That only participation of the Doors in the ED Sullivan Show

On the evening of September 10, 1967, Ray Manzarekkeyboardist of Doorsshe was sitting at home with her girlfriend Dorothy fujikawawatching the most popular variety television program in America, The and Sullivan Show. At the end of the broadcast, while Manzarek was about to change the channel, the conductor and Sullivan announced: “Next week we will have … a rock group of California, the doors, who will play their success number one ‘light my fire'”. As Manzarek disappeared later, “We looked at each other and we said: ‘I think we will be at the ED Sullivan Show next week.”

In an interview with YouTuber
Rick blessed
the guitarist of
Doors Robby Krieger
and the drummer
John Densmore
They remember their excitement when he was offered a space in the prestigious show. “There was nothing bigger,” explains Densmore. “Elvis, the Beatles, we … Great! I remember that Mr. Sullivan came to us while we tried and said: ‘Guys you are beautiful when you smile, you should smile'”.

There was little to smile when just 15 minutes from the start of the show, a producer called them in the dressing room and said to the group frontman
Jim Morrison
that should have made a change to the text of
“Light My Fire”
in particular on the verse
“Girl, we couUn Get Much Higher”
since it could be interpreted as an incitement to the use of illegal drugs. Enormously annoyed by this request, the group still agreed to play … at least until the manufacturer was present in the room.

Robby Krieger
Now he says: “To tell the truth I thought they were kidding. Really? I said: Fuck, let’s do it as it should be done”.

So they did and the public from home was not impressed at all. Remember
John Densmore
: “They said, ‘guys you will never make this show again!’ I think Jim said, ‘Well, we just did it, so we don’t care’. ” “No, that was in the film,” says Krieger smiling, referring to the film about the band directed by Oliver Stone in 1991, ‘The Doors’. The AD manufacturers Sullivan Show then informed the band that had been in the predicate to go to the program other times. But faithful to their word, they never invited the doors.