Track Of The Day: The Doors - Riders on the Storm (Elektra)

I’ll always have time for The Doors. I might have been alive in the 60s, but has no idea of their existence being far too young. My earliest memories are those of TV, or better still ,TV and football. I can make out one or two episodes of Patrick Troughton’s ‘Dr Who’ through the ether, with everything crystallising in 1970 with the Mexico World Cup, and that immortal final. Somewhere else though, surfing the sine waves, were The Doors. Was Jim Morrison an irritating drunk? Possibly. He was also a star and a great lyricist. The Doors sold a lot of records and, rather like the Beatles, occupied the best of both worlds for a good few years. ‘Riders On The Storm’ is far from being my favourite track of theirs, but it came into my head while on holiday in Turkey recently and lodged itself there. I would have been 7 when this came out I think. And there’s still no escaping it.