The iconic No. 1 song reemerged one year later as a hit cover.

The song spent three weeks atop the 'Billboard' Hot 100.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Light My Fire,” the second track off the band's eponymous debut album, was left off Rolling Stone’s definitive “The 500 Greatest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saturday August 5, 1967. The hottest hit of the summer, Light My Fire, begins its second week at No.1 on the US Billboard chart. A ...

The best bands are the sum of their parts, with different members carrying different kinds of weight throughout their time together. In the late 1960s, The Doors frontman Jim Morrison believed he was ...

The year is 1967, and The Doors are establishing themselves in the music world. The Los Angeles-based group weren't yet the mighty countercultural influence they would become, but they were about to ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google The Los Angeles home where The Doors guitarist Robby Krieger penned the band’s hit psychedelic rock single “Light My ...

At a time when many record labels were still in their infancy, a song turning into a massive success for both musicians and the labels they were signed to was a more common phenomenon. Such was the ...

In 1967, Robby Krieger, the guitarist for L.A. band the Doors, wrote the hit single “Light My Fire” in the living room of his parents’ Pacific Palisades home. This week, nearly six decades later, the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The musical legends are benefiting from renewed interest in their ...

In the endlessly debated canon of Greatest Classic Rock Songs, you can pretty much bet your vinyl collection on genre stalwarts like The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter,” Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb ...