Hall of Fame and Museum.
group is in the works. "Break on Through: The Lasting Legacy of the Doors" will be unveiled in May.
Doors," said Jim Henke, the Rock Hall's chief curator. "Their music continues to resonate."
Jim Morrison, including his Cub Scout uniform and various Morrison, a poet in leather pants who often sang of death and sex, died of heart failure in 1971; he was 27.
The future Lizard King, as the Doors' frontman came to be known, was a "bright kid who got good grades," said Henke, who is writing a Morrison biography to be the rest of the band for the exhibit, which will be on view museum. The installation coincides with the 40th anniversary of the Doors, whose self-titled debut album came out in During their heyday in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Doors scored such hits as "Light My Fire," "Hello, I Love You" and "Riders on the Storm." The group was inducted into the Rock Hall in In recent years, the surviving members of the Doors fought in court over the group's legacy.
Drummer John Densmore working together under the Doors' name.
Despite their differences, Densmore, Krieger and Manzarek are expected to attend a ceremony Wednesday, Nov. 8, in Los 'n' roll landmark status upon the Whisky A Go-Go, the Sunset Strip club where the Doors got their start.
outside Cleveland. The museum has bestowed similar historic status on Don King's Corner Tavern, the WEWS Channel 5 originated, Leo's Casino and Brooklyn High School, where Elvis Presley performed in 1955.
As part of the festivities in Los Angeles, Perry Farrell of Doors fans also can look forward to "Perception," a six-CD, six-DVD Doors boxed set due in stores Tuesday, Nov.
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