The Doors Original UK Orange Elektra 1st Pressing EX/EX

	£		51
	$		68

THE DOORS - THE DOORS

ORIGINAL 1967 ORANGE ELEKTRA LABEL STEREO ALBUM ORIGINAL WITH FIRST UK ORIGINAL PRE POLYDOR PRESSING ORIGINAL MATT MONO SINGLE SLEEVE WITH ORIGINAL WHITE INNER SLEEVE DATED 67 .

ELEKTRA EKS 4007     

THE MATT SLEEVE IS ONE OF THE VERY LAST TRUE ELEKTRA PRESSING SLEEVES BEFORE ELEKTRA  CONTRACTED POLYDOR TO TAKE OVER THE PRESSINGS AND DISTRIBUTION OF ALL ELEKTRA LPS IN THE UK WHICH THEY DID THROUGHOUT THE 60S AND SO ADDED THE 'POLYDOR RECORDS LIMITED' TEXT TO THE REVERSE OF ALL ELEKTRA COVERS. 

MEGA RARE INITIAL FIRST PRESSING-'DUAL' TYPE COVER WITH BOTH UK ELEKTRA ADDRESS AND US ELEKTRA ADDRESS ON THE REVERSE OF THE COVER. THIS COVER WAS CHANGED IMMEDIATELY AND CHANGED TO A 'POLYDOR RECORDS' CREDIT INSTEAD.

The Doors emerged amid the turbulence of the late Sixties with music that was as intense and complex as the times that spawned them. They derived their name from references to “the doors of perception” in works by William Blake and Aldous Huxley. The group’s dark, brooding personality came largely from singer Jim Morrison. Musically, the other members of the Doors - keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer Jon Densmore - combined classical rigor with freewheeling, jazzy improvisations, providing Morrison a platform from which to declaim his poetical lyrics in a portentous baritone. The source of Morrison’s intensity was addressed in an early interview: “It’s the feeling of a bowstring being pulled back for twenty-two years and suddenly let go.” When they weren’t performing original songs about love, death and the unknown, the Doors would occasionally transform old blues numbers, such as Willie Dixon’s “Back Door Man” and John Lee Hooker’s “Crawling King Snake.”

The Doors formed in the summer of 1965 around Morrison and Manzarek, who’d met at UCLA’s film school. A year later the group signed with Elektra Records, recording six landmark studio LPs and a live album for the label. They achieved popular success and critical acclaim for their 1967 debut, The Doors (which included their eleven-minute epic “The End” and “Light My Fire,” a Number One hit at the height of the Summer of Love), and all the other albums that followed. As the Doors’ career wore on, however, Morrison’s problems with drugs and alcohol resulted in increasingly unpredictable behaviour, culminating in an alleged incident of exposure onstage at a March 1969 concert in Miami. The Doors rebounded from this adversity with one of their finest albums, L.A. Woman, which contained the Top Forty hits “Love Her Madly” and “Riders On the Storm.” After its release, Morrison took a leave of absence from the Doors and moved to Paris, where he died of a heart attack on July 3, 1971.”

Tracks on this classic debut album are BREAK ON THROUGH - SOUL KITCHEN -THE CRYSTAL SHIP - TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX - ALABAMA SONG - LIGHT MY FIRE - BACK DOOR MAN - I LOOKED AT YOU - END OF THE NIGHT - TAKE IT AS IT COMES - THE END.

The VINYL, The Vinyl is in near excellent condition. both visually and audibly. No nasty marks etc, It sounds clear and vibrant, Needless to say it plays free from sticks or skips.    

The SLEEVE, The single sleeve is in very good to excellent condition, showing just the lightest wear along the bottom and some wear to the spine. Needless to say there are no unwanted names or splits etc.

The LABELS, The textured orange labels are nice. Needless to say there are no unwanted stickers or unwanted writing etc.

The white poly lined inner is the original which came with this album when it was purchased back in 67, and has 67  printed along the bottom. it is quite yellowed with a small one inch split, otherwise free from  unwanted writing etc 

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