![]() ![]() Jim said, 'Imagine a kid in Minneapolis hearing even the cut version over the radio, it's going to turn his head around.' So they said, 'Go ahead, release it.' We released it with the full version on the other side." Finally I said to Rothchild, 'Nobody can cut it but you.' When he cut out the solo, there were screams. To many fans, the single edit was an abomination, and many DJs played the album version once the song took off.Įlektra founder Jaz Holzman recalled to Mojo magazine November 2010: "We had that huge problem with the time length - seven-and-a-half minutes. This version was released as a single in April, and the song took off, giving The Doors their first big hit. By chopping out the guitar solos, he whittled it down to 2:52. ![]() Their label, Elektra Records decided to release a shorter version so they had producer Paul Rothchild do an edit. "Light My Fire" was deemed too long for airplay, but radio stations (especially in Los Angeles) got requests for the song from listeners who heard it off the album. The group's first single, " Break On Through (To The Other Side)," reached just #126 in America. On the album, which was released in January 1967, the song runs 6:50. Like all Doors songs of this era, the band shared composer credits. ![]() Drummer John Densmore also contributed, coming up with the rhythm. Krieger came up with the melody and wrote most of the lyrics, which are about leaving inhibitions behind in flames of passion.Īt first, the song had a folk flavor, but it ignited when Jim Morrison wrote the second verse ("our love become a funeral pyre.") and Ray Manzarek came up with the famous organ intro. Something that people can interpret themselves.' I said to myself I'd write about the four elements earth, air, fire, water, I picked fire, as I loved the Stones song, ' Play With Fire,' and that's how that came about." I asked Jim, what should I write about? He said, 'Something universal, which won't disappear two years from now. He recalled to Uncut: "I was living with my parents in Pacific Palisades – I had my amp and SG. 21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.Most of "Light My Fire" was written by Doors guitarist Robby Krieger, who wanted to write about one of the elements: fire, air, earth, and water. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. ![]() For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. 17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 12 No one has ever seen God if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.ġ3 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. ![]()
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