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Loraine Alterman on Pop Records: The Shattering Impact of the Doors

Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 5 November 1967

THE DOORS, with Jim Morrison singing lead in his urgent, compelling voice, lead you into the strange world of their music after the freaky album cover on their second Elektra album, Strange Days, starts you on a journey into a world of alienation where "insanity's horse adorns the sky" and where "I want to hear the scream of the butterfly."

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