The Doors were successful. It was Jim Morrison as the centre and the figure and the spokesman, the figurehead, but we were all into the same thing. That's why we were a band.

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In 2006 he collaborated with composer/trumpeter Bal. " Manzarek liked the songs and co-founded the Doors with Morrison at that moment.

known as Ray Manzarek (born February 12 1939) is an American musician singer producer film director writer and co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors from 1965 to 1973 Nite City from 1977–1978 and Manzarek-Krieger since 2001. Raymond Daniel Manczarek Jr.