’ original line-up, which also included drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robbie Krieger, was only together for a few years and made just six studio albums.<\/p>\n

But the band retained a large and obsessive following long after Morrison’s death, aged 27, in 1971 of a suspected heart attack.<\/p>\n

They sold more than 100 million records, with songs such as Light My Fire and Riders On the Storm still considered “classic” rock favourites.<\/p>\n

For admirers, the band symbolised the darker side of the Los Angeles lifestyle, what happened to the city after the sun went down and the Beach Boys fans headed home.<\/p>\n

“The Doors’ vibe has more to do with Charles Bukowski than it does with Farrah Fawcett,” said John Doe of punk band X, a friend of Manzarek’s for more than 30 years, referring to the poet and Charlie’s Angels’ star respectively.<\/p>\n

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“It has more to do with Raymond Chandler and Nathaniel West, and Sunset Boulevard the movie, than it does with Beach Blanket Bingo, right? … It’s a real dark place out in LA.”<\/p>\n

Next to Morrison, Manzarek was the most distinctive-looking band member, his glasses and wavy blond hair providing the clean living look as a contrast to Morrison’s Dionysian glamour – his sensuous mouth and long, dark hair.<\/p>\n

Musically, Manzarek’s spidery organ on Light My Fire is one of the most instantly recognisable sounds in rock history.<\/p>\n

Manzarek and Krieger continued to perform from 2002 with Ian Astbury replacing Morrison on vocals and Stewart Copeland, drummer in The Police, replacing Densmore on drums.<\/p>\n

Densmore had refused to take part and joined up with Morrison’s family to bring a lawsuit against Manzarek and Krieger’s use of The Doors name.<\/p>\n

“I was deeply saddened to hear about the passing of my friend and bandmate Ray Manzarek today,” guitarist Krieger said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“I’m just glad to have been able to have played Doors songs with him for the last decade. Ray was a huge part of my life and I will always miss him.”<\/p>\n

Manzarek is survived by his wife, Dorothy, son and three grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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