During the band’s brief 1966 creative rut, Krieger (encouraged by Morrison) drove home to write The Doors’ No. 1 classic song “Light My Fire,” according to The Los Angeles Times.

“Light My Fire” was released in January 1967 on The Doors’ eponymous debut album and spent three weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It is considered among the first and most essential ...

The Los Angeles home where The Doors guitarist Robby Krieger penned the band’s hit psychedelic rock single “Light My Fire” was destroyed in the Palisades Fire. Krieger — a founding member ...

As previously reported, The Doors are asking fans and radio stations to celebrate the anniversary by playing "Light My Fire" at 7:29 p.m. local time on Saturday.

Saturday August 5, 1967. The hottest hit of the summer, Light My Fire, begins its second week at No.1 on the US Billboard chart. A colossal moment not just for The Doors – the tripped-out, LA ...

The Doors' 1967 single "Light My Fire" is one of the NPR 100, our list of the most significant American musical works of the last century. Guy Raz has the story. "My Favorite Things" ...

In 1967, Robby Krieger, the guitarist for L.A. band the Doors, wrote the hit single "Light My Fire" in the living room of his parents' Pacific Palisades home.

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.

The Doors guitarist Robby Krieger (left foreground) wrote the lyrics to the band’s hit “Light My Fire” in 1966 in his parents’ Alma Real Drive home in Pacific Palisades — a property that ...